Another Walk At The Ayres

Spent a relaxing morning just chatting about many different things down the boathouse whilst the Lifeboat was out on exercise. I had the chance to go out on the boat but declined as during the week, Thursday to be exact I had a small operation to have a mole removed from my side and I didn't want to do anything too strenuous as to make the stitches come undone as they did the last time I had a similar procedure which resulted in an unpleasant looking scar on my left shoulder. It made a change to sit around and just chat mosltly about boats and RNLI things as well as having a skeet at the Lifeboat on exercise through the high powered binoculars that we have in the crew room.........Back home after a beach recovery G and I decided to go out for a walk with Mollie so we went again to The Ayres this time on the west coast at the visitors centre and though it was very windy (when is it going to stop) we all had a brilliant time. Regular readers of this blog will know that one of my pet hates is dog owners not cleaning up after their dogs and I must say that there is way too much mess up here at The Ayres it's a disgrace. Anyway being responsible owners we always pick it up and drop it in a bin. Today was no different but it was a major task trying to tie the bag up as it was been blown around like nobodies business in the very strong winds. I'm sure if people were watching me they would have thought I'd gone a little crazy and that I was doing a very poor imitation of a windmill, when in fact I was trying to not let the contents fall out on me. It didn't help that Mollie being awkward deposited two lots so I ended up doing it twice, oh the joys of pet ownership. I did as normal take my camera with me and took pics of local pigs which you for some reason don't see out in fields that often as well as the usual on the beach......And now for something a little different........ piccies from someone else, though the subject is the one I keep on falling back on and that being the weather. Carol who lives in Vancouver on the western coast of Canada sent me a couple of pics which she kindly said I could post on here of the latest snowfall that they experienced last week. They were taken from her balcony and look fantastic, thanks Carol. Just wish we had snow like that as everywhere looks so nice.