Overstrand Life
Wednesday 7th October 2020 - Paper, Paper Everywhere
The grotty wet weather has been a blessing, well it has been for me, providing me with time to devote to sorting the paperwork we brought...
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Overstrand Life
- Sep 17, 2020
- 2 min
Wednesday 16th September 2020 - Blow & Throw, Indian Summer and Incy Wincy
Litter picking in the mornings for over eleven years, either on the west beach or in the village, we have noticed there is a pattern in...
Overstrand Life
- Sep 13, 2020
- 2 min
Saturday 12th September 2020 - A Few Changes and Clubs' Meetings
Well that was a bit of a blow, a change in the Covid-19 restrictions, announced by PM Boris Johnson on Wednesday. Is this a national...
Overstrand Life
- Sep 9, 2020
- 2 min
Tuesday 8th September 2020 - Spoke To Soon and Two Forthcoming Anniversaries
Well I might have known I had spoken too soon about the considerable drop in numbers coming to the beach. Today, the warm temperatures...
Overstrand Life
- Sep 5, 2020
- 1 min
Friday 4th September 2020 - Breath-Taking, Still Time and Who Flicked the Switch?
There really can’t be a much better way of starting the new month, and the start of meteorological autumn, than with a breath-taking...
Overstrand Life
- Sep 1, 2020
- 2 min
Monday 31st August 2020 - Beginning of the End
Wind and rain did its worst during Saturday and Sunday leaving, in our garden, a trail of leaves and snapped stems in its wake. This...
Overstrand Life
- Aug 24, 2020
- 2 min
Sunday 23rd August 2020 - Seems Like Yesterday, On the Prom and Campsite for Sale
Where does the time go? It only seems like yesterday when I sat down to write a blog but here I am four days later and back at the...
Overstrand Life
- Aug 20, 2020
- 2 min
Wednesday 19th August 2020 - Much Needed, Tragedy, Caterpillar and New Signs
Holiday makers may not agree with me, but we have had some much needed rain. This has been accompanied at times with thunder and...
Overstrand Life
- Aug 16, 2020
- 2 min
Saturday 15th August 2020 - Why I Don't Want To Go On Holiday
When we first moved here, we went on a previously booked holiday and that was it. No longer working, and living in such a beautiful part...
Overstrand Life
- Aug 12, 2020
- 2 min
Tuesday 11th August 2020 - Is There A Solution?
Virtually every day we have read about some beach or sea related incident that has involved at least one of the emergency services....
Overstrand Life
- Aug 8, 2020
- 2 min
Friday 7th August 2020 - Delights of a Heatwave and Council Responds
We’re having a heatwave and it’s really too hot for cooking, but that hasn’t stopped me. I have finished now, leaving an assortment of...
Overstrand Life
- Aug 4, 2020
- 3 min
Monday 3rd August 2020 - The Price of Fame and Rubbish
Ooh, that’s nice The Sunday Times has rated Overstrand in its top ten beaches in the south east of England. Well that is what you think...
Overstrand Life
- Jul 31, 2020
- 2 min
Thursday 30th July 2020 - Two Seals and Farewell Poppy
Compared to other years, there have been fewer Harbour Seal pups, along this stretch of the coast, needing to be rescued or moved to a...
Overstrand Life
- Jul 27, 2020
- 2 min
Sunday 26th July 2020 - Hot Cakes!
It’s going to be a shortish blog today. I have been busy with various things in the garden as well providing information to the Estate...
Overstrand Life
- Jul 23, 2020
- 2 min
Wednesday 22nd July 2020 - Seasonal Blooms, Vegetables and Fruits and A Boom!
In my last blog, I posted some photos of flowers, a seed head and forming autumn fruits, all seen on a walk across the fields. It is not...
Overstrand Life
- Jul 7, 2020
- 2 min
Monday 6th July 2020 - Not Too Bad, Crumble Cake and Flat Bread
The easing of lockdown enabling people to stay overnight, together with the ability to go to pubs and restaurants has, as far as I am...
Overstrand Life
- Jun 29, 2020
- 2 min
Sunday 28th June 2020 - Change in the Weather and Three Visitors in our Garden
Well here we are almost at the end of June and what a change we have seen in the weather. The first part of the month was disappointing,...
Overstrand Life
- Feb 23, 2020
- 2 min
Saturday 22nd February 2020 - Impatient, Ignoring the Weather and First Crabs
February has to be my least favourite month of the year. Once we get to the end of January, I get impatient and want to see spring start...
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