Eastbourne interlude

Breakfast with Maureen and Pat, cereal and white toast with a molecule deep covering of Steve's  mirabelle jam. Off then after an interlude of getting ready, to Eastbourne. It's a lovely drive glimpsing the sea, over the water at Cuckmere Haven, passing Friston Forest and up towards Beachy Head and over with a view over Pevensy Bay of Eastbourne and Hastings in the distance. A spot of shopping in C&H fabrics -- a great favourite of Maureen's, which is sadly closing. 

Then across the road to Starbucks to have a cup of coffee (as the cafe in C&H had been closed down already). Arrived moments before it began raining enormously. When this abated I hared off to M&S to buy some ready meals, and then we all mooched off to Eastbourne station. I noticed this time that Starbucks, which I went to lots in Brighton as it was a good place to write, has grim coffee. 

Some confusion about which part of the train was going where. Maureen called the platform manager Sunshine! to get his attention which made me laugh. Fond farewells and we watched their train slip back off towards Ashford.

We stopped at Waitrose. Some freesias in there. The smell taking me immediately to Guernsey. We bought a few of them to take up to Mum tomorrow, and a sprig for ourselves. Then home, to sort out the house a bit, after our days of visitors, and also enjoy it just being us at home for the first time in a while. 

Anton called and we arranged to meet up on New Year's Day. We very much liked his reasoning, that he liked celebrating the beginning of a new year, not the ending of an old one.