Seascape

My daughter found a roll of foil, from some previous barbeque, and started running round me with it streaming behind. I popped off a couple of quick shots before she ran out steam. This is the result.

Another bitterly cold East Coast winters day sheltering in the dunes at the top of Southwold beach. I don't know who the solitary figure is but he was the only person brave enough to be out on the freezing shore. I could see him from afar as I walked from the town down towards the harbour. He stood there, motionless, on the beach staring out to sea. He was still there in the same position when I moved on to find some warmth and comfort in the harbour Inn. Sad or thoughtful - who can tell.

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Wheal Coates, just to the south of St Agnes Head, Cornwall, an area with many old tin and copper mines

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Royal Navy (Coastal Forces) Fairmile B MGB and S130, an S38b class Schnellboot or E-Boat. Both built 1943. Thank goodness for the bolster.

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Accessable only by sea

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This is a day that is a speciality of the East Coast and not one where you would willingly put your head above the parapet. A bitterly cold nor'easter blows in across the North Sea from the Arctic, a wind that so sharp that it would cut a person in two without drawing blood. Out at sea a pumping barge is at anchor, battling to hold its own. I'm off now to find a good warm fire, good company and a pint of Adnams.