2022

 

Well, we've had a couple of trips to the coast that have previously featured on this blog - but nothing new. Our focus this year has been on our (final) house project in Leigh on Sea; that's turning out marvellously but at the cost of our travelling life - as you see. 

Still, we now live on the coast so staying put here for the best part of a year hasn't exactly been a hardship: quite the reverse in fact.

Fresh fish always available..

Enjoying a tipple in the Crooked Billet, listening to the noise of the newly arriving Brent Geese for the winter.

The Souvenir is a forty-foot, twelve-ton Thames bawley, handbuilt in 1935. Donated to Leigh Marsh by Ian Slater. It has become a temporary monument by artists YoHa and Critical Art Ensemble, commissioned by Arts Catalyst. "The collaborative project celebrates the local tradition of wrecking boats on the salt marsh which in turn act as a concrete but decaying memory of what has passed" (their words). The Marshes will reclaim the bawley in time - which is the point of the exercise, I guess. 

Anyway, here it is. Apologies for the mini movie, made on the hoof. The spirit moved me:

Next coastal tour in 2023, all being well...