Beach Life

Life's a beach - or something like that.  With another beautiful morning forecast we decided to head down to the seafront for a leisurely breakfast.

It really was too nice a day to sit at home with a bowl of porridge. The signal went up on the Facebook group and the whole of the Sonning Crew responded. Breakfast was "go".

WE gathered just after 0900 and took a couple of cars and headed to a car park in the centre on Bognor, then strolled down to the beach and took a lovely walk eastwards towards Middleton (passing the Butlins complex).

Round the corner, tucked in a sheltered spot is "The Lobster Pot". Even at this time it was getting busy, but we were early enough that we managed to get a table and didn't have to queue too long to submit our orders.

The Gorse Fox had the big breakfast (bacon, sausage, egg, toast, baked beans) and the Silver Vixen had avocado and smoked salmon on a muffin topped with poached eggs. This was all accompanied by lashings of coffee and tea. The perfect start to a sunny Sunday morning.

When we got home the Silver Vixen was on a mission. The lavender shrubs that had lined the path to our door "had to go". So it was that with hedge trimmer, dust sheets, fork, and spade we spent the next hour or three removing the old shrubs and disposing of them at the tip, then turning over the soil that was left and digging in some compost. New planting is planned... but that can wait for another day.

While we were out the front we met a new neighbour. The house opposite us has been a "Show House" for the last couple of years but has now been sold and a nice lady has moved in while we were away in Guernsey. We had a nice chat and gave her the low down on the area and the neighbours (after all, she needs to be warned!).

Chatting with neighbours seemed to become the theme for the early afternoon. Once we did finish clearing away we had a quiet hour in the back garden, listening to the rill, and enjoying a glass of wine or rum.