Sunday 7 September 2014

Time And Tide

So far, seven posts today but they must compete for time with other activities, like driving family members to Morecambe for the Vintage by the Sea Festival: old cars; clothes; music; a bar in a bus; food stalls; fairground; good weather; the two surviving Lancaster Bombers flying overhead. See attached image for cars and the renovated Midland Hotel, which Hercule Poirot walks out of on television.

I leave the family near the Promenade, drive to find a car park with some spaces left, walk to visit a good friend who lives on two floors above a second hand bookshop (and who has been mentioned on this blog before), emerge to find family, which is now easy with mobile phones, and eventually return home to meditate, eat and post about the end of Eternity, Captain Flandry and Chunderban Desai.

This has been a Sunday but, in retirement, every day can be like this, more or less.

3 comments:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Hi, Paul!

Old cars? I'm reminded of how Hanno, the immortal (sic) Phoenician grumbled about how shoddy, alas, American cars were becoming in the 1960s or '70s in THE BOAT OF A MILLION YEARS.

Sean

Ketlan said...

There was a single Chevrolet, as I recall, but loads of Bond three-wheelers, a couple of Rolls-Royces and an awful lot of gorgeous, old Alvises. And, of course, the glorious Midland Hotel. A lovely day out.

Sean M. Brooks said...

Hi, Paul!

I'm not familiar with three wheeler cars, which seems very strange to me! By an odd coincidence, as I was filling up my car with petrol yesterday after Mass, a three wheel motorcycle rolled in. That did interest me!

Glad you had a good time at the car exhibition at the Midland Hotel!

Sean