Persistent

Dirty not very pretty memories

The Newbiggin by the Sea that Rebecca and I moved to is going away.

We knew that it was going to go when we moved here but I did not realise how attached I would get to the old Newbiggin before it went.

As there are many people who have lived here longer than me, here are some things that we may want to remember because even if they were only temporary or makeshift they hold memories for us.

It’s a funny kind of memory because these things are not going away, like little lost desert villages they are being buried by the sand, possibly they will be found again in a thousand years by a man with a good taste in hats and a whip, but until then let’s remember.

This is the promenade, it is made of very boring looking concrete and it is stepped. The reason it is stepped is that the drop from the top promenade to the beach is about 4 meters. That is quite a fall, so if in the future anyone wants to dig down to find the last steps, you may have a long way to go.

I taught my son how to fish on this promenade, we never caught anything but that was never the point, well; maybe not to me. I remember sitting on this promenade in the dead of winter, freezing cold just wishing that I had a camera so that I could catch the ride of the wave as it hit one end becoming a circle of water traveling along the edge of the concrete, often from one end of the prom to the other. It was like a little curly wave of water and you could imagine an action man sized surfer riding it on a board.

In that kind of weather, you could never get close enough to take the photo you wanted, the seas were to rough and a sneaky wave coming from the other direction would be very likely to catch you.

At the moment this is what the prom looks like, the new sand is covering it to the top level and all of the cockles who thought they had a home for life are now finding themselves under a few meters of sand.

Let us hope they keep a shovel in there.

It is interesting watching the prom covered with sand because it is happening in stages. It may not be taking the years that the aforementioned deserts take, it’s a bit like a fast forward and in 30 days with 30 loads of wet runny sand it’s gone.

These steps may not be pretty, they may not lead to a Mayan treasure. But we may never see them again.

Our promis being buried in waves of wet soggy sand. You can see it happening.

Here is another thing.

Everyone in Newbiggin knows about this but what a lot of people don’t know is that if at low tide you stand with your back to these steps.

Facing this weather station.

And walk forward to these rocks.

When you look about a bit you find these just lying around.

These are the last of the cables that were strung out to

Scandinavia

from Newbiggin at the turn of the century. They are still lying here, waiting now to be covered with sand; it will not be long before that happens so if you want a piece I suggest you go quickly. ( I have my bit)

Of course looking at them know they don’t look anything like they did when they were first laid,

but you try lying in sea water off Newbiggin for 120 years and I bet you look a lot worse.
There are many things that people may not class as pretty, but they were there for a while and we should remember them.

Before the desert closes in.

UKTV Food

Rebecca has been sponsored in the food hero’s award ran by UKTV Food who are looking for regional businesses who support local producers.
Her business www.prideofnorthumbria.com has been running for about 20 months creating hampers filled entirely with regional produce from Northumbria

and she has recently opened a shop in Newbiggin by the Sea.
We are looking for support for Rebecca in the hope that she will reach the finals and appear on TV so promoting her business and our little seaside town.
If you would like to help us please follow the link and register with UKTVfood (they don’t email you with loads of stuff) and vote for Rebecca.

This is the link to vote for her on the 2007 Food Heroes site  http://uktv.co.uk/index.cfm/uktv/directory.outletdetail/oid/6886

Here she is giving some advice to Sir John Hall on how to be an entrepreneur (well that’s how I tell it)
 

Shame on us

There is a human crisis in the world right now. It is not a crisis of weather, or a crisis of climate change. It is not a political crisis or a crisis of war and harm, this crisis is worse than that. It is in fact a crisis that we feed every day with our opinions. It is a crisis brought on by circumstance targeted cruelly and with injustice at the few who find themselves judged by the many.

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, it is because of us and our expectations that our celebrities are starving.

Celebrities now find it impossible to go to lead their paparazzi into a sweet shop and buy a bar of chocolate without being penalised for the fact that it is:

A: Not Fair Trade

B: Paid for by Credit Card

C: Not the same brand that paid for their wedding

This lack of chocolate has a terrible debilitating effect on our poor harassed celeb’s. Without the ability to eat chocolate and not be judged our lovely celebrities are just wasting away.

Take a look at this before and after picture of Kelly Osborne taken only 3 weeks after her purchase of a Milky bar promoted the headline “Kelly likes a small white one”

This power of the press doesn’t end here.

With the expectations of glossy women’s magazines our new age celebrities now fear for there careers that some athletic paparazzi may snap them as they open their bedroom curtains wearing a pooh bear nightdress from Marks and Spencer. The terrible consequences of this forced lifetime of high fashion means that some celebrities are being forced to spend every penny they earn on only the latest and most fashionable garments to be seen in at any time of day regardless of the circumstances.

This terrifying situation means that most celebs can no longer venture outside without wearing at least 1 tiara, and if caught carrying a handbag worth less than £9000 the shame can be unbearable.

Here for instance we see a happy go lucky Renee Zellweger before the ‘Tatty magazine’ front page headline reading “Renee wont get any parts if she dresses like a bloke”

Poor Renee in fear for her career had to ensure that even when walking around her own apartment she dressed only in highest quality Envintio Gerrann hand made matching twin sets with shoes.

(Picture supplied under licence from P.ratzi inc based in the top window of the building behind Renee’s apartment)

This pressure to not just eat nothing but also to dress to the limit of your expense is even harder on our celebrity families.

It is now almost too late for one of our best loved celebrity famlies the Beckhams.

This poor harassed celebrity family has been forced by the pressure of the press to wear only the best designer clothing at all times, to holiday in only the most expensive resorts for at least 11 months a year. This has forced this poor family to leave their home shores and look for work that will pay for their expected celebrity lifestyle overseas.

This extra work is coming just in time as the pressure of style has forced poor mother

Victoria

(Posh) Beckham to run out of food money for herself and just be able to feed her children if she is to be able to clothe them to press expectation.

Because of this forced expectation this poor woman has been forced to starve herself until her boots wobble, and she requires help from a friend just to be able to support herself.

This situation has gone far enough for long enough.

It is no longer fair to expect our poor celebrities to endure this horrific lifestyle.

They have high expectations and we can’t help them all at once, that is why I think that we should direct our help to one celebrity at a time.

That is why I have set up the NOSH FOR POSH helpline.

It is important that if we wish to continue to judge what Posh wears and what Posh eats that we supply her with the opportunity to be able to eat and drink to the highest of expectations in the most comfortable of surrounding and with enough 24 hour personal protection to keep the cameras away so that she can eat in peace. Maybe then she will regain the energy to be able to tell us all about it.

NOSH FOR POSH is a web based celebrity assistance and you can help us to help them by sending just £1 Or $1 to paypal account noshforposh@hotmail.co.uk

Do it now, don’t let our celebs suffer any longer.

Thank You