Yesterday was such a fantastic day. What had been planned as a visit to the WI Federation of Essex Annual Show became an adventure to the coastline of the Blackwater Estuary.
The day started with an outing with Colleen and John to Towerlands Conference Centre for the annual Essex WI 'show' where branches from within the Essex Federation exhibited their submissions for this year's theme - The Orient. Although some of the entrants, especially the crafts, were amazing and very beautiful, the less said about that particular part of the day at this stage the better. We did accidentally go to Hatfield Peverel first before checking where we were supposed ot be going which was actually Braintree which didn't help but I did purchase some green tomato chutney and some marmalade. However we left the show fairly swiftly as, despite our purchases, we felt a little deflated by the event.
C and J whisked me off to the coast at West Mersea that they knew really well from numerous visits since childhood and it was amazing to be on a beach, paddling in the sea when only a few hours before (including the 'show') I was in grubby old Stepney. We saw jellyfish, ate ice cream and bought plants and cherry plums from someone's front garden, leaving the money in a cashbox in the porch...wouldn't work in E1! The day didn't end there, we then went off to East Mersea and walked along the estuary where we met a family of swans who had to negotiate a grassy bank then we sat in a bit of a daze in a bird hide watching the wildlife before making our way reluctantly back to the car and East London.
I had to go into town afterwards about three hours late for a birthday party which
I didn't get to until 10.45pm and I still had sand between my toes. Lush.
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