Sand Works

Today is not the day that was planned. Ryde Pride has been postponed because of the weather warning. We woke to blue skies and a breeze but not the weather that was predicted. There were parts of the day that were quite nice but, it’s true, at time the wind did get up. It was certainly not a consistent storm but, maybe, if there had been stalls and a stage they may have been rocked a little more than planned. The County Press had a live blog and the Hovercraft service was cancelled mid morning because of the winds.  Nonetheless, there were plenty of times when it was perfectly pleasant.

We decided that we’d do some shopping as the day was now free and open.  We try not to keep much perishable food here and so we buy what we need as we go. I am not sure if it’s cheaper but it gets us out and about. PY also purchased some pictures that he would like to put up in the flat. I really find the lack of clutter very relaxing and I don’t really want to fill all the walls with pictures but it’s alway been part of the plan to have some images of The Island on the walls. So, we went to a shop on Union Street which had some in the style we wanted. We put them behind the counter to come and collect later, intending to get some cheap frames from Poundland in the meantime, but there were no frames to be had so we were back under in under an hour.  Eventually, we found some frames that could be ordered from Dunelm for collection in Newport and that’s set our agenda for tomorrow.

Later we went for a walk long the beach. In spite of the weather, definitely neither as windy or cold as we had thought, we sat outside the Appley Beach cafe. PY with a pistachio ice-cream and me with a small white wine.  It was quite fun to watch the weather, but the tide was out so a bit hard to judge the state of the seas. The French bulldog at the other table was cute.

We continued our walk. As we approached Appley Tower we noticed there were some large conduction vehicles collecting and moving sand. I searched online and couldn’t find anything to explain the process but sand was being loaded onto trucks and moved from the Tower up towards the beach in front of the Deli Cafe.  We found a couple of seats outside the cafe and had another wine. It was definitely a little bit breezier up here, there isn’t much shelter, but we were far from being the only people outside. We watched the trucks moving sand until we headed back towards the Co-op for dinner at 7pm. As we walked back the teams moving sand were moving their trucks into position for the evening. I wonder if I will be able to tell what how much sand has been moved tomorrow?