La Electric Palace - La Electric Landlady

All day Saturday was spent ripping up carpets with a Stanley knife and scrubbing down floorboards here in Rosemary Cottage. Floorboards are being painted over the Easter break as I should have my first let of the year in early Summer. Just need to find more time and money to finish off the house. I needed a break from the housework, so slipped two minutes across the road to the lovely little Electric Palace Cinema for coffee and a film. Before heading home on Sunday morning, a super early 7am breakfast was had on an empty beach outside Rye. Just me watching a little group of Sandpipers making their sporadic mad dashes tight along the very edge of the shoreline in their hunt for food. I'm starting to think about a short trip somewhere in late April/May; France, Barcelona or Amsterdam, or maybe back to Copenhagen again? Just the weather to be sitting outside at the cafe of the Black Diamond Library next to the riverside.

Alfa Romeo Giulia 1968 - Faggio Vs Ochre

Currently running errands to the house in Old Town Hastings in the 'Ginger Carthorse' aka the 1968 Alfa Romeo Giulia. I was sad to see the trusty dark fig Alfa (1975) traded in for this oddity of a colour. There have been a few early mornings getting the breakdown chaps to come out to try and coax the car to start in the recent cold weather. The London climate is not quite suiting the little Italian at the moment, I'm afraid. If you see Old Ginger on the A2, don't be fooled into thinking the drivers are 70s sitcom types 'George and Mildred' at the steering wheel; give a wave as we hare past! Hats off to the lovely Titus Rowlandson, the Alfa guru based in Eye, Suffolk, for working his magic and keeping this oldie on the road. By the way, do keep a look out for Jasmin Rowlandson's ceramic work which is making regular appearances designing ceramics for interiors and galleries across the UK.