Bitterly Cold.

The pink of the dawn thankfully was not followed by rain. Instead it's been a clear day with few clouds until later in the afternoon. All day long the strong easterly winds brought the bitter cold. (A quick check of the forecast says 7C or 8C tomorrow morning so no need to put anything over the car windscreen.)

We had to be up early this morning as Peter had his regular appointment at the hospital for an injection into his knee. Parking is impossible at the hospital so I drove down into town to wait for Peter to let me know when he was ready to be collected. I just had time to drop off some stuff at the Climate Shop and stock up on throat sweets before he phoned.

We were home in good time to prepare for our Welsh class. I joined Zoom with plenty of time to spare, checked the sound and video then at the last minute the timer went round and round without connecting. I ended up having to turn my PC off and starting again before I could join the class.

The class didn't seem too hard today. Though we did start with a lengthy dictation. I struggled to write quickly enough but our tutor read the passage through twice so I filled in most of my missing words. It's the prepositions that catch you out. Y, yr, i'r and ar all sound similar so you have to rely on which one would be correct grammatically. Then we went over adjectives to describe activities/ tv programmes while also learning the sentence structure to use when saying I think ...... in Welsh which is quite different to the English. Luckily I've come across it a lot in Duo and in my head translate it as I think that ...... which is not quite accurate but works.

After class I needed to get some milk and also to pick up my prescription from the pharmacy. Naturally I combined that with a beach walk where I tried to capture the light on the waves.

With so many variables; the sea, the wind, the light and the tide the view is constantly changing. Something I never get bored with. You can understand why artists love to paint the sea. I'll make do with my trusty camera.