Saturday, January 03, 2009

Friday 2nd January 2009- A much quieter day

After a busy few days it was nice to have the time to sort out the house, clean the BBQ etc after the party and sort out leftover food for later use or dumping.

I must say in retrospect that the steaks were excellent and also the Lamb Roast which had been marinated and tasted really good.

It is quite warm again today and there are many people on the beach and also swimming in the sea whilst tents are springing up in places where you think they should not be allowed. I am not sure of the regulations surrounding this but it would appear that if there is open ground, even land waiting for sale, its fair game to put up your tent or park your RV or motor home.

We actually saw an English-made Bailey Ranger Caravan the other day in a petrol station, so I jokingly said “How long did it take you to drive the caravan from Bristol? (That’s where they are made). Unfortunately his sense of humour was lacking, perhaps the mother in law was there in the car with them, and he sort of smiled and said nothing.

Anyway, back to today and we did our usual walk along the beach and watched a Chinese couple trying to launch a small blow up boat with an outboard motor through the incoming waves without success. Perhaps they did not realise that about 700 yards down the beach is a proper boat ramp which would have made it easy for them, however we watched them for about 20 minutes and scoffed at the attempt and finally left them to it. Perhaps we should have mentioned the boat ramp.

Tonight we shall have for dinner the leftover steak and lamb, but that is where I started this blog.

We watched the first Daniel Craig James Bond film on TV called ‘Casino Royale’ and then hit the sack.