An extra hour

Making the most of the extra hour's daylight today and trying to catch the best light for photographs - rather unsuccessfully I think - along the beach in Herne Bay after work.

Very pleasant stroll with the sun still out and only a gentle breeze off the sea. The only thing that would have made it perfect would have been the dogs with me.

Oh and Mrs DD too of course!

And I managed to resist a swift half in the Diver's Arms!

Now, an explanation about yesterday's blip now that I have a better connection. This is a book which was mentioned in another book which Bananablip and I read earlier this year, Twenty Chickens for a Saddle.

It is all about a true situation which came about in the 1940's when an English girl met, fell in love with and subsequently married an African tribal prince while he was over in Britain studying law at university.

'In 1948 a young, white English woman, Ruth Williams, made headline news all over the world. She had met, fallen in love with and married Seretse Khama, an African Prince and heir to the chieftainship of a tribe of more that 100,000 people - The Bamangwato.'

I am only half way through the book but it is fascinating to read about the obstacles put in their way, by family, friends and both African and British governments. How times have changed!

It is truly a tale of two people, falling in love, seemingly, in the wrong place at the wrong time. Clearly, despite everything, the story had a happy ending as they were to remain happily married until his untimely death from cancer at the age of 59.

It will be here waiting for you Banana, when you come home in August.