Monday 5th October 2020 Day 195

7.00  After a very late night for no reason other than I just didn’t get around to going to bed, I have slept the whole night through and can’t believe what the time is.  Perhaps very late nights are the answer to a good night’s sleep.

I could see that the weekend was going to be fairly dismal with the wind rain and grey outside and I had no plans, so on Saturday morning I decided to brave the elements and go for a walk along the shore at Pevensey .

12.00  Saturday  I parked up a side road and Audrey and I set off for our bracing walk.  In fact what happened was the weather cleared, the sun came out and the quite rough sea looked wonderful in the sunshine.  A couple of people braved the water for a swim. There were few people around but I climbed over one groyne and there was a young couple sea fishing, we got chatting and the girl said she had only caught one small fish which she proceeded to take out of a bag to show me, holding it up by the tail fin.  Suddenly from out of nowhere, Audrey appeared, grabbed the fish and ran off and I nearly died of embarrassment. Luckily the girl found it hilarious and didn’t mind at all.  After a rather ungainly game of ‘catch me if you can’, I managed to retrieve the undamaged fish and return I to its owner.  I took a wide berth round any more fishing people we saw.

Further on and there were no people to be seen at all, just houses at the top of the shingle and as I stepped over another groyne, I spied an iphone which in about ten seconds was about to be swamped by the sea so I grabbed it up.  Nothing I could do because it was locked and asking for a password, no one to ask because no one was near, so we carried on our walk and half way back the phone started ringing.  It was the owner’s partner trying to locate it and by coincidence I was walking right by the house she was phoning from.  The phone was restored but if I hadn’t happened to be there at the moment before the sea took it, he wouldn’t have got it back.  Funny that I decided to go out on the spur of the moment and happened to be at that very spot in the nick of time.

The high tide mark was drawn by thousands of mussel shells.  I wonder how that came to be?

14.15   Today I went down to see my son and exchange wax polish for my husband’s rifle which has sat in a cupboard for several years.  My son has chickens in the garden and sadly chickens mean rats and the rats have killed several of the chickens in an unspeakable way so it has to be traps and air rifle if any need for finishing off quickly.  The wax polish is for the table I sanded.  I wonder if the barter system might come back if it becomes difficult to source things in the difficult times ahead?