Sea Air ..........

I must apologise for not posting yesterday fellow bloggers and friends but I had the chance to get some sea air, so you will understand why I went.

Our friends invited us to take a ride with them to Freeport Leisure, which is a retail outlet village at Fleetwood, near Blackpool. Now I know what you're thinking but you're wrong. It wasn't just the thought of all those shops that attracted me honestly, I thought as it's right on the coast the sea air is just what I need whilst recouperating from my operation. I have the pictures to prove it was on the coast just in case you think I'm just making up an excuse to get to the shops with my plastic. Also there are plenty of benches scattered around the place so I could have a sit down and rest my knee any time I wanted, which I did, frequently. The fact that I'd had a sleepless night didn't deter me - I needed that retail therapy sea air so much!

Here's a selection of the shops, there's also a Marks & Spencer right next door to Next, and lots of others big name stores, which I didn't have time to take a photograph of because I was shopping sitting looking at the boats which are right there in a little harbour next to the shops, so you can see I was there for the air.

Photographs copyright 2007 Click on photo to enlarge

The Harbour

I did really well because I managed to walk round, inbetween resting, for 2 hours! We then returned to the car and drove to the sea front in Fleetwood and took in more of the lovely sea air. We watched the sea for a short while, but the tide was out so it wasn't very interesting, here's a picture though and one of the Fleetwood lighthouse, which looks like the leaning Tower of Pisa but that's MWM's fault 'cos he took the picture.

The Sea & Leaning Lighthouse











Once we were heady with Ozone we headed across the road to the North Euston Hotel for lunch. You can see my friend and I standing outside. My friend is the one with the sunglasses, I'd forgotton mine in the rush to get to shops sea. You will notice I have cleverly hidden behind the car to conceal my crutches.

We had a lovely lunch of fresh Fleetwood Haddock in beer batter, chips and mushy peas, all washed down with a nice cool beer, of course our friend the driver didn't have beer he just had orange juice.

Just the ticket after all that walking and fresh air!

It was time to set off home, I have to tell you that the weather had picked up and it was really hot and sunny by this time, consequently MWM, my friend and I fell asleep in the car on the way back it was nothing to do with the beer!

Now I know the burning question you are asking yourselves - "Did she buy anything?"

Of course I did!

A new handbag! Well it was the only thing I could get that I didn't have to try on for size!

My knee
Wednesday 11th April
Well I slept like a log last night after all that sea air! Now you would think I'd be in agony today after all the walking around wouldn't you? Not so, my knee feels better but then the physiotherapist did say that shopping walking was the best exercise.

Now where's the shops?!