High Tide

An early start this morning. A visit to Grimsby first thing to spend some of the book tokens we have accumulated. Purchased a nice easy to understand bird book to help with the identification of some of the birds I manage to capture. Looked at several beginners guides to photography, but decided to come home and check out what I had already got. A box is in readiness for a number of older books to be sent to the charity shop. One book I would have dearly loved to buy,n but didn't have anyone to buy it for was Safari Imagine a field guide to all the animals you'd encounter on an African safari, but instead of looking at a photograph of them in the book you're reading, you're actually seeing a small film clip on the page of the animal in motion. It's a "PhoticularTM Book" - a lenticular-based technology that transfers fluid 4-colour movies onto a book page. It was fantastic, but as I said we have no one to buy it for. Both Phil and agreed ti was the sort of book we would have loved to have owned as a child.

Another fairly fruitless afternoon on the photographic side. We wnt to Donna Nook and have discovered since we got home that the coast guard was up there making an RAF flare safe. Then a trip to the woods, and again nothing really about. Even the scenery was quite bland because of the dull weather. Finally our favourite haunt, Saltfleet Haven. This is a photograph taken from the entrance to the Haven. The mist is starting to come in along with the tide, and frankly it was freezing cold. So not a particularly inspired shot, but one that illustrates the day perfectly. Cold and Drab.

This evening heating on, feet up and a DVD - Heaven.