Southwold By The Sea, Suffolk - 29th September 2013

It's the day after Fred's birthday party at the village hall and we take the remaining aunties - Evelyn, Louise and Sis - over to Southwold for a few hours on the beach. It's a warm but windy day, and the seas are churning up a good head of foam in the brisk north-easterly, all of which calls for a spot of fish and chips from the pier café accompanied by a bit of random barbershop singing, courtesy of some North London school. Clearly having a bit of a sing is something to do whilst their bus driver figures out why he's ended up at Southwold instead of Southend.

next album: A Walk Around Thornham, and Jacqui Dankworth, Bungay, Suffolk - 6th October 2013
previous album: Fred's Fifth Birthday, The Village Hall, Brome, Suffolk - 28th September 2013

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Louise hangs around with a smoke on the go

Louise hangs around with a smoke on the go

Piling out of the van

Gabes is rugged up as Fred scoots about

The 'love shack'

Sis blows some sea-foam around

Harry, Evelyn and Sis on the beach

Sis's hair blows around

Harry runs away from the sea

Fred runs into the sea

Isobel, Sis and the boys

Sis scoops Harry out of the sea

Sis, Fred, Isobel and Harry

Crashing waves and sea foam

Sis looks out over a groyne

Harry has a snack

Southwold beach, and the beach huts

Fred kicks some foam about

Evelyn swings Harry around

Sis with a scooter

Evelyn roams around

Sis blows on a chip

The promenade crowds watch the barbershop choir

Fred eats chips

More barbershop action

Evelyn installs Harry in his buggy

Nice mosaic table on Southwold pier

Fred plays one of Tim Hunkin's games

Harry smiles

The doctor is in

Louise whacks a banker

Isobel goes Walkin' the Dog

Fred practices being a pirate

Fred in the Under the Pier show

Sis piles out of the bathyscape

A classic photo of Southwold from the pier

A very green corridor, leading from the arcade

Harry gives it the hairy eyeball

Fred on the concrete steps

Walking along the promenade

Heading to St James's Green

The 'Adnams Street'

Fred at the back bar in The Crown

Fred and Louise in the Crown Hotel's back bar

Louise, Harry and Sis

Evelyn looks around

We head back to the car park

There's a 50s shed by the boating pond

Another painted shed

A derelict fire engine

A neat bookend: back at the van