Spring is sprung

Here's the Solent from Cowes parade, looking particularly spectacular on a glorious sunny Sunday....(no pun intended).











And here is Freshwater Bay on the west coast of the Isle of Wight, I'm looking down from Tennyson Down.

This down is named after Alfred, Lord Tennyson (writer of Charge of the Light Brigade and other well loved English poems) who lived nearby and loved walking there. On a day like this you can see why. Although the picture doesn't show the piercingly cold wind that was whipping across the down.

And here's a link to some antiquerian views of the Isle of Wight and some more information on it: http://www.freshwater.shalfleet.net/freshwater3.htm

A soft Southerner's view of Lancashire

Southerners in England are renowed for not knowing anything about the North of England, but I'd like to be the exception!!

When people talk about the North of England, they often think of the cities and the towns but round them is fabulous scenery and landscape.

Just outside Bolton you're straight onto the moors, fantastic semi wild areas with lots of space and sky. A great place to walk or cycle.



I took the opportunity of Easter to go and visit friends who live in Lostock, near Bolton. These pictures are all from Easter Saturday walking round Entwhistle Reservoir. The first one is a shot of a really sweet idea, an Easter tree with eggs and toys for children.

Here is Entwhistle Reservoir itself. Spring is still getting a toehold here, so the trees are still brown rather than green.




And here are some spring buds (very small on the tree) and some rather sad looking dry stone wall.

Foolish things...

April Fool's Day - where did that come from? I don't know and I suspect that if I started to Google it I could waste a serious amount of time (no change there then). But there were some very good things around on 1st April this year, my favourites were:

Google Romance, the people that revolutionised online searching want to revolutionise dating - http://www.google.com/romance/index.html What could be better?


The Guardian's report on Chris Martin's support of David Cameron due to his green credentials http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1744447,00.html

and even better the lyrics of a song "he's written" for David Cameron
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1744448,00.html

Woooo hoooo

It was very windy this Sunday, very windy indeed, here we are on Pocket Battleship with it all going horribly wrong.....leading to a short stint on our side. Oddly enough the boat doesn´t sail quickly like that.