Up and about
Lorraine and I up and about late and after breakfast walked down to London Road caught a train and went for a wander around Lewes. Lurking in the lovely Southover Grange Gardens, and then nosing about in a few shops. I bought a couple of teeshirts on sale from Fatface, and then a booklet for a £1 about Guernsey published in 1964, featuring for me nostalgic colour pictures of The Sarnia mailboat, that we travelled on many times, as well a photo of BEA Vickers Viscounts in the airport.
Back home briefly where we joined forces with Beth and caught a bus into town, where we met Rachel and Andrew, and their daughters Hattie and Libby by the pier, and had an Indian meal with them. Lorraine is Hattie's Godmother. I liked Rachel and Andrew a good deal, having only met them briefly before, and the girls were full of personality. Rachel had taught both Sam and Beth when they were little. Hattie had recently been to China, and told us about seeing pandas, staying with a family there, and the scariness of shopping in a market where the market people were dropping things into one of the party's bags, to accuse them of stealing, or buying chop sticks which turned out to be different sizes. Fond farewells then Lorraine, Beth and I popped into The Bath Arms before Betty went off to meet Laura and her Irish cousins and head off to a club.
Slightly annoying journey home for Lorraine and I as our bus not listed despite us having bought return tickets we caught a cab instead. Watched the bus sail past us while the cabbie took the wrong route home. Still, home safely and a rather good day, and one away from computer screens which was rather good.
A view of Southover Grange Gardens in Lewes.
Back home briefly where we joined forces with Beth and caught a bus into town, where we met Rachel and Andrew, and their daughters Hattie and Libby by the pier, and had an Indian meal with them. Lorraine is Hattie's Godmother. I liked Rachel and Andrew a good deal, having only met them briefly before, and the girls were full of personality. Rachel had taught both Sam and Beth when they were little. Hattie had recently been to China, and told us about seeing pandas, staying with a family there, and the scariness of shopping in a market where the market people were dropping things into one of the party's bags, to accuse them of stealing, or buying chop sticks which turned out to be different sizes. Fond farewells then Lorraine, Beth and I popped into The Bath Arms before Betty went off to meet Laura and her Irish cousins and head off to a club.
Slightly annoying journey home for Lorraine and I as our bus not listed despite us having bought return tickets we caught a cab instead. Watched the bus sail past us while the cabbie took the wrong route home. Still, home safely and a rather good day, and one away from computer screens which was rather good.
A view of Southover Grange Gardens in Lewes.
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