A friend said that blogging with Blogger is awkward on a Mac, so I thought I'd have a go; though in fact, she uses an iPad and I'm on the desktop. The desktop iMac, that is, for you literalists out there.
We went to visit my sister last week, which was a lovely break. We visited Weymouth one day, where I was born. LT grew up a bit further along the coast, so knew the town rather better than I did; though everywhere has changed a lot in the past half century. He decided not to go to his home town of Bournemouth, he thought it would be too depressing. However, we were rather gratified to discover that Weymouth seafront and the old harbour were much as they had always been.
This is the old harbour. The side where we walked still has cars parked facing the water, but now there are huge sleepers to stop them rolling into the water as well as a kerb at the edge, which is very sensible but, perhaps, removes the little frisson of daredevilry that there used to be.
We went to visit my sister last week, which was a lovely break. We visited Weymouth one day, where I was born. LT grew up a bit further along the coast, so knew the town rather better than I did; though everywhere has changed a lot in the past half century. He decided not to go to his home town of Bournemouth, he thought it would be too depressing. However, we were rather gratified to discover that Weymouth seafront and the old harbour were much as they had always been.
This is the old harbour. The side where we walked still has cars parked facing the water, but now there are huge sleepers to stop them rolling into the water as well as a kerb at the edge, which is very sensible but, perhaps, removes the little frisson of daredevilry that there used to be.
And here, in the random order that Blogger always loved, are pictures of the Riviera Hotel, where I was born and lived until I was three or four. It looks magnificent as you come round the bend and down the hill but is, unfortunately, marred by the funfair in front. It has been nicely maintained but it's not as smart as you'd think such a fine Art Deco building would be.
