A walk on the beach – a little pain – and new Police Drama! in The odd entries from life …….

I was on the beach this morning and it felt almost summery, we’ve had sunny days and looked lovely as a photograph, but it’s heard to capture a cold rind under a clear blue sky; but on the sand you knew all about it! To capture the best of this pleasant day you needed to take care witch way your looking …..

Looking out to sea.

Looking in-land.

Quite often we have the best weather out to sea, while in land there seems no resin to go there! I had a short walk on the beach, it was while I was taking the in-land image I realized I hadn’t purchased a parking ticket, so I made my way to one of the ticket machines; yes machines now and a few locals have lost their jobs!

The west side of Perranporth beach.

I was ok the man in the little white van hadn’t been round, and I had by then a ticket in the car, and I went to a bench with a view of the sea. I hadn’t run up the beach as running has never been my thing, my tumble eighteen months ago when I pulled my hamstring hasn’t improved things, then there was last week! We have a free standing circular washing line, it is made of aluminium and without help it can blow over in the lest wind, and nor is it robust as several home made repaired will show.

The bridge on the beach and diggers!

There is a wooden pole up through the aluminium tube, to give some extra stiffness, and the two lengths of wood attached to one foot that brook of after a few windy days! Last year it was up on the meadow, but the four bags of stones that kept it on the ground went brittle and the stones scattered.

East end of Perranporth beach.

This year it is on the patio, and we needed something to keep the circular washing line on the patio, we decided on sand, so I went of to the garden centre. When I found the sand it was outside, three types of sand in a row with ‘kids sand’ at the front, next the ‘silver sand’ and last the ‘builders sand’ As the silver sand is useful in lighting soil when potting plants was what I went for.

The incoming tide.

There had been some rain, and as I reached over the kids sand I thought this sand is heavy, each bag seemed to feel heaver, I also got some seed compost withed seemed rather lighter. The truck with my sand and compost was heavy pushing, the truck was near the same height as my car, so I swung the sand into the back of the car. When I got home I stopped and looked at the steps up to the patio, my back was feeling painful and I knew I couldn’t carry the bags up there.

Chapel Rock all at sea.

My son took them up and he commented on the weight, so our circular washing line is anchored to the patio, and I am moving about with care! I think the bags being out in the rain must have added at least a third to the weight, in future I shall play the age card and ask for help; for now I shall play the mind my back card.

The far end of the beach, and the Life Guards as back for a new season.

Just now we are happy to have programmes recorded on our set-top-box, or on DVD’s and Blu-rays, this time of year our television channels go very dull. There are just two programmes I watch in a week, ‘The Crimson Field’ a fictional series about a field hospital in World War One France, the production and cast are very good, the script is good with one exception, there is to much going on – every thing that could happen in a war is happing at this one field hospital making it a little soap’ish; that apart it is very good. The other programme is very good, a police detective series set in Wales and made by BBC S4C, a Welish Language cannel. In Wales it is know as ‘Y Gwyll’ and for us English as ‘Hinterland’ The script is written in Welsh and English, we get sub titles for the Welsh. The production values are up there with the new European Police dramas, Wallander, Shetland, Borgan and The Killing. The setting of Hinterland will be familiar to those who holiday in Mid Wales, the stories are set in Aberystwyth. It was aired on S4C last year and we are just getting it now, the switching between Walsh and English works well; as the Walsh People seem at home with our language as theirs. Very few of us Brits have much Walsh of course …..

Hwyl fawr ….

Last updated May 07, 2014