I chose the number 5, for these 5 members of my family settling down for a 5pm tea after a long English sea side afternoon. We'd built sandcastles and eaten ice cream. Uncle Will had threatened to throw the boys in the water and they ran away screaming with terror and delight at the prospect. As memory serves me Uncle Will ended up in the drink, dumped there by his sister (er, me) and his girlfriend. There had been rock pooling and some game involving a bat and a ball and rules that remain unknown. And at 5pm, vibrant with windburn and fresh air, we'd gone back to the beach hut, settled in for a lovely cup of tea with some lemon drizzle cake and enjoyed the view.
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Has to be the Isle of Wight. where else to spend a 'typical English seaside afternoon'? GREAT pic!
Love your photo - there's something quintessentially "British" about it, though I couldn't really put my finger on exactly what!
Love it. What a great pic and wonderful memories. Think the deckchairs are what makes it so British!
That is a photo to be framed and what a wonderful sounding day. Days like that are priceless. :0)
Really makes you wonder why we ever fly away in the summer. I've never had a typically English summer day - which is, in my mind at least, quite different from a typically Scottish one.
I want one - you've sold it :)
Love it love it. It looks like one of those photo birthday cards I always buy because it looks so British.
Absolutely cracking photo x
what a fabulous picture - so reminiscent of holidays of my childhood
Paradise - but of course! You should recognise the view too, see the fort in the sea in the distance?
Caroline - I think it is the deck chairs and long sleeves!
Kelly - me too! We are both on the number 5 and seaside views today!
Nova - It is on my list of things to do, to frame this photo.
Mrs W - Oh, English summer afternoons by the sea are wonderful! Try one and I'll try a Scottish one too.
Tara - brilliant meme, I love this Gallery idea.
Heather - the British seaside afternoon is so timeless. I'm sure the boys'll be doing exactly the same with their grandkids!
What an absolutely lovely photo. Those chairs are so completely British. I can remember sitting on chairs like that as a child. Very Martin Parr, missus.
What a great photo! So evocative of an English summer.
Ah, English summer, when will you arrive? What a great photo! Very 'seaside holiday'.
I love this photo, reminds me of a postcard a friend once sent me from Brighton. I like the idea of eating cake in a beach hut too, I've never been in one and that sounds the perfect use for it!
A fantastic, perfect British photo. I love it. And family, love that too.
What a great photo and great post...nothing quite like a bucket & spade day at the seaside!
Fantastic photo and so well described - I could smell the sea air and taste the lemon drizzle cake. Fabulous!
A perfect English day at the seaside. Such great memories for when you are far from "home". Lovely.
MD xx
Ooh, that's fabulous. Brings back lots of childhood memories of visiting Sutton-on-Sea.
Ah, it's just so English. Lovely. I don't often feel homesick but that makes me want to go back....x
What a lovely photo, just makes me even more impatient for the summer to arrive so we can do it all over again. :)
I really love this shot! Oh so British. It just sums up the British summer for me.
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Gorgeous, look at that sky
Wonderful - love the clouds and the mix of chairs, so awfully British.
One would assume you're all wearing Boden too ;-)
They haven't got that in Bosnia!
Absolutely love that photo, it's so...British!
That sounds like the perfect British Summer's day to me, We love rock pooling, and lemon drizzle cake. Brilliant happy pic.
I think this picture captures a day at the english beach perfectly. I love it.
Lovely picture, all that's missing is a knotted hanky. x
such a lovely pic!
LOVE this! x
Lovely photo - lovely sky.
Thanks all for your lovely comments. Glad to bring a bit of an English summer into a wet and miserable March.
Owen - Bosnia, not known for its seaside. Neum is ok, but nothing like the Isle of Wight!
CalifLorna - photo taken the same day as the previous Bodenesque catalogue shot of the boys. You have a good eye, but no Boden in sight. Except maybe Mum but you can't see her on the left.
Agree that does look very British. In the US they'd be in lounge chairs. Makes me feel like a holiday.
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