A Walk on the Wild Side....
Well....only wild in the sense that it was extremely windy yesterday!!
Went to see the bluebell wood, just down the road from me. I've missed the bluebells this past couple of years and was hoping to catch them in full bloom yesterday, but they were on their way out. They'd also got really battered by the gales that we had a couple of days ago, so all their leaves were flat on the floor! Still made for a beautiful sight though, carpeting the entire woodland in blue
That wind really did a lot of damage...saw at least a half dozen trees down, and huge 20' branches strewn all over the footpath. Of course, I had to stop and pet everyone's doggies en route too!
Always enjoy that. My old boxer would have been picking up all those huge branches and dragging them along until he would get them wedged and then he would tug and pull at them until they broke free, when he would be all pleased with himself, and proudly trot on with whatever remained of the branch! 
Went down to the loch edge, to where I like to sit on the boat jetty, but the boat jetty was a bit worse for wear!! It had a pretty bad tilt to the port side, and I wasn't sure if I should risk it....but you know me.... "Dangerous Jan"!!
Couldn't help myself The loch looked amazing...the water had turned a deep slate-green and was covered in white horses, as the wind whipped it up...looked more like the Atlantic Ocean! Every time a wave hit the jetty it would judder really badly and I thought.... "Hope I can still swim!!!" 
Even the hares seemed to be enjoying the wind and the sunshine....running all over the fields, looking like they were just running for the sheer pleasure of it!
The swallows were having the time of their lives too....They were flitting in and out of the corner of the wood and flying into the wind (no doubt catching flies), before hitting the full force of the wind as it came around the corner, resulting in them being flipped back around and blown about 100mph back the way they had come! I went and stood right underneath them, and could see them in all their beautiful detail. Such pretty and elegant birds 
Had to teach myself to weave last night!...my bamboo screening had been ripped apart by the gale so I had to figure a way of repairing it. Was out there for half an hour and by the time I got back inside I was like an iceberg!
Thawed out, to my pretend wood-burning stove, and watched a rom-com called "Catch and Release". I must admit, that I only initially watched it as I have a silly school-girl crush on Timothy Olyphant 
, but actually the film turned out to be a little gem of film. I was crying and laughing my way through the entire movie... another wonderful character-led story from the creator of Erin Brockovich.
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What a wonderful day you had. So much going on, you are one lucky lady. Glad you felt well enough to go and spend the day in the outdoors which i know you love.
Take Care.
GERALDINE.
Thanks for stopping by
It wasn't actually a day out...all of this is on my doorstep! I won't be able to stay in this house as it is too expensive, but now you can see why I am so reluctant to leave!!
Yeah, it is annoying when the videos don't work. It seems to happen the other way around as well, as I sometimes post them and folks across the pond can't open them