Friday, September 16, 2011
People at Littlehampton and things.
Today has been routine - with a few preparations begun for Thailand trip.
Bill's first job of the day was to order up car parts. How very annoying it was yesterday morning to return to our car at Ford yesterday to see the wheels looking very black and ugly.
Somebody had removed all the wheel trims and taken them away.
We can't be absolutely certain it happened whilst the car was parked. Just maybe, it had happened over night, outside the house and we hadn't noticed first thing in the morning.
Then we went into town. Bill wanted to get some money sorted for Thailand. We get less and less baht each year.
I bought one or two books for the Thai grandchildren in the Crawley charity shops.
We also popped into a new supermarket in the town centre. There are foreign foods of all kinds and a really good green grocery department.
I have begun writing up things that I bought yesterday - but seemed to get distracted easily.
Earlier on I watched the last big athletics meeting of the year from Belgium.
Here are a few pictures from yesterday in Littlehampton.
The first two were taken from our table in The Balaton. It was such a lovely day that our hosts were spending time sitting out in the sun by the river, with a cup of coffee.
Mrs Balaton.
Mr and Mrs Balaton. George does all the cooking.
After our meal we walked by the river.
We stopped to look at a parked car - abundantly decorated.
Well, this sporty BMW must belong to some flashy boy racer.
Actually do note that the owner didn't drive with the largest of the pictures in that position.
He wasn't that stupid!
And here is our "boy" racer, chatting to Bill about the merits of the engine.
He is one of life's characters - he loves rock and roll and dancing.
The car was spotless. Both the body work and under the bonnet.
It was high tide.
A little further along the river we stopped and talked again.
Just a simple comment about the lovely weather led to us sharing life histories with a couple. The wife was in a wheelchair and happy to be so, for she had come back from the brink after suffering a stroke.
Then we went to sit on the pier.
We were not the only photographers at work. A group of young people were busy with some fine looking Nikons - students sent out to get their eyes working.
Good! Glad to see that she could see the interesting patterns in the piles of plastic toys outside one of the seafront kiosks.
We have photographed them several times.
Talking of photography, we have enrolled in a photography day in Thailand.
Jamie will be doing it too.
It is part of something called Worldwide Photowalk.
It will be in old Phuket Town on the day of one of the big processions of the vegetarian festival.
Read all about it......
http://www.thephuketnews.com/wp-post.php?id=26854
We didn't drive straight home from Littlehampton. We phoned Bill's cousin Pat and asked if we could call in.
It was good to stop and have a cup of tea with Pat and Pete.
I'm not sure what we will be doing over the weekend - depends on the weather.
Bill's first job of the day was to order up car parts. How very annoying it was yesterday morning to return to our car at Ford yesterday to see the wheels looking very black and ugly.
Somebody had removed all the wheel trims and taken them away.
We can't be absolutely certain it happened whilst the car was parked. Just maybe, it had happened over night, outside the house and we hadn't noticed first thing in the morning.
Then we went into town. Bill wanted to get some money sorted for Thailand. We get less and less baht each year.
I bought one or two books for the Thai grandchildren in the Crawley charity shops.
We also popped into a new supermarket in the town centre. There are foreign foods of all kinds and a really good green grocery department.
I have begun writing up things that I bought yesterday - but seemed to get distracted easily.
Earlier on I watched the last big athletics meeting of the year from Belgium.
Here are a few pictures from yesterday in Littlehampton.
The first two were taken from our table in The Balaton. It was such a lovely day that our hosts were spending time sitting out in the sun by the river, with a cup of coffee.
Mr and Mrs Balaton. George does all the cooking.
After our meal we walked by the river.
We stopped to look at a parked car - abundantly decorated.
Well, this sporty BMW must belong to some flashy boy racer.
Actually do note that the owner didn't drive with the largest of the pictures in that position.
He wasn't that stupid!
He is one of life's characters - he loves rock and roll and dancing.
The car was spotless. Both the body work and under the bonnet.
A little further along the river we stopped and talked again.
Just a simple comment about the lovely weather led to us sharing life histories with a couple. The wife was in a wheelchair and happy to be so, for she had come back from the brink after suffering a stroke.
Then we went to sit on the pier.
We were not the only photographers at work. A group of young people were busy with some fine looking Nikons - students sent out to get their eyes working.
Good! Glad to see that she could see the interesting patterns in the piles of plastic toys outside one of the seafront kiosks.
We have photographed them several times.
Talking of photography, we have enrolled in a photography day in Thailand.
Jamie will be doing it too.
It is part of something called Worldwide Photowalk.
It will be in old Phuket Town on the day of one of the big processions of the vegetarian festival.
Read all about it......
http://www.thephuketnews.com/wp-post.php?id=26854
We didn't drive straight home from Littlehampton. We phoned Bill's cousin Pat and asked if we could call in.
It was good to stop and have a cup of tea with Pat and Pete.
I'm not sure what we will be doing over the weekend - depends on the weather.
