Yesterday Ron told me about his discovery of a collection of negatives made by his father, Ray Salinger, in the 1940s and ’50s.
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Ron scanned these high quality photographs of drinkers in The Walkford pub and e-mailed them to me. We think the man in the apron is the milkman who has just delivered the milk the barman is holding – by horse and cart, of course.
On a humid-damp, dull, overcast afternoon, after a visit to the pharmacy at Milford on Sea, Jackie drove us to
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Keyhaven where I walked along the harbour wall.
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Strong winds swept across the high tide surface, sending rippling waves shunting weedy scum seething against the stonework,
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and sweeping bent grasses alongside.
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I watched various boats speeding around the harbour; and a
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sailboarder prepare his steed and weave his way among the moored craft.
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A boisterous dog enjoyed chasing a floating stick its owner kept throwing for the purpose;
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a pair of swans drank their fill.
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Perhaps in consideration of the engineers involved in cable work, the owners of a house nearby had placed a polite notice at the start of a neatly mown drive across the sward.
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We continued along Saltgrass Lane and observed walkers on Hurst Spit.
This evening we dined on Jackie’s spicy lamb curry, savoury rice, and plain parathas with which she drank Hoegaarden and I drank more of the Saint Emilion. I was given a special addition of a dish of fried onions, chillis, and garlic to increase the heat of my portion.