Making Waves

 It had been very windy overnight. The garden furniture had rearranged itself all round the garden and a storage box had made its way to the side gate. Having said that, it was dry. Ellie and the Gorse Fox had a quiet 45 minutes before the others emerged, but then the day swung into action.

In the morning there were some domestic chores to clear and then the Gorse Fox had to sort out the advanced part-payment for the hard-landscaping due to start in a couple of weeks. This was all very fine but he had forgotten the PIN for his online banking. (He tends to use mobile banking now, and has forgotten the golden numbers!) He went through the process of resetting the account rather than risk locking it out by trying half remembered numbers at random. That done, the payment was made without incident.

In the afternoon, the Gorse Fox decided that a walk was needed. He dug out an old audio book and set off into the bright sunshine. It had been over a year since he had last listened to the first part of the book, but it only took a couple of moments for the story to come flooding back to him. He was obviously quite engrossed because he remembers almost nothing of the first part of the walk where he made his way down to Bognor Regis, through the town, and onto the promenade.

The wind was very strong and the sea had been whipped up. It was quite breathtaking as it smashed against the shingle. As the Gorse Fox turned west the force of the wind was directly in his face and was strong enough to slow his pace significant.  He carried on along the prom, past Marine Gardens. There were places where the sea had over-topped the wall and scattered shingle on the promenade.

At West Fields/Park, he turned back out of the wind and up towards Aldwick and West Meads. Then, he looped back to home. It was about 8.5 kms altogether and had been thoroughly enjoyable. What's more, the audio book was beginning to get interesting! He looks forward to his next walk.

Late afternoon, Cousteau-Cub and the Coventry Hobbit popped in to see us. She was on her way back from the chiropractor but wanted to show her face before the lockdown begins. It was nice to see them, and nice to see that she was a lot more mobile than last week.