I little while back we had a family run
out to Dungeness where had a look around the wild landscape of vast shingle banks
and wide open marshland that form the National Nature Reserve. Here too is where
Derek Jarman retired to his Prospect Cottage when he became ill and on the side
of which is written John Donne’s poem ‘The Sun Rising’. After looking in at a quirk little gallery,
outside of which is a sculpture made of flotsam, we went to eat at the Pilot Inn, reputed to serve the best fish and chips. This establishment was built
with the timbers of the wreaked Spanish ship Alfresia that was lured onto the
shore in 1633 by nefarious types eager to loot it of its cargo of spirits.
Suitable refreshed we drove along to
Winchealsea to see a tea shop that Sue’s mum once contemplated buying many
years before. It is now a Farm Shop but much of the old town is still the same
and we explored the churchyard where Spike Milligan is buried and whose headstone
bares the inscription, in Gallic, ‘I told you I was I’ll’. We had a drink at
the New Inn opposite before travelling back to Seaford to see Chris and Lyne’s
garden work and then back home.
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