Easter in Reculver

Mother, Father and I piled into the Mondeo estate on Friday and headed towards Herne Bay. Now we're huge fans of the place as we've a static caravan at nearby Reculver (home of the Roman fort which was originally 12 miles inland coastal fact fans!) Unfortunately the clientele of the caravan park has gone downhill in recent years and it's full of what Mother calls 'Feralchavs'. Anyway, our caravan is plush and cosy and we've just invested in a new chemical toilet so all's well on that front.

I had lunch with Mr A on Thursday afternoon where he asked if he could pop down for a day and join us and I thought 'why not?' so threw caution to the wind and invited him. Father picked him up from the station at 12pm on Saturday and we decided to splash out on a pub lunch at the King Elthelbert public house as we'd heard good things about the mixed grill. Mr A charmed Mother and Father by intervening when a group of youths were trying to rip the aerial off of the Mondeo, which impressed the former more than the latter.

After lunch Mr A and I decided to walk along the cliff, it was very windy but he'd brought along a spare balaclava helmet for myself, which was rather sweet of him. We stopped on a bench for a rest and shared the flask of coffee which Mother had thoughtfully packed and a pack of six hot cross buns. Mr A declared that he was "getting dangerously fond of me" and tried to kiss me, unfortunately this coincided with a seagull trying to peck the remnants of his currant bun from his hands, failing to do so and biting his thigh instead. I'll say this for Mr A, he didn't complain, but we hobbled back to the caravan for an application of Savlon and a plaster.

The day concluded with a lovely dinner of Ginster's steak slices and chips from the local fish and chip shop - Mr A even decided to choose a side order of mushy peas! Prior to catching his train Mr A and I we dropped off on the Herne Bay seafront and decided to spend an hour playing Flipper Winner (a 2p arcade game which includes mechanical pushers and the facilitity to flip a coin.) He was rather good and made his £2.26 last longer than mine!

As I waved him off on the train I smiled, it had been a good day.