The Men in Orange

As you may know already from previous blog posts, the men who work to repair the sea wall in front of our place wear orange overalls; they also wear hard hats and ear protectors. While I was painting the railings on the sea side of our house today I noticed that many of the men had northern accents. I wanted to call out, “Thank you for saving our sea wall!”, but they were busy and I was too busy even to turn around. During a break in my painting endeavours I ran upstairs and grabbed both of my cameras; I don’t know if they saw me taking photo’s of them and the pontoon in the distance. These are our heroes…