After Diana Left For Work,

I played on the computer, 

there were a few questions I asked about my camera, in the afternoon I spent it in the company of Robbie Cummings as he travelling through England's landscapes, towns and villages, and offers a personal take on life aboard his narrowboat, the Naughty Lass, a number of episodes were being played back to back, I have watched many of them before and thoroughly enjoyed all of them, if you have time for a lazy trip along some of Britain's waterways, grab a coffee and relax watching Britain slowly drift past, the series is called Canal Boat Dairies, and is proving extremely popular, it is now in its 7th. series,

which brought me nicely up to my evening read and sherry,

for tonight Diana had left me a huge smoked salmon and avocado salad, 'Cheers!',

I then decided on Men in Black II, great fun, luckily the film ended just in time for the start of a Midsomer Murder, and just as that finished Diana arrived home, the timing could not have been better, we settled down to watched another episode before we were both off to bed.

A Early Start For Us,

as I dropped Diana of at 04.45AM

arriving back home I spent some time posting the blog, then time to play with a couple of photographs from our day out, above out of the camera, 

and a tad played with,

the same here, 

although I am not that happy with either of them, tomorrow I might try seeing what they looked like as black & whites, for today, back out to pick Diana up from work, arriving home it was feet up for a coffee and a chat as we watched some afternoon television, in the evening,

time for a read and a sherry, this weeks Private Eye had just arrived, 

for this evening Diana had baked salmon and new potatoes,

 

for myself steak, onions and chips, 'Cheers!', it was the then feet up for our Friday night film, as we looked at what was on offer,

 we noticed that Hollow Man 2 was coming out on Netflix next week, so as the original, 

Hollow Man (2000), was showing we watched that, and for a Friday night munching a packet of Butterkist popcorn, it was quite enjoyable, hopefully part 2 will be as good, as an aside when the original was made an anatomically correct, totally working computer model was created of Kevin Bacon's entire body - down to the last capillary. The 3-D model has since been donated to scientific researchers, after that we rounded off the evening with a Poirot before we were both off to bed.

First Thing,

as it is Diana's day off, 

we were out, three changes of train and one bus ride to arrive here, in Hythe at the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway, it is a miniature 15" gauge railway, the culmination of the dreams of two men; Captain J. E. P. Howey — a sometimes racing driver, millionaire land owner, former Army Officer and miniature railway aficionado and Count Louis Zborowski — eminently well-known racing driver of his day (famous for owning and racing the Chitty Bang Bang Mercedes) and considerably richer, even, than Howey, but for a fuller history look here, back to today, we had visited here before way back in September 2010, 

along with Duncan,

Amber and Jade, two of his three girls, 

they all had a great but wet time,

back to yesterday, we had arrived at Hythe station, 

today we were pulled by Samson who was delivered to the railway on 20th July 1927, the identical twin of Hercules, a little more about the locomotive here, 

we had time for a coffee, 

a look along the line, 

the station of Hythe, 

Samson was turned and backed down,

then coupled to the waiting carriages, 

all set, 

time to board, 

Diana getting comfortable,

 and here we are, all ready for the off, 

we only went 1 stop, as I struggled to exit the carriage, 

to Dymchurch, 

where Diana made a video, 

and here it is,

and here we are,

outside the station a quick look at the map,

we walked over the footbridge, 

into town,

passing a few old buildings on the way,

in no time there was the pub, the Ocean Inn, we remembered from our last visit, and I also remembered from my many visit here in the 1950's and 60's, 

beside it, 

a seafood stall, 

well I just had to have a plate of whelks for breakfast, 

then a walk along the promenade, or sea wall if you like, looking towards Dungerness, 

and Folkestone,

the rear beer garden of the pub next to the permanent fun fair, 

as usual, 

I was busy snapping away, 

once pristine and clean, now this sign a testament showing the total contempt UK water companies have for their customers, as they daily pollute Britain's lakes, rivers, streams and sea, swimming not allowed due to pollution, Yuk!

one of the many Martello towers that line the coast,

more low clouds were rolling in from Dover and Folkestone, 

swamping the skies towards Dungerness, 

we made our way back into town, 

one of the shops catering for summer tourists, 

and the house of Doctor Syn,

we passed the rear of the Martello tower, 

lots more summer goods nearby, by now we were hungry so the Ocean Inn it was,

fresh caught cod & chips for Diana,

smoked haddock and new potatoes for myself, 

'Cheers!',

ands then another childhood memory for myself, 

a knickerbocker glory, the bill came to £66.75,

all too soon we were traveling home, 3 changes of trains meant we did not arrive home until after 8.00 in the evening, no Midsomers this evening, so we spent the rest of it with Poirot before Diana was off to bed, a 05.00AM start for her tomorrow, for myself a Have I Got A Bit More News For You, before I too was off to bed.