Paradise found? [Scanned]

It is so easy, sometimes, to take for granted what there is around us.  I’ve taken to driving to work a slightly longer way every morning, but a way that takes me down onto the Esplanade with its palm trees and grassy strip before the sea stretches out (or the mudflats depending on the tide – you can’t have everything) and it’s beautiful.  Even in the rain and wind it just amazes me to think that I live here, almost in paradise, every day.  In a place where people come for once in a lifetime holidays - and I LIVE here.   We went for a walk along the beach the other day.  It’s a two minute walk from our front door and it stretches for ages.  People were laughing, swimming and further down, kite surfing.  It was windy but clear and still absolutely lovely.   I have a wonderful husband, a lovely home, a car and a boat.  It couldn’t really get much better than this.