Birthday Fish ‘n Chips…

It was Sue’s Mum’s 75th recently and arrangements had been made for a small family gathering at the Littlehampton and East Beach Café for lunch. The place specialises in fish and chips but has a variety of other tasty treats on the menu. It is not just the menu that attracts people to the place, it is the venue and its location sat as it is on the promenade facing out across the sea with picture windows down one side of the structure. I write structure as it is more than just a building; it is a piece of architectural sculpture clad in attractively rusting metal shaped like a weathered piece of driftwood, or a large boulder showing the layers of sediment laid down over millennia.

The building was designed by Thomas Heatherwick who has been propelled into the limelight with his spectacular Olympic Cauldron, and it turns out he was the designer responsible for the spiky UK Pavilion and the new London Bus.

The following day we had another family gathering at Mum’s place for a traditional Sunday lunch that was relaxed and enjoyable.

Best wishes to Barbara.