Thursday, January 03, 2013
Littlehampton double pleasures.
A walk creates so much pleasure.....I have enjoyed it twice over today.
This morning we walked at Littlehampton and this afternoon I played with photographs. I had never really explore what the Picasa photo programme can do, but today I began to learn.
Picasa is free - so that is a big advantage of Photo Shop.
The first hour or so of our day was spent at Ford. It was so good to be pushing my trolley around again and trying to fill it with interesting items.
Then we went to breakfast....a bit disappointing really, but I hadn't the heart to grumble.
Anna (they wear name badges) was working alone - behind the bar, taking food orders, carrying plates to customers, clearing and cleaning tables. She managed it all with such a good heart.
The on duty manager shouldn't have been there at all - he looked quite ill. He certainly couldn't cope with work.
I don't know if they truly didn't have eggs benedict available or if Anna and the cook had worked out that it would be best not to complicate things and they opted for a reduced menu.
We had the standard breakfast.
Anna served us and apologised that there were no tomatoes. If another member of staff came in, she would go out and buy some.
How could I complain? Anna was doing her very best and in a very pleasant way.
Time then for a walk - and photographs.
We walked along the High Street - bought new shoe laces which we both need and a good pastry brush for brushing a frying pan with oil, which will cut down calorie intake.
Then we walked down to the sea.
I have seen a scruffy narrow back alley a few times and it tempted me to point my camera down it.
What a bonus to have the little cat glaring at me - totally unused to people invading his space.
Then it was time to experiment with seaweed pictures.
There flowers attached to fences on both sides of the river.
We have heard of people ending their lives in that river more than once.
You may recall pictures of the water in he estuary - once somebody has jumped in, it would be very difficult to survive.
But the sea was very gentle today.
Bill just played....standing on large pebbles and spinning round.
We just caught a glimpse of a weakly shining sun.
Having eaten a good breakfast, we dined this evening on soup.
The vegetables were very cheap. There is somebody at Ford who acquires vegetables just passed their sell by date and sells them at 2 bags for a pound.
I used some for the soup - red onions, carrots and celery....with s few lentils too.
This morning we walked at Littlehampton and this afternoon I played with photographs. I had never really explore what the Picasa photo programme can do, but today I began to learn.
Picasa is free - so that is a big advantage of Photo Shop.
The first hour or so of our day was spent at Ford. It was so good to be pushing my trolley around again and trying to fill it with interesting items.
Then we went to breakfast....a bit disappointing really, but I hadn't the heart to grumble.
Anna (they wear name badges) was working alone - behind the bar, taking food orders, carrying plates to customers, clearing and cleaning tables. She managed it all with such a good heart.
The on duty manager shouldn't have been there at all - he looked quite ill. He certainly couldn't cope with work.
I don't know if they truly didn't have eggs benedict available or if Anna and the cook had worked out that it would be best not to complicate things and they opted for a reduced menu.
We had the standard breakfast.
Anna served us and apologised that there were no tomatoes. If another member of staff came in, she would go out and buy some.
How could I complain? Anna was doing her very best and in a very pleasant way.
Time then for a walk - and photographs.
We walked along the High Street - bought new shoe laces which we both need and a good pastry brush for brushing a frying pan with oil, which will cut down calorie intake.
Then we walked down to the sea.
I have seen a scruffy narrow back alley a few times and it tempted me to point my camera down it.
What a bonus to have the little cat glaring at me - totally unused to people invading his space.
Then it was time to experiment with seaweed pictures.
There flowers attached to fences on both sides of the river.
We have heard of people ending their lives in that river more than once.
You may recall pictures of the water in he estuary - once somebody has jumped in, it would be very difficult to survive.
But the sea was very gentle today.
We just caught a glimpse of a weakly shining sun.
Having eaten a good breakfast, we dined this evening on soup.
The vegetables were very cheap. There is somebody at Ford who acquires vegetables just passed their sell by date and sells them at 2 bags for a pound.
I used some for the soup - red onions, carrots and celery....with s few lentils too.
