I can’t believe it’s October tomorrow!! September has flown past, some sad events, some memorable, some ordinary, some really inspiring! The weather forecast for the month looks quite pleasant, somewhat mixed, but lots of little sunshines on the site I looked at. Whenever I think of October weather, my mind inevitably takes me back to a visit we made to the south-east coast several years ago:
Several years ago we went down to Sussex to Winchelsea Beach to meet up with the band my husband had been playing with as a teenager. They reunited for a gig in a wonderful pub, the Ship. I’d not been there before, although I think we may have driven through the area many years ago on a miserable wintry day… we hadn’t stopped to sight-see, too jolly chilly. However, when we went down to Winchelsea Beach on this occasion the weather was wonderful. We had all travelled from away, most of the band from north Surrey, us from Somerset. We checked into the hotel where we were all staying, and then went to the venue.
The Ship is a great pub, with an interesting style – being so close to the sea it has a nautical theme… and when we were there it had a door into a butcher’s shop… in fact they had a sheep roast, like a hog roast but with a whole sheep. We heard a story at the time that the owners had wanted to have nautical artefacts and bought a job lot which they thought would be a few assorted pictures, maybe a porthole or two, a few knotted ropes, a bit of rigging etc… what turned up was a pantechnicon carrying an extraordinary collection including lifeboats and a funnel… By the time we visited all was beautifully and interestingly arranged.
While we were there we visited Rye, Winchelsea, and Hastings as well as the Romney Marshes and Dungeness… we were on the way home when we stopped there and the mist came in and it was very spooky and more than a bit creepy with the power station and the lighthouse looming in the fog…
However, the thing I remember most is the band inside the pub rehearsing (and sampling the beer) and us wives and partners sitting outside on some decking, our shorts and shirt sleeves rolled up as far as they could, lounging back basking in the glorious sunshine… we all ended up with sunburned noses… in October!!
https://www.shipwinchelseabeach.com/
Lois Elsden 