… that I did this morning, after it was light of course, was to go to the sea wall out here and look down into the harbour.
And sure enough, there was Neptune. Tied up to the quayside and judging by the noise coming from down there, they were busy loading it up.
It didn’t take them long either because she sailed out of the harbour on the afternoon tide. She’s now well on her way to Whitstable with 2000 tonnes of gravel.
Just for a change I had a decent night’s sleep. In bed before 23:30 and asleep practically right the way through. And I wasn’t in all that much of a rush to leave my bed.
After breakfast I had a shower and a clean-up, and then went down to have a look at the harbour.
As well as Neptune down there, the fishing boats were coming in on the tide.
There was quite a lot of activity at the fish dock as the unloading was taking place. It’s quite a busy place, what with one thing and another, and that’s why I’m here.
Back here, I remembered something that I had forgotten from the weekend.
I’d cooked a vegan leek-and-tofu pie on Sunday, as regular readers of this rubbish might recall. But I’d left it in the oven.
So out it came, and it looked even better than it did the other day. I’ve cut it into quarters and now it’s in the freezer ready for another day or four.
This morning’s task was to bring up-to-date the photos. And by the time that lunchtime came round, they were all done and finished. Thousands of them, and that’s going to take some organising.
After lunch, I made a start on the organising. If I don’t start, I won’t ever finish and that’s for sure.
What I’m doing for now is preparing an indexed text file, sticking the photos in month by month with the *alt* tags displayed for indexing purposes.
It’s even more important because I’ve had yet another request for a photo. That’s three or four already this year and while I won’t ever become rich, the photos won’t go anywhere if I don’t put them on line.
Outisde this afternoon, the tide was quite a way out.
There were several people out there today, including a couple of people hunting for shellfish in the rock pools, which made me think that the tide was going out.
Had the tide been out for a while, the seabirds would have had the shellfish. The roads and pavements are littered with fragments of shells where the seabirds have dropped them from a great height to break them open.
Going around the headland, the fishing boats were there, presumably waiting for the tide to come in.
One of them, the big blue and white one, was clearly fed up of waiting. it did a U-turn and started to roll out the net again. It might as well earn some money while it’s waiting. I stood and watched it for quite some time.
But you see the marker light just there. At high tide, the water is up almost to the top of the column.
Back here, I had a coffee and cake and a play on the guitar, and then attacked the photo collection again. I had a little 5 minutes … errr … relax as well.
For tea tonight, I made a stuffed pepper and spicy rice and it was delicious. It set me up nicely for my little lonely walk around the walls.
But here’s a thing.
I’ve been doing a little bit of research on something or other, and I’ve actually found someone who used to live next door (or thereabouts) to me when I was a toddler.
You’ve no idea just how small the world is these days.
Tonight, I’ll have another early night. There’s plenty of things that I need to do tomorrow.
But I’ve set a few things in motion that might bring me some surprising results. But once you take the lid of Pandora’s Box you can’t put it back on.
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