To Broadstairs

The timing of our next visit to Broadstairs was to fit in with an Inset day for Ernie and to make some progress with decisions on our new house.  We were not expecting the house to have been started, and indeed it had not - ours is the last to be built and is not the same design as the other four.  The weather has not been good.  On our first visit, the site was being cleared ready for action, but the rain was falling.  A few days later, on Sunday, we called round to find that the base had been laid.

This is 'house'


The view from what will be the garage




We enjoyed our day with Ernie, especially playing bowls in the hallway of the flat and then continuing to their house where he flew around the kitchen on a three wheeler.

We played trains with Lenny in the flat


We woke up one morning to snow;  this is the back garden of the flat


The 



The sea is not very far away and on our way to the shops.  it was very cold and very pretty with the snow lying on the sand.





Te When Ernie came home from school, he was very excited, having played in the snow at school.  He rushed into the gardens and started throwing snow furiously and ignoring the temperature outside.  He had seen snow before, but would have been too young to play in it or to remember.

By the following day, the sky was brighter and the sea more animated.  This was on
Wednesday.

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Today. Thursday, we have wind, grey skies and a little snow.

We met the developer on Monday morning on site.  The team was back at work and they hoped to start laying bricks on Wednesday. 

By the weekend, the snow had cleared and we were able to get out to the playground with the boys on Sunday, Helen and Nick having escaped for a night away.  We left Broadstairss very early on Tuesday (fortunately the trains were back to normal) and had  a trouble free journey back to Thézan where we found that our plants still had some life in them. 

We return to Broadstairs in two weeks time to see how the house is progressing. 

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