Big Yellow Taxi

They didn't however pave paradise and put up a parking lot.

More they boarded up large parts of it and then abandoned it.

Today we went to the North East to see my dad. We took him out to the RSPB Bird Sanctuary at the mouth of the Tees and had a troll round for an hour or two.
Feeling hungry we headed for my Mum's favourite place in the whole wide world. A little seaside place called Seaton Carew, Mum used to go there when she was a child, when me and our kid were little we used to get taken there. I remember one incident when running along the beach and standing on a broken bottle in the sand. Screams and blood everywhere, yet today you can't even see the scar, don't even remember needing stitches.

in her later years Mum used to ask to be taken to Seaton, after a walk, or particularly after Sunday lunch for an ice cream. She loved the place and boy did she love the ice cream. Sadly Mum died last September and on her birthday this year (April) we drove over to put flowers on the grave.

Dad asked to go to Seaton for an ice cream! It was cold and windy and very wet and Seaton looked grey and depressing, seemed to sum up everybodies feelings really.

Today was warm and sunny, the sea looked inviting(but we know the North sea of old, it would have been bloody freezing!) and Seaton looked O.K. .....in parts. The ice cream shop was still there, the chippy, a new Italian restaurant (we ate, it was really good, if you're ever there it's called Red), but another chippy was boarded up, as was the seafront pub, several shops and some other establishments including the Amusements.

Mum would have loved being there but would have wept at the slow decline all around.