Having fun on a murky day
It was one of those days when you just need a breath of air. Salt spray, the wind in your hair… Roker Pier. Where else? A stride across the sands, rain at your back… Then back along the cliff top, past Bede’s Memorial.
No children in the playground. It’s a bit damp, and the big brothers and sisters will be in school.
Jack Sparrow’s on his own this weekend. Our first snow arrived overnight.
What did you get up to this week? Got time to share six words with Cate?
Enjoy your weekend, whatever you have planned. I’ll see you on Monday, for a walk? We have a date with some waterfalls.
Brrr…nothing like a walk in the sea spray air. We did the same a couple of weekends ago. Who knows when I’ll post the pics. I haven’t forgotten about the nature photo challenge Jo, I really want to do it and will. All my challenge and other posts have gone out the window lately, having a bit of a struggle for one reason or another but hey ho, getting there. I’m not getting email notifications of your posts anymore either😦 But I’m still here, loving walking with you rain or shine xx
Bless you, darlin’! Never easy, is it? But I love and admire your persistence, Sherri, and your company is always a delight, whenever you can make it. 🙂
Bless you dear Jo…love walking with you, love your posts, love you!! See you soon, and I wish you a wonderful weekend. Thanks for the hugs too, I’ll always take those…🙂 xxx
Looks a bit chilly and wet Jo. Sometimes I wonder if our dry but frozen air and sunshine is easier to take. Love that playground. All aboard the whale.🙂
It’s not something I’d often do, Sue. A moment of madness, and the need to be out 🙂
Great set of photos, Jo. Salt spray and the wind in my hair……I’d look like the wreck of the Hesperus, but it still sounds inviting. Oh my goodness, those fishermen look like a hardy lot. Love the lighthouse and the memorial. What, no mention of coffee and cake?😕
We didn’t hang around, Ad 🙂 Though in retrospect I missed a trick. Jude might have liked the Winter Gardens at Sunderland.
“I remember murky days in England” I would rather the exhilarating buffeting of the wind and being all wrapped up for the weather. Then sweating through the next 2 months of humidity…Loved your atmospheric photos Jo
Thanks, sweetheart! We have a bright frosty one this morning. I’m still waiting for my son to wake up so I can shepherd him out for a healthy dose of fresh air before he goes back to Leeds tonight. 🙂
I’m fond of murky days, especially via your splendid photos. My week in six words? I can do better than that – 6 letters! T, S, K, A, J, H
That spells a happy time, Meg 🙂 Is this the Alphabet challenge? 🙂 🙂
Glad you had fun. I would have stayed inside!
It did occur to me, Mlissabeth 🙂
the opening photo has your artistic flair Jo! but enjoyed the murky day – with pirate art and action shots too –
My camera’s a good little buddy, isn’t it? Soldiering on, whatever the weather! (not to mention, the poor husband 🙂 )
Yes – the hubs is a dearheart! Who respects your art! ❤️
I just love that lighthouse, Jo. The pictures are stunning. I always say a rainy day at the beach is better than a sunny day in the office😉
Oh yes- I would second that 100 percent, Dianne 🙂 Thank you!
My six words for you Jo are.
I appreciate a rainy day too.
As Dianne just commented, ‘better than a sunny day in the office’, Jack 🙂 I have to agree.
Looks like a fun way to spend a dreary day. Glad you enjoyed getting out despite the weather. Unusual for us, we still haven’t had any snow this winter! I shouldn’t complain, but I do like at least one snowfall in a winter.🙂
Got to get out or it drives me barmy! (barmier! 🙂 ) Tiny bit of snow- gone again now…
Great photos; love the art, both the piece in the first photo and the children’s art that comes at the end of your post.
There’s something good to see even on the murkiest days, if you keep your eyes open, isn’t there , Charlie? 🙂
Your first picture is absolutely stunning! Thank you for sharing.
I’m glad you like it 🙂 Thank you very kindly.
nice murky day photos! FYI- your link on 6 words sent me to your post from December 5th? weird!
