A Christmas passed. in The odd entries from life …….

28th of December 2016.

Yesterday’s washing is out on the line, we have a clear blue sky and a little wind, I’m hoping to save a little money by not using the spinner; I feel I should be out with my camera.

When I was working we had two weeks off, they wanted to save on heating, so we had the days between Christmas and New Year, it was nice to be out on days just lake today.

I remember a walk we had when my and Gill’s parents were fit and getting out, we all got to gather ad we went Ellesmere, a small town in north Shropshire; as you enter the town we pass an expanse of water – The Mere.

The area round Ellesmere was dotted with Mere’s, The Mere is remembered for a row of trees on the fare side of the Mere, one night all the trees sunk down into the Mere, just the tops above the water. All the Mere were left by the retreating of the Ice Age, some 10,000 years, there are nine large Meres.

Our aim was Cole Mere that had a yachting club, and a path round the Mere, it was cold with ice and snow under foot, then the sky was clear with a wind; we were dressed for the weather with good boots.

The only sound was the ropes on the yachts hitting the masts, being out of any buildings the walk was quiet; the path winding through trees and the edge of the Mere. In those days I was using film cameras, mostly transference film [slides] for the better colour than prints! A lot of those were lost by the damp in our last home ……….

Where were at the edge of the Mere we could see the water was frozen over, the serves lettered with stones and sick’s, I slid a stone onto the ice, the water had dropped a little and the ice stressed and the sound of the stone was amplified!

At the end of the walk we found some benches with a view of Cole Mere, we brought out the sewages and flasks; mine had soup to warm me.

Christmas passed.

Last updated December 28, 2016