I had such a nice day yesterday. Tom was working but I spent it with youngest son and daughter who I am so grateful to be living with in this lockdown and I had a really lazy day which is unusual for me but made a nice change. In the morning I chatted with eldest daughter on the phone who was spending her day with her partner and Scarlett. I remember a few years ago we all went out for lunch together. How we took those things for granted!
In the afternoon eldest son phoned and we chatted on the phone for an hour while he told me all his plans for his new house on the south coast. He has moved to a three storey Victorian house near Hastings with a sea view and it is beautiful! It has needed an enormous amount of work as it was in the kind of state that would make most people run a mile but he is gradually working through it all. We are just so sad we haven't been able to visit him as often as we wanted to because of the pandemic. I just love it there, I don't know what it is about the sea that makes me feel so at home.
Sometimes I wonder whether memories can be passed on in our DNA. It would really explain how sometimes you can visit a place and instantly feel comfortable or uncomfortable. My Dad joined the Merchant Navy at 14 and I have had a lifetime of tales about life at sea. It was only when I started looking into my family tree I found out that on my Dad's side my 4x Great Grandfather was a naval captain living in South Africa and my 3x Great Grandfather was a sailor aboard HMS Vanguard in the 1840s. This print is of the Vanguard in 1837.