Sorry, Kathe! I had the same problem last week 😦 I appear to have got stuck!
I love the iron whatsit in the first picture – it looks quite like a Charles Rennie Mackintosh inspired thing.
I’m afraid your link on ShowMyFace took me to an old post again. 😦
I know!!!! Debbie pointed it out this morning. What am I doing wrong? 😦 And how is everyone still finding me? Sorry to be a nuisance 🙂
Yes- very fancy new fencing 🙂
I found you by clicking on your header – it took me to your most current page. Each week when I go to Show My Face the link to my last week’s post is still in the box, under my name. I just delete it and add this week’s link. However, if you are doing that already, then it is odd that it is still reverting to the old one.
There’s not usually anything there? It just says ‘you’re next’, I hit enter and there I am 😦 I’d better try something else next week because once it’s in… it’s in 😦
Ah. With me I have two boxes to complete under ‘You’re next’. It says Mr Linky’s Magical Widgets and there are two boxes. The first box has my name already completed (so I think I must have asked it to remember me at some point) and the second box, saying ‘Your URL’, is where the one I entered the previous week can be seen. I delete that one and put my new one in. Perhaps we are both seeing different things?
I sometimes wonder if I ‘see’ anything at all! I shall pay close attention next week (and then resign from 6WS 🙂 )
That looks like the weather at our beaches year round. Hope you are having a great weekend!
Awwh, that doesn’t seem fair 😦 Remind me where you live again? Zumba and a brisk walk home this morning and coffee with a good friend this afternoon. Chores tomorrow 🙂
Western Washington State. We have a place in Westport on the coast and it is always grey and damp. It is the ocean though and that makes it okay! 🙂
Yes, better than a sunny day in the office 🙂
An eclectic mix of photos for a gloomy day. The second photo has me wondering…waterlogged witch’s broom, beached sea serpent?😉
Beached sea serpent, I rather fancy, Julie 🙂 🙂
Whatever the fishermen were catching, it must have been a nice reward to keep them out in the rain! (of course, they are always hardy sorts)
One sad little soul was hunkered down beside the pier, looking very desolate 😦 Not a natural fisherman, I guess 🙂
Hi Jo,
It’s kind of a murky day here, too. Not rainy, though. Just overcast with a solid grey cloud cover. And colder than the days before. For me, a perfect day to stay inside, maybe have a fire in the fireplace, and read or watch tv.
Have a great weekend,
Pit
Sounds like a good plan, Pit. It was bright, white and slippy here this morning, but I enjoyed my zumba session, and then coffee with a friend this afternoon. Oops, there’s another day gone! Have to do some chores tomorrow. 🙂
A perfect post for your walking theme, Jo.🙂 love the playground.
Got to fit a little walk in here and there, Amy 🙂 I hate being cooped up!
I spent many a childhood afternoon on Roker beach (and sometimes Seaburn, but we lived just the other side of Roker Park so this was handier). Recognised it at once, even if some of the details have changed in the intervening decades.
It’s had a bit of an update lately, Annabel, including the curly wurly wrought iron. Not sure why the locals don’t seem pleased with the council. There were billboards and slogans on cars giving them a very hard time 🙂
Rally? I liked the curly wurly, if the rest of the updating us similar I don’t see what’s to object to. No pleasing some folk!
Exactly! Maybe they think it could be better spent than on fancy railings 🙂
Bede’s memorial is delightful as is the wrought-iron thingy-me-bob in your first shot. And I am truly amazed at that playground, beats the tarmaced, scruffy, 2 swings (one usually broken) space that was known as the (W)Rec(k) recreation ground of my youth… but it does look mightily grey out there!
The wrought iron thingummy Bob is new to me, too. I did a walk post on Roker pier a while ago, and they’ve spent quite a bit of money livening up the sea front and playground area. Yes, Andrew’s comment is about right. Kids must be made of cottonwool these days 🙂 We beat a hasty, wet retreat 🙂
Scraped knee and it is a visit to A&E!
