The earliest invention
For Focus of attention,
But here you’ll find the joke is
It’s always out of focus!
When on midwinter scene
The focus may have been,
You don’t expect to find
A beach, and yachts all lined;
The kids and granddad, though,
Did boogie-boarding go
As focus on a way
To spend the winter day —
(Though focus heard in passing chat,
‘Dem focus crazy to do dat!’)
We are still a week or so off midwinter, and the sea certainly had a bit of a chill to it, but riding waves does warm one up. Not as much as the blaze the pyromaniac ladies of the house lit a bit later as a handy way of reducing the garden refuse!
We need to make full use of that delightful stretch of beach while we can. Developers are due to move in any minute to focus on major construction there, which will naturally destroy its free-and-easy dog-roaming atmosphere. Our watersport clubs seen at the edge of the sand will vanish, to be replaced by monstrosities like the one behind them. Competitions like the regatta for Hobies and Lasers seen in preparation will also be threatened.
What a lovely beach, I can’t believe you are going to lose it.
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Hopefully the beach will remain; the atmosphere will probably change to be like the rest of the commercialised beachfront.
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Ek is dol oor die tweede foto
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Dit is, inderdaad, vol kleur en pret!
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Great groanworthy title
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Thank you for noticing, Derrick. I also debated using a foe kiss, but that would be too soppy.
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You can always rely on Derrick to pick up on such things.
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And history has not yet taught us not to build on the sea front 🙁
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The history yet to be will give us what will probably be a hard lesson . . .
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The human race it seems do not heed warnings 😦
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They also enjoy making mistakes so much that they can’t wait to repeat them.
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As the people at Collaroy NSW are finding out!
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That will be SO sad! Enjoy it while you can!
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We are certainly trying!
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One things for sure. They are definitely NOT English beaches! They have sand on them just like in sunny Australia.
Damn! As usual I’m out of focus with the subject of th post
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South Africa and Australia are definitely ahead on beach-covering matter!
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You won’t get any argument from me on that Leslie!
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You gots to hate developers . . . except . . . we all live in places that used to be as unencumbered by modernity as the ones we now fear for and worry about.
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Of course, you are right. Everywhere we live and work used to be a pristine area unspoilt by ‘progress’ at some stage of its history.
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