Enjoy the Christmas lights with Storm Bram
Bournemouth Pier
Pier Approach
Nobody wants to knock the elf off the shelf.
This way for more fun…
Elves on strike
Just time to dash across the road before a bus comes along.
Be careful, The Square ( that’s round ) is very slippery when wet. Now you can slip into the Alpine Bar.
Where might you see this mural? Answer further along...
Where might this lead?
Is this art?
Is there a painting hiding here?
If you emerge at low tide from the sea, what will you see?
Nearly finished…
Pity the bins are in the way!
https://www.facebook.com/people/Miroslav-Lucan-LucanArt-/100063777633781/
Where is your favourite place to see art?
Wander down here, look left, then turn right.
Can you spot the landmark that you can see for miles around? Answers at the end of your walk.
Plenty to do along the way.
Which famous poet sat here and wrote while convalescing? Answer at the end.
Which direction is he pointing? Answer later…
It’s low tide, how far out will you dare wander?
What building are you looking at? Answer in a forthcoming blog.
Turn around and who do you see?
Find out in the next blog.
Who is this lady and what is she looking at?
The landmark you can see for miles around.
‘Arlington House is an 18-storey residential apartment and commercial block in the Brutalist style on the seafront of Margate, Kent, England, next to Margate railway station and Dreamland Margate. It was developed by Bernard Sunley and designed by Russel Diplock, and is known for every apartment having a sea view.’
T S Eliot wrote The Wasteland while sitting in the Nayland Rock Shelter
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47311/the-waste-land
The soldier nearby is pointing north across the Thames Estuary.
The Lady is Mrs Booth, JW Turner’s landlady.
https://www.visitthanet.co.uk/attractions/mrs-booth-shell-lady-113494/
I have been away from the Blogosphere and dipping into real life. Here are some surreal pictures which should hopefully give you no idea where I have been and what new things I may have discovered. Let us know if you can guess any clues.
How you imagine Beach Hut Life.
It’s better with the sound effects of howling wind – when you realise you might not be going for a swim today…
Don’t lean on the fence to look over…
WHOOPS…
But the sun is still shining…
…and you can have a paddle.
Smooth sand and rough sea
Perfect weather for some…
We had an evening photography club shoot at my beach hut and were lucky enough to see the mythical White Goat.
And a treasure hunter who was obviously looking in the wrong spot for a pot of gold.
What are you preferred beach activities?
Things you only do with visitors
Drive into town.
Chat to strangers
Chat to Fishes
Run around on the beach
Eat SWEET Stuff
Go to Brickfest
Take a Ride
WHAT DO YOUR VISITORS LIKE TO DO OR WHAT DO YOU LIKE TO DO WITH YOUR VISITORS?
Visitors departed, back to normal transmission soon.
Summer break with visitors…. who knows what might appear on my blogs…
When your pansies get angry…
I didn’t even know you could get a kit for making pine martens.
He just wants a hug.
‘One for sorrow’ – this magpie knows the old rhyme.
Helpful advice when you buy a new lightweight folding chair. Don’t stand on it naked.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split_Fiction
If you play games, have you heard of Split Fiction? Cyberson explained it to me and we watched a video clip – half my family love playing it. The story premise must have been thought up by an Indie author. Two writers have been invited along to a publishing house to get their first book published. But the plan is to put each writer in a bubble and steal their ideas. Something goes wrong and two writers end up in the same bubble and find themselves in each other’s novels… so far so interesting, but I lost the plot when they turned into sausages!? Tell us if you have actually played.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Pandemonica-Janet-Gogerty-ebook/dp/B0FJJBD5PK/
What on earth might this be about?
More mishaps in self publishing coming soon….
Goats keep the vegetation under control on the cliff.
Fish and chips
Queue for ice creams
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Local artist Miroslav Lucan
Portrait by Mathew Byrom of Southbourne Metal Detectorist hero Darren Wiles.
https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/24340520.bournemouth-metal-detectorist-suprised-beach-art/
Primary school leavers jump in the sea in their school uniforms to celebrate the end of the school year.
Time to leave the beach…
Hop off the bus and walk up to the West Cliff.
Stop to catch your breath and admire the view.
Onwards and upwards
Highcliff Hotel, popular with politicians attending party conferences.
Not another mermaid tail!
Time to go down to the beach.
Take the cliff lift…
…or perhaps not…
Follow in the footsteps of our leaders as they walk from their hotel to the Bournemouth International Centre.
Look for another mermaid tail.
This is your clue where to see the gathering of all the mermaid tails before they are auctioned off.
Times and Tides of a Beachwriter 