Jack in the Green Preparation. Mainly Photographs!

A wander along George Street and Rock-a-Nore Road today, beautiful blue sky, Spotted the Jack in the Green peeps putting up greenery, here at the Dolphin Inn.

Webbes

The Standard

 Bob decorating!

Another Home

End of George Street

The Albion, George Street 

T'other End of George Street

Oh yes, the Jack in the Green Festival is soon to start, if you hadn't noticed, with a music session this evening in the Stag, All Saints Street, from 8pm (website).

Enjoy the weekend!

There IS an Easter Bunny!

See! There is the Easter Bunny yesterday, with volunteer Richard in close attendance, at the Lifeboat Station. The Easter Bunny was a mine of information, by the way, not to mention holding a basketful of wee chocolate eggs for wee children.

But the day had started earlier for me when it was, quite frankly, persisting down! I'd believed the BBC online weather forecast that there would be no more rain in the day, and how wrong were they?!? But I suddenly remembered, the BBC no longer gets its forecast from the Met Office, but from the American (General Atlantic) owned MetroGroup, well I won't be looking at the BBC website for weather from now on but directly from the Met Office website, as the BBC weather forecast has been terribly inconsistent since Metrogroup took over in early February; it'll be interesting to see which is more consistent! Didn't help aPIERtite on the Pier though (blog).

And, is this a run up to the 2018 Stade Saturdays? From 2 to 10 pm saw the Stade Open Space stage the Hastings Youth Trust's Hastings Easter Festival! Now, I never knew anything about this happening, maybe I'm too old, but it's a shame there wasn't more publicity!

And I ended up walking up All Saints Street to, cheers!

Cyril & Lilian Bishop update.

Early this month, and the site for where the Cyril & Lilian Bishop will be docked, in front of All Saints Church and opposite the Stables Theatre, on The Bourne. I have written a few times about this retired lifeboat, one of the "Little Ships" that evacuated troops from Dunkirk during WW2, indeed, the only Hastings boat that brought troops off the beach then (though many others helped with other duties during the evacuation process), eg see this blog, which provides a potted history of the boat and the actions of local characters who have brought her 'home' and been restoring her since.

Work on the site started soon after the first photograph was taken, if you would like to know a bit more about the Cyril & Lilian Bishop, here is a little factsheet.

The site is getting nearer to being finished now, I took these last 2 photographs yesterday, and am now waiting eagerly for the boat to be hauled up All Saints Street on the 17th of June 2017, to her final dry dock. By the way, the boat also has a facebook page.

Following on Saturday...

I seemed to be following people about yesterday! Here we have a few 'Cleaners for the Queen' in front of me, wandering back to the Stade...

Later, I followed the Town Crier down All Saints Street!