A Winter Bimble

But what does the dictionary say?

Nothing, as it happens. There's no such word as Bimble according to the 1969 reprint (with corrections) of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. So what does it mean?

Well, today saw us joined by Abby, Daisy and Rachel, Paul having been dropped off at Turnchapel for an afternoon of 'Boy's Stuff' in and around the yacht basin. The rest of us drove round the headland to Heybrook Bay where we lunched at a secret place then bimbled along the coast almost to Wembury.

Here's what the view look like while we bimbled.

And later, after we'd bimbled a bit, it looked like this.

For completists, the triangular lump of rock sticking out from the water is known as 'The Great Mew Stone'.

And here we have five girls on a rock, a phrase that certainly deserves a punch line.

So back to Bimble. With nothing in the Shorter OED, a visit to the Urban Dictionary is in order. Here's what it says:

To amble without real aim, yet in a friendly and harmless manner. It's not required to achieve nothing, though it is a frequent side-effect.

Apparently it means more than that and other stuff besides, but that'll do for The Leat, and it's a perfect description of our afternoon on the coast between Heybrook and Wembury.