Newsletter - 28/08/2015

Osborne’s Seafood & Old Leigh Delicacies

We have a wonderful melting pot of cuisines right on our doorstep, and some great restaurants to match. But that got me thinking, have I neglected our local cuisine? 
The cuisine, which brings tourists far and wide to our little corner of Essex. I guess I really mean local ‘delicacies’, the sort of food you can’t find anywhere else. Where do you find that? It’s just got to be Old Leigh and the Cockle Sheds.

Head or heart?

When people are trying to buy properties it is difficult to categorise them into whether they are people that buy with their heads or their hearts.

So many other factors come into the equation that usually people tend to fall somewhere in the middle. There has to be boring factors taken into consideration like price, school catchment areas, a basic number of bedrooms and/or condition, but a house surely has to appeal to the heart as well, it has to be pretty at least?

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I *can* stand the rain

Sometimes, great weather can be overrated. Yeah, it's lovely when the sun is out, and there are blue skies, and suncream smells drift off people as they pass you in the street, but there's a whole other side to hot weather that I can't stand. You can't walk anywhere without breaking out in a sweat. Everywhere is crowded. People flock to the seafront like lemmings and queues for a crisp cold pint can be eight people deep at the bar. 

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