Roaming

[poliphilo]

Ever since Kent and Sussex were put in separate tiers we've been very "good" about not crossing the county border- even though it passes quite close to where we live and is only a line on a map- but now that the whole of the South East is in tier 4 we feel free to roam. Yesterday we visited our favourite farm shop, then carried on down the A21 to Hastings- where we ate our picnic lunch under the cliffs in the car park at the end of Rock-a-nore road, looking out to sea while some ever hopeful gulls came and perched on the bonnet and looked in at us through the windscreen.



I'm very fond of gulls. I love the way they talk. I love their little knobbly knees.

Hastings didn't look much like a town in tier 4. There were plenty of people on the streets. The food shops were all open, of course, and if the food shops are open (as they have to be) I don't see that very much is gained by shutting down the others. It just puts money in Jeff Bezos's already bulging pockets. Sometimes- in my more alternative moments- I wonder whether that isn't exactly the point.

Comments

[cmcmck]

Snooty buggers so they are! :o)

[poliphilo]

They gotta lorra attitude.

[samissam]

Ha! That gull :)

[poliphilo]

There were two of them- and they stayed in position until we started up the engine and began to move off.

[sovay]

while some ever hopeful gulls came and perched on the bonnet and looked in at us through the windscreen.

That's a wonderfully characterful gull.

[qatsi]

Similarly, we couldn't go from West Berkshire to Silchester in Hampshire on Christmas Day for a walk, but we could on Boxing Day.