Various Things
Nov. 15th, 2024 09:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphilo I walked down to the Meeting House- as I like to do when the weather isn't too unfriendly- and left myself plenty of time so I could take the slightly longer route along the prom. At the corner by the Eastbourne Redoubt was a great hill of sand and stone with a caterpillar-tracked excavator perched on top- and all that part of the beach is cordoned off. The tides keep reshaping the coastline, moving material from south-east to north-west, and we keep having to put it back the way it was. If we didn't the town would flood....
The Meeting House is now a scheduled collection point for the Eastbourne Food Bank. The men come by once a fortnight. Yesterday they dropped off one of their big wire baskets for putting the donations in (I think "basket" is the term they use) - so we're not only in business but look as if we are.
Ailz stayed at home because she was waiting for OUR NEW CAR to be delivered. It was coming all the way from Blackburn, Lancashire- where the holes are. She gave up driving a couple of years back, but since them she's had her eyes and ears attended to, her senses are sharp again- and she has reclaimed her licence. The car is a Kia Niro.
(Niro is a contraction of Near Zero- meaning the car- being a hybrid- isn't putting out much in the way of nasty emissions. It has nothing to do, more's the pity, with the sublime poet and musician who also happened to be Emperor of Rome.....}
It was important to us that the car should be a nice bright colour so we can spread joy. It's red. We're calling her "Ruby". Cars like boats ought to have names.
So we're mobile again. The plan this morning is to take her up to The Birling Gap.....
The Meeting House is now a scheduled collection point for the Eastbourne Food Bank. The men come by once a fortnight. Yesterday they dropped off one of their big wire baskets for putting the donations in (I think "basket" is the term they use) - so we're not only in business but look as if we are.
Ailz stayed at home because she was waiting for OUR NEW CAR to be delivered. It was coming all the way from Blackburn, Lancashire- where the holes are. She gave up driving a couple of years back, but since them she's had her eyes and ears attended to, her senses are sharp again- and she has reclaimed her licence. The car is a Kia Niro.
(Niro is a contraction of Near Zero- meaning the car- being a hybrid- isn't putting out much in the way of nasty emissions. It has nothing to do, more's the pity, with the sublime poet and musician who also happened to be Emperor of Rome.....}
It was important to us that the car should be a nice bright colour so we can spread joy. It's red. We're calling her "Ruby". Cars like boats ought to have names.
So we're mobile again. The plan this morning is to take her up to The Birling Gap.....
