A lovely trip to Scarborough

Tina had a day off today and had planned to get in the garden but it was a drab day with rain forecast. We both had things we wanted in Sainsbury’s so we decided on a trip to Scarborough. I made up flasks as we thought we would have lunch at the mere. Even the drive, passing things we hadn’t seen for a while. There was a queue at Sainsbury’s but it was very orderly and it wasn’t long before we were in the store. First time I have been in a large supermarket since before the lockdown begun.

Shopping done and Tina drove us down to the bays. She pulled over long enough for me to take a couple of photos of the north bay.

Then she drove round the south bay and along to the Spa one where she stopped for me again.

Then off to the mere, it was raining so we had our lunch in the car and then bought bags of bird food. We have never seen them so hungry or violently aggressive with each other. One young bird had a damaged wing and we saw some others nearly get damaged while we fed them. We think that not so many people have been gong there as usual.

Some more shots that don’t need much description.

Not done yet, Tina drove us up to Oliver’s Mount.

We called in at a garden centre on the way home, I needed more compost and Tina needed more sand, got a few more plants as well! Then home, a really lovely day out, the first proper trip out in a long time.

Will finish tonight with an amazing picture from my National Geographic mails.

This is by a Danish artist called Thomas Dambo, he makes sculptures from recycled wood and places them in less known green spaces around the world!