Osprey

I decided to take a detour on my walk home from the gym. I went via the Victorian terraced house we lived in in the 1970s when our children were little. The terrace was built to accommodate workers at the new railway line which brought people from the city to the horse races on the Haugh, and also provided transport for Lord Armstrong to travel from Cragside to his business on Tyneside. Our house is on the end of the terrace and housed the station master. By the time we lived there the railway line had gone. The house has lovely big rooms with high ceilings - not so good in cold winters as we had no central heating. We had coal fires in the living and dining rooms, and an old Rayburn in the kitchen. Mr C collected sea coal from the beach to fuel that - it was not an easy time as the mortgage interest rates had risen to 15%. The blip is of the stone ospreys which perched above the bedroom windows - they are big enough and still enough for me to blip, unlike live birds.

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