Informal dining
OK. I’ll come clean, it’s really eating on or by the beach, one of the great things about living by the sea during the summer.
I’ve been working all this weekend on a rush job for a client, so for lunch yesterday I grabbed some sushi from Marks & Spencer (more about sushi very soon) and took it on to the beach, down by the pier. While sushi is a great sit on the beach food (just don’t let it sit in the sun), I wish someone in Worthing offered the proper Bento Box thing.
Then, last night, we put a disposable barbecue and some of our favourite M&S venison burgers on our bikes, and cycled off to Goring Gap and watched the sun go down over a couple of beers.
The atmosphere was really relaxed with us as the oldest people around – the rest were groups of what appeared to be post-exam chilled teenagers and students. That was, until a van full of police officers turned up and started giving the kids a hard time over their beers and barbecues.
We left. The bubble had burst, and we wondered why the police had to be so heavy-handed. If I’d had been one of the kids, I’d have been mightily fed up. But then the police attitude could be par for the course around here. I just don’t know.