Tuesday 28th October 2025 - Monotonous, Promenade Closure and Remembrance

Since last Thursday, excluding Friday, the weather has been pretty abysmal.  Winds and rain were starting to get monotonous but at last, today it’s been a whole lot better.   We have both been out in the garden this morning, Peter has taken down the French beans, consigned the courgette plant to the composter and cleared the leaves, trapped around the chard plants.  While he was doing this, I raked and swept up the leaves in other parts of the garden and by the time we’d finished the brown bin was full, ready for tomorrow’s collection.

NNDC announced on Facebook, the Council’s intention to close, from today, the east end of the promenade and the access road from Clifton Way.  The notification reads as follows –

‘OVERSTRAND KNOTWEED: Tomorrow (Tuesday, 28 October), works will begin in Overstrand to remove the cliff material containing Japanese knotweed from the sea wall.

While this is carried out, access to areas of the seawall and the beach access slope from Clifton Way will be closed (as shown in yellow on the map below). Beach access will only be possible via the west end.

A licensed contractor will remove the cliff material containing Japanese knotweed from the sea wall and dispose of it in a controlled manner.

This is to enable contractors to remove the cliff slump containing Japanese knotweed.’

I have copied the map, see below, from NNDC’s post.  I acknowledge their copyright.  This afternoon, we could see from the cliff top; the planned clearance is in progress.

I have received details covering this year’s Remembrance Service in St Martins Church, along with the outdoor service on Armistice Day at the War Memorial, which will include the children from the Belfry School’s Oak Class.  Below is the poster with more details, which I will add to the Village Calendar Page.