Beach Hut and Blue Skies

Good morning all. Yes, it's 6.59 am and I've been awake for an hour. I've had a cup of tea ...and a packet of crisps too I have to admit... and the sun is shining. What else to do but blog?

The subject of today's update has to be my wonderful hut where I have spent a fair bit of time over the past few weeks. I had some time during the Easter holidays when I was at the hut preparing it for painting and then, over the last week, I have spent as much time as possible there as the weather has been so wonderful.

 The experience of painting the exterior of the hut has been positive. After taking on board lots of advice, I decided to go with masonry paint and the colours were already decided on as being pink and green. I have to say that I wasn't sure about that colour selection initially but now I'm really chuffed with it.

As I type this I have three and a half sides completed and I'm quite pleased with the results so far. I'm not very good at DIY and it's the first time that I've painted the hut. I am having problems reaching the upper most parts as my step ladder isn't quite high enough but I will get it finished.
The front of the hut is still a work in progress. It needs some repairs done to it before I can finish it properly and I'm not sure when those repairs will be completed so, for now, it looks a bit shabby....

.....but it will look lovely eventually.


Over a year ago when there were the storms and bad weather, the huts at Hayling took quite a battering. My hut had to be repositioned by the local council. There was a little bit of damage done by the machinery that was used which was to be expected but it was only some time later that I realised that the hut was no longer on sleepers. The council had put it back directly onto the pebbles. As time has gone I have thought more and more about this and decided that I should contact the council to see if there is anything they can do. I sent an email to which I haven't had any reply to but last week, when I was busy painting, I received a visit from a council representative who had been sent along to view the hut and assess the situation. He seemed to be confident that he could source some sleepers and that placing them under the hut would not be a problem. Happy days! However, I still haven't heard officially that that is actually going to happen so we shall see.

Yesterday, as I sat on my lounger in glorious sunshine, I remembered that one of the ladies in one of the beach hut groups that I am a member of on Facebook collects pebbles, paints them and then leaves them for children to find as they walk along the beach. What a lovely idea! I am not artist but I thought that I could do something similar. I collected some pebbles, gathered my nail varnishes that I had taken to the hut to mark my keys, and did this....

....basic stuff I know but it made me happy doing it which is all that matters really don't you think?

Today's weather forecast is good again and I intend spending some more time at the hut. Yesterday I meant to continue with  painting but left my paint brushes at home. Today I need to be more organised although, in truth, it does me the world of good just sitting and doing nothing. I feel totally rejuvenated when I get home from such days. We have a difficult few days coming up with a family funeral on Friday so maybe another day of sitting, thinking and doing not much is what I should do.

I'll leave you with a few evening pics. Enjoy your day everyone.

xxxxx