On academic sabbatical this year, and one of the perks is not being tied to the schedule of meetings and classes, which means that I can accompany my partner to Northumberland for a week. Both of us are working during the day, one sorting out someone elses archives, and another catching up on reading (my challenge this week: to read a novel relevant to my research which is in Catalan, a Romance language I am not familiar with but can, with the aid of a dictionary, interpret adequately... have completed 200 pages out of 399!).
The evenings, though, are our own, and last night we dashed with a friend down to the beach at Beadnell. It was a rare evening without rain, though the sea was rough:
We toasted the three brave Guillemots that bobbed unperturbed on the crashing waves with a glass of bubbly wine.
Hope to snap a shot of a castle or two tomorrow on our return home!
4 comments:
Sounds lovely!
Aren't Northumberland's beaches wonderful? And so often you can have them all to yourselves. Enjoy the rest of your week, despite the weather....
I can't help but think with that wild and woolly weather I would be reaching for the wimpy hot chocolate thermos option...
how lovely and civilised!
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