Busy, busy, busy, formatting the garden, watering visitors and expecting a new paperback… only time for a little local stroll and perhaps a coffee. Enjoy a wander.
Is it going to rain? No, it’s always sunny in Southbourne-on-Sea.
Local volunteers have been busy planting.
Outside, inside or on the roof…
Yummy, picnic time, wonder what they sell? Answer at the end.
There is always someone watching you…
Answer – the funeral directors…
Where did you stop for coffee?
Times and Tides of a Beachwriter 
Looks like a good community spirit is maintained there. Hugs
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Hello David, yes lots of independent traders and motivated locals.
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That was a nice little wander. Thank you!
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Glad you enjoyed it Liz.
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I’m sure I must have been to Southbourne-on-Sea at sometime, but can’t remember if, or when. I certainly had some outlaws not far away when the kids were small were small. Your photos make it look charming anyway!
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It’s twenty one years this week since we moved here and it was nice then, but you couldn’t find anywhere to have dinner! Since then it has flourished with lots of independent traders and no end of choice for coffee.
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We spent Sunday troll hunting in Denmark.
We found two trolls, but no coffee houses, so we brewed up ourselves!
You can find the trolls on https://trollmap.com/. They are all over the world, although they started in Denmark!
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I have a cute tiny troll given me by the Aussie relatives who came to England via the whole of Scandinavia!
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Wonderful!
When I was a kid, I had one of those small cute trolls with brightly coloured hair. I think they are from Denmark – they were quite the thing in the 1970s!
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Glorious floral displays
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Yes Sheree, they seem to have been good this year.
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They did a great job with ‘In bloom’. Lovely displays. I would have had to ask why the funeral company thought that window display was appropriate!
Best wishes, Pete.
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Hello Pete, I have seen other local shopping parades where the funeral directors looks like a florist and the florist looks like a funeral directors!
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Wonderful floral displays, Janet it looks lovely there I don’t think I have visited there it doesn’t ring a bell but its very well kept 🙂 x
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Hello Carol, yes someone must have been busy watering, it’s been so dry here. My friend who came to stay was impressed with the display.
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That’s some task unless they have an automated watering system but either way the flowers are spectacular 🙂 x
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Hi Janet, coffee at the funeral directors – nope, I haven’t done that yet. Your pictures are gorgeous.
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Thanks Robbie, no I haven’t dropped into the funeral director’s yet. The Ludo Lounge is my favourite.
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That sounds lovely.
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Thanks for the stroll. Those purple double rows of flowers are stunning. 🙂
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Yes Debby, pretty petunias.
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I didn’t see Starbucks, so I stopped at Costa Coffee!
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Yes I thought I saw you sitting in the sun chatting to the locals.
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I really stuck out like a sore thumb!
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Lol, those rain clouds at the start looked determined…great that the weather did a U-turn.
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Yes Cherryl the sky is ever changing.
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