As Loud As A Real Tornado

 "Pity they don't have volume control on those things," said Ailz,  as Airbourne- the Eastbourne air show- entered its second day. "Is it the Red Arrows again?"

I went out into the garden and caught a distant glimpse of a silver machine stood on its nose as it dived towards the sea. "Just a single plane," I said.

Ailz consulted the online programme. "It's an RAF Tornado" she said.

 "What?" I  said.  "Can't hear you for the noise".

 The soundwaves coming off that thing were almost palpable. A real tornado could hardly have been louder....

 The reason it wasn't the Arrows is that it costs £20,000 a day to hire them- and Eastbourne is a bit strapped for cash these days- with half its income from the Council Tax going on housing homeless people and refugeees.

I'm all for housing people, but shouldn't the money for it be coming from some sort of central fund?

And I think back to a conversation we had earlier this summer with a gardener who was putting bedding plants in the long flower beds down by the pier. "Could be the last year we'll be doing this," he said. "Shortage of funds." 

ECMOD

 Just round the corner from here is a little street we go down on our way back from the big Tesco. It's name- Ecmod Rd- has been baffling us, because Ecmod isn't a name or a word in any language.

Must be an acronym, we thought.

So this morning we were trying to work it out. Our best guess was Eastbourne Council Modern Overspill Development- which would fit the area..

Not too shabby, but wrong.

Ailz did a search on line and found that the street had been built over the yard where they used to park the buses a hundred years back- and ECMOD stands for Eastbourne Corporation Municipal Omnibus Depot.

Picture Diary 50

 Some more Pictures

1. Thank you, Sir, the maid will show you out....



2 Harlequinade



3. Long trousers at last!



4. Organised religion



5. David's early morning cuppa