MissM and I decide that we must have some sea air
and so we head for the coast.
It is a grey day and the famous beach huts
are barred and bolted shut
but the inner harbour is bustling with visitors.
The quayside is littered with ropes and anchors,
nets, chains and blue plastic buckets.
The salty air makes us hungry
but not enough to eat cockles, whelks or jellied eels.
We are tempted by an ice cream parlour
which promises us that their ice cream
will make us 'weep tears of joy'.
After trialling the honeycomb flavour
MissM assures me that her eyes definitely welled up briefly
to prevent me from demanding our money back.
It is all very relaxing
and I only feel slightly enraged
by the spelling mistake
and couldn't care less
about the apostrophes.
and so we head for the coast.
It is a grey day and the famous beach hutsare barred and bolted shut
but the inner harbour is bustling with visitors.
The quayside is littered with ropes and anchors,nets, chains and blue plastic buckets.
The salty air makes us hungrybut not enough to eat cockles, whelks or jellied eels.
We are tempted by an ice cream parlourwhich promises us that their ice cream
will make us 'weep tears of joy'.
After trialling the honeycomb flavourMissM assures me that her eyes definitely welled up briefly
to prevent me from demanding our money back.
It is all very relaxingand I only feel slightly enraged
by the spelling mistake
and couldn't care lessabout the apostrophes.
17 comments:
That sounds like a very dangerous place to me. A place to make you not care about the apostrophes.
Sounds like a wonderful day! It sounds like you are both enjoying half term :)
Lcuky there's a whole ocean between here and that sign because I care a lot for apostrophes!
Its' komferting to know that American's havent' cornured the market on inuppropriate use of apostrophe's. Or on sign misspeling's.
(Hmmm...which do I love more, jellied eels or "mussles"??? Answer: ice cream.)
Nooooo - we were there too. We could have yabbered over a pot of whelks (my favourite, so rubbery and yet so good). But poor Miss M would have been forced into hard labour on the sandcastle front.
Perhaps it was an instruction? Was there a fisherman nearby wearing a name tag? Was his hair all too straight and organised? Oh dear, did we not look hard enough?
I hope Lynn Truss doesn't read this blog, you would be chastised!
My goodness, throwing the care of apostrophes to the wind, you were certainly in a seaside frame of mind. I must say that a jelly eel sounds rather more appetising to me than a jellied one.
I love the beautiful blue and orange nets.
and the seafood.
and the icecream.
The apostrophes really bother me! But it looks like a beautiful place.
Sounds like a good place to eat fish and chip's outside. x
1. Poor Miss M. Forced to cry to avoid public embarrassment.
2. I agree with poshyarns about the jelly eels.
3. I do not like eels, but I have eaten one. (Ick.)
Lovely photos!
love
Lyn
xxx
I thought mispeelings was something to do with book reviews ;-)
by the way Jean-Claude van Damme was known as the Muscles from Brussels. Certainly no sprout
No oysters??? How strange.
I love Whitstable. Lovely little village.
N.
I love love love that photo of the blue ropes!
Whereas I am positively terrified at the thought of meeting a jelly eel next time I go to the seaside. Jellied ones are bad enough!
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