Seaweeds and the Seashore

Lots of seashore activity the past few days. Meandered down the end of our road yesterday and and took a walk on the exposed mud/rock/'mussel encrusted' rock flats. That's J-Rock trying to unearth a crab of some description. I should note that before we left Canada we purchased some Crocs which have done us really well on the rocky shore. They even float. And they even sell them in Ramsgate but not in as many groovy colours. KT tramps around with red ones - J-Rock in blue.

Then...we went on a "Seaweeds and their Secrets" walk on Saturday at Botany Bay. Very informative - led by a a 'bloke' from the Natural History Museum in London. Examples above and below of red, brown and green seaweeds. Course the intrepid J-Rock discovered spider crabs, Starfish, oysters, all sorts. Our Kind Hostess drove us over and joined in on the fun as well. We were hoping the Almonds would join us but they had other obligations. We see them quite a bit anyhow as they pop over every day and bring us the gossip from Broadstairs.

Photo above is of The Chine, a paved path that leads to the waterfront. J-Rock and DB have seen a ginormous Rat here that is larger than life - Ratty is his name!

Right - Now I've got to figure out these mobile cell phones which were donated to us by the lady still known as, but not really currently, the Knitter on the Cam...Problem is I need to reprogram slightly but am not finding these marvels of technology terribly intuitive. But they sure are handy.

J-Rock is enrolled in a local school - We have sent in his milk order - he gets milk once a day (drinking time in the morning the form says) and costs us £0.16 a day. Doesn't seem to come in chocolate. But anyhow, at his school he could have something similar to this menu if he wished.

We wonder what choice Paddy Wagon would make from this menu?