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The sea's definitely visible and drew my eyes post haste!
A coastal train journey must be fab Shims! Did your travelling cabal enjoy it? I'll ask the obvious question... did Stressy get stressed or merely enjoyed an ice cream? xxx
We have kept much more of our greenery than elsewhere but 
Too much faff with pics so we arrive and the pal we are meeting has a stick but can barely walk. Stressy has 'misremembered' how close to the station the shops are so a taxi is needed for the imobile!
In reality it is a few minutes walk but Sticklady can't! Just outside retail centre is a Heart Foundation shop and I ducked in for moment respite from heat. BINGO! An amazing ceiling fan. I enquired of the cost of standing under it for an hour.
Mindful of the imobile standing in the heat I am about to join them when Stressy decides he wants to look around inside too! We emerge and Party-in-a-box pal says the other two have gone to Coster.
Party pal has autism and is a little sweetie. Absolutely loves his music and throws himself into dancing even for less than 1 minute bursts of tunes for music bingo etc
End of part one
In bed! I assume you meant where do the pics show? The train was going to Hartlepool, NE coast.
Cheers
Oooh! I am jealous of your skill! Never learned to type so just wrangled keyboards when suddenly everything had to be 'word processed'
You must find this torturous for different reasons to me!
Cheers
Part 1 was a blast! I can get mental pics of the whole scenario cos your descriptive writing is awesome, as is Ray's.
I'll have to read Part 2 later though, as I'm flagging now, but many thanks for your dedication to entertaining us, hon.
I'll head off to my crypt so night night to anyone still awake and big hugs xxx
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