Once more
there’s been a little while between my last post and this one. Here in the UK it’s hot hot hot at
present. I'm sure you’ll be well aware
of that though so there’s really no point me utilising extraneous words to
portray the nastiness of an office that’s 27⁰ at 8.30am and has climbed to 29+⁰
by lunchtime, or the unpleasant feeling when you get up and know your skirt has
stuck to the backs of your legs in some sort of nasty take on the embarrassing tucking
it into your knickers theme, or the constant watering needed of any plant in a
pot or, or or…&c &c.
In fact I like watering the plants as it
enforces a little reflective time and the cool water in the warm evening is
very pleasant when accidentally spilt on your feet. J
Anyway, no
particular thing to post but thought I’d share a few pics taken recently of
things I found interesting. Excuse the
quality of some; they came from my (very old) 2mp phone.
Shortly
after the last post I saw the cygnets out of the water, grazing up on the
banks. Here they are looking
lovely. They’re a fair bit bigger than
this now!
Speaking about
the plants (I was you know – do try
and pay attention…) you can see our flourishing fig here, this was just a 3”
high twig when we got this from the Eden project 2 years ago. Not doing too badly huh? You can see one of the chillies in the window
behind. We have 3 others in the plastic
plant house thing out the back having cheated and got 4 plants from the food
fest in April as we (I) were a bit late with the seed planting this year. All this hot weather is doing them wonders
too.
As the Chap
has been working continuously it seems like – or all days, every evening and
mostly all weekends, my friend took pity on me last Saturday and invited me
along to the beach with her, her husband, his sister and her husband and their 2 kids. We took the train to Teignmouth – a great
piece of line that runs right along the sea, then the little ferry boat across
the estuary to Shaldon on the opposite side.
I had a lovely paddle – here’s your proof! This is looking back over to the ‘back beach’
at Teignmouth, with the harbour entrance on the right. As previously mentioned, apols for the
quality but I took this on my phone to send it to the Chap. Show him what he was missing! (Was that mean?)
Over the last few months I've noticed a rash of graffiti around that all seems to be done by the same hand. Now I'm not averse to writings that make you pause for thought or well executed street art but this person is starting to annoy me. You see their idealistic anarchy 'A' symbols all over the place including where it really does detract from the environs. And I'm sorry my child, but anarchy would never work as unfortunately someone has to make sure the bins are emptied and the water keeps running &c.
Anyway - see what you think of this little lot. I'm not entirely sure what Brian Eno has to do with anything though... :-)
We had a lovely walk along the beach spotting pretty shells and rocks. Chap saw a tiny starfish that was immediately washed away by the next wave but then I spotted it as well on the returning wave. Here it is before we safely returned it to the welcoming embrace of the sea.
A baby razor clam shell.
The afternoon ticked away as we dawdled along the coast, scrambling over rocks and picking up varied pieces of wood, rock and an unattached buoy. 
