Post card from Eatbourne ( East Sussex ) 2012

Stormy sea in Brighton

I was in Eastbourne in the summer of 1976 for two weeks workshop set up my employer. The sandy sea, (the English Channel) of Eastbourne was on its best behaviour then and I remember taking lots of evening walks on the beach. Well it was summer time then.  However in December 2012 the sea decided to behave so, so badly, the mighty wind joined in and the rain decided to throw in its towel too that all three nature’s forces became a melting pot for one of the worst winter Eastbourne by the sea had suffered for a long, long time. I was there for three days to witness the whole drama unfold. 

 Eastbourne is not very far from the Beachy Head, another landmark under going through the same treatment, where the trees could not stand straight and if I got any where near the edge of the rolling hill of Beachy Head I would have been blown away to the bottom of the hill in to the sea, I mean the English Channel. The beautiful seaside resort of Brighton down the road was not spared either and few mad people playing Russian roulette with the never ending mighty waves coming in and out at intervals were having fun?

 There was a good side to my stormy experience, the expert say that sea air is good for us human kind and I felt it helped me to get rid of some of  my cob webs I had accumulated for the past eighteen months. During the last 18 months, my two brothers (in the photo below which I used for my first publish blog) had left this beautiful planet of mine. They are being missed by their two sisters and me, always.