Southsea Seafront.... I Was Born in Southsea.....II

Ok........... ya see, during the school breaks, of which we are on a fortnights break for end of term here, I aint the sort of person to stay in........ ya see, during the normal school term we dont really get a chance to go out for the whole day cos there is school drop offs and then pre-school drop offs and then lunchtime pick ups and then 2.45 pick ups from pre-school and 3.30 pick ups from school and then shot over to pick Jacob up and then often as not to then pick Sam up from College.......

Sooooooooooo during the school breaks its nice to GET OUT and do stuff with the nippers........ each day is different nippers, each school break can also be different..... with nippers from babies right up to 12 year olds.....

Anyways you will hardly ever find me home during school holidays, I pack up the car with buggys and lunches and picnic blankets and kites and footballs and everything but the kitchen sink and we just bugger off out..... no matter what the weather...... either down the seafront cos ya can walk for miles along the prom, or to the woods, we are surround by woods here, NOT forests, just woods, well famous 'Forest of Bere' thats where many of the Royals Oaks were cut down and used to build ships like The Mary Rose, thats Henry VIII ship that sank in our harbour entrance all those years ago and was lifted in 1982 - but thats maybe another story......

LOL, I was just gonna ramble on then about my love of our heritage in my neck of the woods and me passion for our local history..... but again, maybe another time....

So, I loads the nippers up drives round to me maties, she loads hers up and we head for Southsea..... the water that afronts Southsea seafront is called The Solent, its a strip of water that has one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world, apparently...... with the Dockyard up one end and the habour mouth is also one of the narrowest :)...... all the naval shipping goes up The Solent, all the huge International Ferries, also the hovercraft that goes across to the Isle of Wight...... ya see this strip of water is what seperates us from The Isle of Wight, its a little Island just off our south coast..... and ya can just jump on the Ferry or the hovercraft to get there........ and in the middle of The Solent are 3 seaforts........ built to defend Portsmouth from invasion, The Round Tower and Hot Walls at Portsmouth are well old and all part of the fortification of the town, anyways I could go on and on and on about my part of the world....... but I do know that when I get me doodle maties over for a visit, we will take the little boat out to the seafort that has a resturant on it and just do soooooooo much to do with my world............ ok sorry rambling....... Im in a strange frame of mind this morning.....

If you look behind the nippers in this picture you will be able to just make out one of the seaforts out in The Solent and in the distance you can see The Isle of Wight, its only about a mile across the water........ and I bought ya all a stick of Southsea Rock (Oh how British) and a postcard...... so if ya want them ya will have to tip me ya address'....... well except those in our Gumbyland.......



This picture was taken out on the old pier, it partly burnt down when they was filming scenes for The Who's Film Tommy back when I was 14ish........did you know I was an extra in that film :).......nah I dont suppose ya did.....

Anyways it was WELL windy down the seafront, so we walked right along until we ended up behind Southsea Castle where is was real sheltered and so very hot lol.......



As you can see maybe it was not hot enough for ice-creams lol.......

Only 2 nippers fell into the sea on Wednesday....... so that was good........ it was strange not having all me other nippers with me, the older ones do make it so much more fun.........

anyways just boring Twaddle today....

OH, BUT OMG WE BOUGHT THE MOST FUN THING YESTERDAY........ ok ok so someone might end up getting killed on it, but its so much fun...... another time for that though......

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