Day Outting With The Pofolk. By Uncle Monty.

Day Outting With The Pofolk.

Story and Photos By Uncle Monty.

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Gale force winds with their torrents of biting cold gusts

greeted us on our day trip to England’s Old Town of

Hastings. The large and agile seagulls above us glided abit

uneasily with the big blowing winds. At the seaside town,

The Promenade was a gusty spot to safely watch and see

the huge waves violently attack and lash the almost

empty summertime beach. A little later, thunderous rain

also pelted us relentlessly during its short downpour.

The Old Merry-Go-Round on the beach had been caut-
iously dismantled the night before due to the weather
forecast that was pretty grave. Those gales force winds
would have taken the thing and smashed it to
smithereens within no time at all.
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England's Rocky Hastings.

While the pofolk -and me struggled to walk against
the forceful and lifting winds, our only escape was
to ducked inside some half-forgotten lollipop shop
or a grubby and fleecing amusement arcade. Some
did, while others took an early lunch to be inside and
sheltered from the winds at one of the many seafront
cafes and restaurants. They then felt, no doubt, quite
safe from those gale force winds which seemed to
last forever and a day.
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A Glimpse of Hastings' violent waves at beachside.
I myself headed on foot to St. Leonard's some 3 or 4
miles west of Hastings at where the famous 1066 Battle
of Hastings was fought over 900 years ago. But the battle
is still indelibly marked in the profound history and per-
haps, to some degree, in the national psyche of the
English people. You can read all about the battle:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Hastings
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View of Hastings from the east.
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The youngest of the pofolk was only age six and the oldest
of them was “only” 89. Her daughter was 68. Her grand
daughter was 44 and her great-grand-daughter was age
12. There was in all about 55 pofolk -on our annual day
outting that our Tenants' Association provided free for
all tenants in good standing. I was one of them. How, I
don’t know. I guess it's because I always pay my rent
on time and when it’s due. Most of the pofolk, like me,
had been to Hastings with the same group last
year, too. And many the year before.
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Forlorn boat seemingly left to wither away at Hastings.

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For those who may not know, the word “pofolk” derives from
American slang to refer to “white poor folk,” either folksy or
thrashy or trailer park-type. Such terms were used especially
in the Depression Era by then Southern Negroes when they
saw very poor or destitute whites. A redneck or a white
shearcropper are good examples. To “make a -pomouth” was
someone who made out to be poor or “po” or to stimulate
poverty when in fact they were not poor at all. I really love
American slang for such gives awhole new meaning
to so many common words.
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Subway Mosaic at England's Old Town of Hastings.
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What is nice about Hastings and St. Leonards is that
you can easliy walk pretty well everywhere within
both of the seaside towns without having to drive or
use public transport. That's if you prefer to walk and
save money. It's healthy, too.
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I had planned to write more about the "Day Outting
With The Pofolks," but I don't have alot of time to
do so due to other things taking my time right now.
What I have done is to add more photos at least.
Hope you enjoy them ...
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Out For Cold, For Sure, at St. Leonards.
A Note on Teutonic Injustice.
By Uncle Monty.
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A German court at Dusseldorf sentenced Mike
Konrad, 29, to nine months imprisonment for
having slept in a railway terminal locker for
9 years. He made the locker his home after
walking out on his girlfriend back in 1999.
Mike was then only 20 years of age. To send
him to jail for 9 months is a crime by the court.
Instead of imprisoning him, why in heaven's
name could they not have found him some
kind of hostel or better still some kind of home
he could call his own? The money the German
Government will now spend to put him unjustly
behind bars could well have been spent on
helping the homeless man that he is. I
thought the Nazis were long dead, but it
seems a few are still around sitting in a
Dusseldolf court sending Mike Konrad to
prison for simply being homeless, first and
foremost. The court should immediately
release him and he should file suit against
the court with the European Rights Com-
mission or whoever handles such cases of
blatant injustice. I read the story in the free-
sheet London Life -just last night. I was so
peeved after reading what they did to him
in Germany. The nation should be
ashamed of itself ...
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"Free Us From Freemasonry" is another
story I'm writing and will appear after
my summer holidays ...
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Also, my upcoming story of "Old Photos of British
Bishops" will also appear in the Fall or in the autumn.
I will post some never before seen images of British
Bishops from my rare and own late 19th and
early 20th centuries photographic collection.
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Your's, Uncle Monty.

+Jeremy Taylor, 1667-2008.

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