A few nights in Bexhill on Sea.

Our lovely room with its four poster bed.

2 wash hand basins

and a huge shower.

We stayed at the Buenos Aires Guest House, where we were made very welcome and well looked after. Its perhaps 5 mins walking from the station and possibly as much as 2 mins from the beach. In other words - perfect!

Pebbles and Shelley

Pebbles and Shelley belong to our B&B hosts. Pebbles is less than a year old and his mother,Shelley,is 11 years old

Shelley is a Persian cat. She sat on my knee through out breakfast on our last morning.By the time I had finished my croissant, she was covered in crumbs - her long coat would need serious grooming. This is the first time in all 40 years of our married life that a cat has chosen to sit on my knee, rather than Brian's!

Some random flowers

Its amazing that anything grows in such sandy, windy, foreshore conditions.

Around the town

A blackbird taking a stroll.


















Snapdragons




















Houses near the sea front with a Dutch feel to them. (Our lovely landlady was Dutch)















Asleep in the window of a hairdresser's shop. Usually its cats you see in this position.

More on the promenade...

This is a minimalist model of the racing car which won the first ever formula one race. The stone at the bottom marks the finishing line. The race was in 1902, and was the first international car race in Britain.

Seen through a glass darkly...

Two ladies enjoying a cup of coffee outside a cafe on the beach walk towards Hastings.
This stone marks the finishing line of the race, but I took the photo because I like the lichen which grows in various places here.

On the prom...

Amazing what you do when you're away from home and think no one you know is watching!

A new roof for this beach hut ready for the summer we hope we have.

The same shelter going - coming back. (It was us that moved, not the shelter)

More of the beach...

We saw lots of lovely dogs out walking, including a beautiful greyhound called

Prince who was a champion runner in his day.
I took photos of anyone wearing red or pink, or with a ping buggy...

Sights on the beach last week...

Random birds, random humans - apart from the intrepid photographer!

Lemon Sponge Pudding

Last week my good friend, Moggie, gave me two lemons to use up, as she was going away for the week. I completely forgot that I was going away too!
Needing to use the lemons quickly, I remembered a recipe given to me by my mother in law, Katherine Irene Mann. I can hardly read the recipe in my splattered notebook, but here it is.
Ingredients
5ozs caster sugar
2ozs SR flour
2ozs butter
2 separated eggs
2 lemons
1cup of milk
Method
Cream butter and sugar
Beat juice and rind of the 2 lemons along with the egg YOLKS only. Add milk to this mixture
At this stage, beat the egg whites 'to peaks' and add to the mixture after the flour
Fold in the flour
Add egg whites
Put mixture in an oven proof dish
Put this dish in a second one with some water in it.
Bake for about 45mins in a hot oven.
During baking the lemon sauce sinks to the bottom while the sponge bakes at the top.
You can see the separated layers in this photo.
You can see here how delicious it is!
The first 2 photos were taken by Evie on my camera - a Panasonic TZ6
I took the last one. Sorry to make you one eyed Evie!

HMS Illustrious

Yesterday we went to Greenwich to see this huge aircraft carrier. I say huge, but one man told me they make them twice as large these days! I think this was my best photo with the Swiss Re (Gherkin) in the background,

The fly past consisted of Merlin, Sea King and Lynx helicopters, then some fixed wing planes - can't remember what they were. They were celebrating 100 years of the Fleet Air Arm.

Our departing view as we walked along the Thames Path. You can see the hillside behind the Royal Naval College in the background. The Royal Observatory is just off to the right.

We were nearly opposite Canary Wharf when we stopped to take this photo - the camera was zoomed in at 12x. 4 helicopters had just passed us and landed on the deck - you can see them lined up in front of the funnels.

This last one was taken from the same place, then cropped in Picassa. Not a bad camera, my new one!

National Scrapbooking Day - May 2nd

I decided to celebrate by doing some painting in the garden - I am running low on cardstock. The green is an experiment with the top layer of a napkin. I saw it in a blog mentioned on UKS, the blog is called Waltzing through Life.
Notice that I am well away from the scaffolding and the piles of sticks which you can see on Evie's blog.

And here is Evie celebrating National Scrapbooking Day by reading the latest Scrapbook Inspirations.