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  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Sarfend was our nearest glimpse of the sea,  a trip out every year to see the lights,  Peter Pans playground and a few rides in the Kursaal.
    I loved the pier,  longest in the world,  a mile,  walk down,  train back.  Lovely day out. 


    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    Most people seem to be staying in the shade. Look at the colour of that sea. Porthmeor beach St Ives.
    (Photo courtesy of Aspects holidays)

  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    This was on the coast road where daughter cycled yesterday.




    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    I think I just saw a bumblebee burst into flames. :#
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • steveTusteveTu Posts: 3,219
    Did anyone see the Devon/Cornwall walk with Portillo? He went to a private beach called Blackpool Sands near Dartmouth. Lovely looking place.
    I was dragged up in Brighton and had to put up with the crowds there - although as a kid in the 60's it was a treat to take your flippers and a car innertube to the beach and be smothered in lanolin 'to help you tan better'. Hmmmm. Then covered in calamine lotion in the evening to stop the burning. Even more hmmmm. If we were lucky we may even have gone to Black Rock outdoor pool.

    UK - South Coast Retirement Campus (East)
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    My parents were farmers and we lived near the coast  … but summer meant harvest …

    ’Ma … can we go to the seaside?’

    ’Yes … if it rains.’ 🤣 


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • floraliesfloralies Posts: 2,718
    We used to spend a lot of holidays in South Devon when we were kids. No matter what the weather we had to go on the beach come cold, rain and wind. I remember my swimming costume was thick cotton with shirring elastic around the chest and it tied up at the back of the neck. It was the worst thing to try and undo when wet and cold and shivering even inside one of those long robe things made out of two towels and done up at the neck to keep your modesty intact. 
    No wonder I hate sitting on a beach now  B)
  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    Blackpool Sands is beautiful @steveTu. Across the road are some gardens worth a look as well.
    https://www.blackpoolsands.co.uk/blackpool-gardens/
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Me too @floralies tho it was Abersoch and, before that, Butlins at Pwllheli and Filey which I loathed.   Years of sand in my sandwiches and being cold and wet or hot and sunburned have put me off beach holidays.

    Here we have lovely long sandy beaches just 20kms away - great for walkies when the tourist season is over.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Well who’d a’thunk it … no safe outside space … wonder why …?

    Could it be …

    https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/weather/norfolk-heatwave-july-18-school-closures-9149918. 

    🙄 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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