Just to add a bit to your (my!) blog, now that it’s daylight, I can
clearly see the damage below Riviera Terrace; it wasn’t overstating the
case to say the sea wall had been “ripped away! – it has simply
disappeared, leaving the railway lines actually hanging in mid air, like
you see in the movies, when the train has to inch its way gingerly
across just the rails, to the accompaniment of much creaking and
terrifying lurching!  And right below our house, the wall between the
railway line and the pedestrian part of the sea wall  has been
destroyed, and lies in lumps all over the track. Utter devastation!  I
guess it’ll takes weeks to rebuild everything.  Might sadly be the final
death-knell for our railway and sea wall!

Love you my mermaid; actually, it would be quite useful to be a mermaid
here at the moment!

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(So glad to note that my husband actually reads my blog!)