There hasn't been seating outside Costa for weeks and we've missed it. We always sat outside with Nell, because dogs weren't allowed inside. These days they are welcome, and some days there are several inside, all quiet and wolfing down their puppacinos!!
There was scaffolding up for quite a while, we assumed it was to allow the flats above to be painted. But the scaffolding came down last week and still no seats.
When we were there on Wednesday, we asked were they going to put seats outside again? Jodi who seems to be in charge told us, they were waiting for a firm to clean the awning of gull and pigeon droppings! The scaffolding had been there, so that the poop mess could be cleaned off the building. Evidently the firm contracted to do this had been booked last summer but still hadn't done the awning!
So one of the problems of being in a seaside town.. Opposite Costa is the old Coop building, now a Pound Shop and they have a hole in the side of their roof overhang and we watch the pigeons fly in and out.
Our dawn chorus at 5 ish is the squawking of gulls!
Isn't the Costa building grand? I think it might have been a bank!
Chrisxx
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The Costa building is lovely. I always appreciate good architecture, we have a lot of shops in very old buildings on our Morecambe sea front too ... and we do have chairs outside the Costa there, but we drink in a small independent café that the dogs used to love instead.
When we came back from holiday last week my car was splattered with seagull poop! What a lovely old building.
It does look like a lovely old storefront of some sort. Very impressive when it was built. I never gave it much thought that you live so close that you have all the bird poop from big birds around. Being landlocked I don't have that problem. It turned cold last night unbelievably cold. August 1st and temporarily summer just stopped but next week it's coming right back.
We have Canada geese. They poop in flight. As we notice from cars newly decorated, arghgh.
It is indeed a lovely building. It is hard to find reliable workers!
UK seems to be so much more liberal about where dogs are welcome than here in NZ. However seats outside for summer in UK has gone from novel to norm in a relatively short time and I wonder they hadn't put them back anyway - awning or not.
Yes, the Costa building looks lovely.
All the best Jan
It is a lovely building! Warm greetings from a 68 year old retired lady living in Montreal, Canada....and yes, we have Canada geese. :)
quite a grand building! I remember our stay in Aberystwyth, where it was the gulls that woke me in the morning.
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