Hello everyone, today’s blog is about the weather (wouldn’t you know) and the two boys who were sadly drowned on the beach at St Annes at the weekend.
So wouldn’t you know we’ve been ‘on holiday’ this week. Can you remember me telling you that it always rains when we have time off? Well it has. I couldn’t make it up, it’s a good job we aren’t bothered. Some people get so upset when they can’t go abroad.
I’ve always said we are lucky to have the seaside practically outside our door. It’s helped a lot during the lockdown as there is always something to see. It’s been packed here and on the beach – every time the sun shines it’s people everywhere. It’s nice to see families enjoying themselves on the beach.
They camp for practically the full day and just enjoying the sun, that is until they go on the prom. It seems as though caution flies out of the window when it comes to sunshine. Distancing isn’t on the top of some peoples’ agenda.
Drowned on the Beach
We were shocked, but not surprised, when we heard of the death of two boys at Lytham St. Anne’s last weekend. They had gone walking on the beach towards the sea. As such a lot of people do, they looked forward most of the time and didn’t see the sea coming in behind them. The result was two dead boys, drowned on the beach, and one that managed to get to shore.
The beaches are bad enough at the rest of this coast. But at St Annes the tide goes way out and you can walk for long enough just to get to the sea. As they didn’t live here they probably wouldn’t have thought of looking behind them. It must have been terrible when they were on a sandbank and realised they trapped. Looking forward the sea is shallow, but there’s a deep trench behind them. I feel so sorry for them and their parents who came for a day out and went back home without them.
Be Beach Aware
We’ve been watching this sort of thing more and more right in front of us, as such a lot of people seem to have found our little town. They’re like we were nearly 30 years ago when we discovered Cleveleys. Back then we hadn’t got a clue about the sea and how dangerous it can be.
Here’s one of Jane’s videos of why you need to be so careful on the beach –
Tide tables were unheard of to us and now we always have one. We probably thought it was something to do with furniture but now we see the value of them. They tell you when the tide is high and low at whatever time, and the depth of it too. If you fancy a walk out to the sea, you know when the tide turns and the likelihood of it trapping you.
A weekend or two ago, the Coastguard and RNLI were continually being called out to Cleveleys and Fleetwood as people were stuck on the islands of sand. It has the potential of drowning you, so thank goodness for mobile phones! IF the signal is strong enough…
Derek watched a family get trapped on Saturday. The water was up to their chests when they tried to cross and they had a child and dog with them. It’s horrible watching all this going on all the time. When he saw them, the dad was crossing with their bags held high above his head. Much later and he would have been ringing the Coastguard.
Perils of the Seaside
I’m not trying to be the voice of doom and gloom but people just don’t respect the sea. Because our beach has a dry bit, we get bodies washed up here. Mostly animals – sheep, dolphins, porpoises, you name it and it’s so upsetting. But there has been more than one human washed up at Cleveleys too.
The tide looks so shallow and lulls people into a false sense of security. Meanwhile a sandbank, ground out by the waves, is four feet or more deep behind them, and full of water when they realise.
I think that’s enough about the perils of the seaside. It’s a lovely place to visit but you need to look around you and take in what is happening everywhere.
Breathe Deep!
Anyway, back to our house. After my recent bout of pneumonia, my sinuses haven’t been happy. I’ve spent some time with a lot of pain in them and generally feeling grotty. So, when Jane went people counting last week, she popped into Superdrug to see if there was anything to relieve all the nasty stuff coming out of me.
We’re not fond of decongestants as they have a bad habit of drying your mouth and throat up and giving you a cough. She found a nasal spray without any in it, based on natural remedies, and brought it home to ‘cure’ me. I wish. It’s a natty little bottle with a pump action but the trouble is, you spray it up one nostril and breathe deeply at the same time.
As you know, I haven’t got the strongest hands in the Universe, so when I tried to do it, which is a one handed job, nothing came out. You have to hold the bottle sort of between finger and thumb and then pump it in so Jane and Kevin having hysterics at my performance decided to help me.
One, two three!!
Jane stuck it up my nose to the count of one, two, three like you do. The trouble was, I sniffed like mad on number two and got nothing in my nostril. It could have been something to do with the fact that I thought she would trick me, which wouldn’t be the first time. Meanwhile those two were rolling about laughing at me although hubby didn’t, as he seems to have lost his sense of humour somewhere.
So it went on, as I couldn’t get enough strength in my hand to hold the bottle and pump it. Anyway, after a few days of using it with the help of my assistant and a lot of laughing, I can report that it does seem to have helped. It’s called Otrivine Natural if any of you are bunged up.
Nothing’s straightforward…
That wasn’t the end of it, because as normal, nothing health wise is straightforward with me. Having had an itch on my bottom eyelid, I scratched it, jerked my finger and scratched all the way down my cheek. A few days on my face is bright red and my puffy under-eye looks even more fatter than the other one. I suppose that’s some kind of infection – it doesn’t look right anyway.
I think I’d better go in a corner covered in bubble wrap and hibernate until my immune system behaves!!
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