10 March 2010 It’s All Coming Back

Today was Get Life Set up in Brighton and it went OK except for when we petered out a bit in the afternoon. So Sam and I took her scooter and went down the road to the beach promenade and playground. Things about Brighton are slowly coming back to her but she definitely remembered throwing stones in the sea, and searching for sea shells, and bringing a bucketful back to the flat.

But both of us had forgotten about the coastal wind in Brighton–the wind that plays with hats and makes you think you forgot to put any clothes on. This is also the wind that turns rain into the dreaded “sideways rain.”

Sideways rain is rain with the special ability to lash your face and push you around, usually into a puddle. We remember sideways rain.

The other day Sam said to her father,
“Everything but one is exciting about Brighton!”

AC asked, “What one?”

Sam replied, “Sideways rain.”

But we’ve been here over 24 hours and so far there’s been no rain, sideways or otherwise!

I’d throw salt over my shoulder except that I didn’t remember to buy salt at the grocery store today.