On Saturday afternoon, while Malcolm was out, I caught up on some way-overdue housekeeping on my laptop. First was my "favourites" list, where I have all the blogs I read, the on-line shops I use, a few YouTube music videos and some quilting tutorials. A lot of things were deleted, and the list was reorganised into categories ...... a good job done! Next, I sorted out my photos. I take lots of photos, and I always mean to keep on top of things, putting them into the appropriate folders, and deleting those which were taken for the blog and don't need to be kept. So I won't have to wade through dozens of daily folders to find the photos for today's post, after a very serious amount of delete, delete delete!!
I made some honey butter on Saturday - I first encountered this when we were in Australia last year, but only made it once when we got back home, but for some reason I remembered about it on Saturday. There was just enough honey left in the jar .......
....... to beat into some softened butter
the delicious honey butter was spread on toasted teacakes to have with our afternoon cuppa
you can see that the lifeboat was travelling at speed - but this was on the way back to the lifeboat station, not on the way out to a rescue!
I have lots of photos from what we did yesterday morning, so I will save them for tomorrow, and instead show you what happened in the afternoon. First, we went for a walk on the beach - there were two little boats flying along on the stiff breeze
we made a new friend
of course there has to be a photo of the lighthouse
and Bamburgh Castle away in the distance
a little clump of beach detritus
most of the groynes have been covered up as the sand has shifted over the winter
but the little bit left exposed provided me with two arty photos
after our walk, we headed along to the old bridge to wait for the float parade. We could see over to "Reaper", which had its sail raised, as the wind had dropped
we had a little while to wait for the parade to appear, so we succumbed to temptation
at last the parade appeared, led for some reason by a police riot van!!
later in the afternoon, there was a flurry of activity on "Reaper", as the sail was lowered and secured
then she swung round
and headed round the channel and out to sea
and to finish ...... on Saturday afternoon the swans suddenly took off at a great rate of knots, heading out of the dock
what had spooked them? A crowd of rowdy canoeists!