When we got up on Saturday morning, we found that it had snowed during the night, so we were quite happy to head over to Berwick. After lunch we wrapped up warmly and went for a walk on the beach. It was so cold that there was frost on the sand and on the detritus washed up by recent storms (more of that later)
but it was also very clear, and way in the distance we could see Bamburgh Castle ........
........ and Lindisfarne
suddenly, the peace and quiet was shattered by a low-flying helicopter
which hovered over the lighthouse
then hovered even lower over the town
so, to return to all the stuff washed up on the beach. Unfortunately this piece was too big to bring home for the garden
but we collected a bagful of excellent pieces of driftwood for Malcolm's trees and sculptures. The bag was so heavy we had to carry it between us (and a very nice man walking his dog offered to help carry it up the stairs from the beach!). As we were still some distance from the carpark, Malcolm headed off to fetch the car, while I guarded our treasures
while I was waiting, a little fishing boat came chugging into view. That presented the usual dilemma - as the lighthouse would be in the photo with the boat, should it be on the left .......
......... or on the right?!
after Malcolm picked me up, we drove back round to the carpark and headed off on to another section of the beach to collect more driftwood (I shall have to take photos when Malcolm sorts it all out in the garage). My shadow came with me!
on Sunday morning I got up and looked out of the window, to find that it had snowed in the night!! These first photos were taken at just after eight, when I should have been making breakfast!
then these were taken about an hour later
I was quite excited at the thought of taking lovely snowy photos on the beach - but by the time we were showered and dressed it was raining heavily, and the snow was rapidly disappearing! So we had to console ourselves with going for a cuppa, and a very delicious cheese and sun dried tomato scone
and to finish ........ we would have loved to have brought a wooden sign home from our Australian trip, but of course that wasn't possible, so instead we bought a tea towel, which Malcolm mounted in an Ikea frame. The place names are a wonderful reminder of some of the places we visited on our trip - including the excellent Yackandandah!