It was a nice sunny day and I didn’t feel like cooking lunch so I persuaded my late husband, Mac, to come with me for a drive in the country. We were both disabled but with our adapted car and wheelchairs were mobile.
Living in a built-up area we made for the countryside and decided to find an accessible Inn for a bar meal. It wasn’t long before I realised that the village we had reached Cow Beech in East Sussex, was near Rushlake Green where my parents had started their married life some 90 years ago. As I write this I am well into my seventies and was born in another area of East Sussex so I had only heard about my Mother and Father’s early life together.
Mac and I went into the Merry Harriers, which we now know as my Mother and Father’s “local” and ordered some refreshments. As we sat waiting for our meal we glanced around us to see many pictures on the walls of pub regulars in the 1920’s. “ “Wouldn’t it be funny” said Mac “if your Dad was up there?”. As I waited I looked down at a place mat on the table and there looking up at me was my Father and Uncle amongst a group of Gentlemen enjoying a drink outside the very pub we were then in.
I think this incident has to be the most memorable in my life span and cannot help thinking that fate led me there.
I was fortunate to be able to purchase the mat from the Landlord and now have a permanent reminder of my country lunch.
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