Eastbourne Redoubt

If Napoleon had ever landed an invasion force on the Pevensey Levels he'd have found himself being irritated by the guns and garrison of the Eastbourne Redoubt- a fortress built on the western flank of Pevensey Bay in 1805. The Redoubt is circular and partially buried- with its main rooms and parade ground below ground level and only its gun platform exposed. It remained in the hands of the military- and was put to various uses by them- until after the Second World War.









The building now houses a military museum- and entrance to the parade ground and gun platform is free. The original guns have long since been dispersed and scrapped and the ones that now fill the embrasures are a job lot- scrounged from various sources and most of them very much smaller.

I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream For Ice Cream

The heat wave faded away and since then the weather has been much more the sort of thing one expects from April- ie patchy and changeable. Yesterday we went to Eastbourne and it was mostly cloudy, with sunny intervals as the afternoon wore on- but warm enough for us to sit out on the pavement and eat Italian ice-cream. "Ice-cream unites the generations," said Ailz. And that's true. In recent years I've lost my appetite for most sweet things but show me a shop selling "real" ice-cream- and I'll swerve from the direction in which I'm headed and go buy some. We had three scoops each. Mine were ginger, strawberry and lemon sorbet.