Upbeat Christmas Post

With a three word title including a capitalised word in the middle, you just have to have a capital start to the last word as well. And certainly, if you post a serious, sad post the previous night, it's important to follow it with a bright, upbeat effort the day after.

Today we're off to .... well we haven't really decided yet. It was going to be Crackington Haven, or possibly Trebarwith Strands, maybe Wembury, or even Widemouth, but we've been a bit put off by the black ice we encountered last night on our return from the pub. The whole Close was a like a skating rink. Not pleasant. Well not when you're in your forties, but thirty years back and we'd have launched ourselves and slid most of the way back to the house.

But that's not going to happen today, not on purpose anyway.

So we're going to have lunch at home - blue cheese and salad cream in a ciabatta - probably venture out after lunch and then back in time to cook a chicken roast for tonight.

More later ...

Poised we were ... and following that, we drove off, parked the car just below Sharpitor, prised on our ice grip thingies and walked down to The Cascades. Now, do you want arty, detailed descriptions of what we saw? Or do you want the piccies?

Alright then ...

At the top we have the first picture on this blog of a leat - the Devonport Leat no less - swinging across the along the gradient towards the Cascades.

Next, here's a duplicate of the Cascades - basically the Devonport Leat descending the hillside - and the associated competition is to spot Clover, here in her natural habitat, camouflaged amongst the snow and rocks.

Following that, there's a close view of the weird ice deposits that seem to have collected around the grass tufts by the leat. I reckon they were created by water spray from the leat deposited on the tufts.

And lastly, and doctored slightly, this is the sun sinking below Sharpitor.

So that was out Christmas day. At least those parts when we didn't consume much. Now it's time to settle down for a chicken roast, attached trimmings, a glass of Weisse Beer and later, maybe Doctor Who.