When I was a child, if we ever had a day out at the
seaside it was on the East Coast. The east wind was the stuff of legend: a lazy
wind - lazy because it didn't go round you; it went through you. A very cold
wind. I used to think of it as coming straight from Russia. I think of it today
because July 11th was the birthday of one of my great-aunts, and she once took
me to stay for a week in Bridlington.
She liked us to go for a walk each day along the
promenade to get the fresh sea air and to 'blow away the cobwebs'. On our walk
one day we saw a boatman selling tickets to go on a trip on his boat. A
notice-board proclaimed the cost of the trip and carried the promise, BACK FOR
TEA! - "We could be back for tea without going on the trip," she laughed, but we
went on the boat trip all the same.
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