Sunny.

Today it has been bright and breezy with the sun making the waves sparkle. There were already two surfers out in the water by 8.00 this morning and by breakfast time (below) there were more surfers trying their best to catch the big waves. There have been surfers out all day and now that it is nearly dark only the last couple remain on the water.

This was our week to meet up with our friends in Mach to work on our Welsh. The librarians were so fiendly and welcomed us with a bag of Welsh cakes, a cross between scones and pancakes, to have with the coffees we'd brought along. We had our usual fun going over one of the exercises we did last week in class and then listening to the homework conversation. It seemed clearer from my friend's phone and we were able to work out the information we needed. We finished off by translating the first half of another book for learners until the library closd at 1.00. Back again in a fortnight.

While Peter took our folders back to the car my friends and I cruised the charity shops and this time I struck lucky. Another glass paperweight for my collection, much nicer than the blue jellyfish one I rejected and only £3 and a couple of Alison Utley books which I bought for the illustrations. The older one has a few pen marks so I don't feel so bad about cutting out the illustrations to make Christmas cards while the newer edition has some lovely Christmas themed illustrations. Less than £1 for both.

It was such a good drying day that when we got home I threw some washing in the machine and hung out yesterday's wash which hadn't quite dried on the line yesterday. While the machine was doing its job what better to do than go for a walk on the beach?

Back home I hung out the washing from the machine and did a few small jobs until it was dry enough to iron.

A few trees from yesterday.

This tree was dead having lost all its bark either prior to or after its demise. It was interesting to see the way the plant tissues had grown in a spiral.

This (above) was the 120 ft tree in the holiday park. Definitely a redwood though I don't know if it's a giant sequoia or a california redwood. There is a giant sequioa at Wakehurst which is a similar size, 36m, so this one may well be a Giant Sequioa. Thousands were planted by wealthy Victorians in the 1850s when there was a craze for having arboretums, arboreta? in the grounds of large houses. At the base two people together wouldn't be able to reach their arms around it.

Another of the ornamental conifers but definitely a different species.