Diana Had Another Early Start,

and had to be at work just before 05.00AM,

and I had to be in Bournemouth first thing, the 6 month lease on our beach hut had come to an end, so I had to pop down to pick up all of our bits and pieces in it, the problem being the gate for traffic to the beach huts only opens for 1 hour very first thing in the morning so cars are kept away from pedestrians, joggers and cyclists, it had started getting light about an hour ago, 

but already there were people sitting on the beach,

and taking a stroll,

the hut emptied, the gas bottle and ring are included in the hire, it was a bit sad as it happens, although we only visited a couple of times due to the lockdown, we have such happy memories of Bournemouth and the hut,

it was well before the tourist centre opened, where the keys have to be picked up and dropped off, but they have a cunning plan,

a key drop!

a last look at a misty entrance to the pier and I was off for the 120 mile journey home,

arriving back in Beckenham Place park, I unloaded the car,

and was back out again past some of the houses in the park as I walked to the bus stop,

past the garden of Foxgrove Lodge at the entrance to the park, where the first of the rhododendrons had started to flower,

it must be spring!

as the first few bunches of miniature daffodils,

also put on a show,

and this is where I was off to, Kingfisheries, in Croydon Road Beckenham, one of our fish had come down with Ichyophthirius multifilis, commonly called white spot disease or ich, the thing is if one fish has white spot they will all contract it, in a natural environment it is not a killer, the parasites as they hatch, (the white spot is a cyst with a huge number of invisible to the naked eye parasite, maturing and waiting to burst out), have a limited life and range, but in the confines of an aquarium fish will become repeatedly reinfected, weakening them so much that it is fatal, one bottle of cure later and I was on my way home, arriving just before Diana returned form work, after our evening meal it was feet up for a Midsomer Murder, a New Tricks, two from One Foot in the Grave and we were then off to bed.