And I took another look at the wrought-iron whotsit and saw they have incorporated large pebbles in it. Really nice bit of railing / sculpture. Must be getting quite gentrified oop north😀
I think the council may have upset the locals by being frivolous with their taxes! Can’t please everybody. I like them 🙂
Love the mural.
Fun, isn’t it? 🙂
Even on a gloomy day, your photos are fabulous, Jo! I love the lighthouse shot!
Thanks, sweetheart! It was a swift walking day 🙂
You’re so tiny, I’m sure the wind was pushing you along.🙂
Ruining my hairstyle, you mean 🙂 🙂
What a contrast, from the first photos to the final few. Very cool!
Got to love Jack Sparrow, Ron 🙂
I like this place, I can imagine myself here, just breathing salty air and dreaming of something…
It’s a nice old-fashioned kind of seaside place, but with a new playground and promenade. 🙂
I always enjoy your walks, which provide me with some mental exercise at least, as I’m currently enjoying the benefits of a wonky knee and can’t walk as far as I would like
Oh, I know about wonky knees, Peter! Hope it’s soon better 🙂
Was für schöne Fotos ich wünsche einen schönen Samstag und ein gutes Wochenende liebe Grüße Gislinde
Vielen danke, Gislinde 🙂 Eine schone Samstag!
That fishing looks fun (not)!
I had a proper gloomy shot I was going to include of one of them hunkered down against the pier 🙂 🙂
I can see an already snowy atmosphere , in your photos….
They are brilliant and interesting as always!
Thanks, Anna 🙂 You know I just love to be out and about 🙂
Wonderful wrought iron honey! and the playground is cool as well. You’ve made me want to go to the sea, but I have chores to do😦
Bede’s memorial is fascinating, a lovely combination of ancient and modern design, have you posted about it before?
I’d hardly remembered it was there, Gilly. We usually walk along the beach or the lower prom, but the weather was inclement, to say the least and we took the shortest route back. I took quite a lot of shots of it and was going to keep them, but I have no self restraint! Will have to Google it! I also remembered the Winter Gardens at Sunderland, which would have been great for Jude, when it was too late. 😦 Might go up that way next week 🙂 The sky is bright but the roads are looking icy and slippy after a bit of overnight snow so I’m not really looking forward to venturing forth to zumba.
Ugh snow, I wouldn’t go out in that for Zumba, give me a cosy chair and a book, but you enjoy my love! I’m sure Jude will be delighted with a winter gardens post from Sunderland. There is just so much to see and do isn’t there? I can never understand boredom!
Yes, yes, yes. Winter Gardens. Sunderland. Pleeeaase!!!
Hush! I was out in the snow taking heather and primula shots on your behalf this morning. Darn- given the game away again 🙂
Heather? Really? Wow! [jumps up and down]
And wet knees 🙂
Sorry about the wet knees… maybe the Winter Gardens will be dryer? [nudge nudge…]🙄
Just possibly 🙂 In Leeds on Friday so I will be looking out for Winter gardens there too. Why am I so good to you? Must be your appealing personality 🙂
There is one in Sheffield, but I don’t know about Leeds.
Nope- not going that far! It’s just a quick visit for the boy’s birthday. We’ll see how the week goes 🙂
I don;t think of Leeds and Sheffield being far apart as I lived between the tow for many years. Never visited gardens then though as I had my own to look after.
Danke für diese wunderbaren und eindrücklich Bilder vom stürmischen Tag entlang dem Kliff nach Bede’s Memorial. Es ist sehr nett von Dir, dass Du mich auf diesen Besuch mitgenommen hast. Ernst
Sie sind willkommen, Ernst. Ich liebe es, am Meer. 🙂
🙂
My six words are “As usual, love your pics, Jo”🙂
Bless your cotton socks, Ken 🙂
I like seeing the sea even when it is murky. And looking forward to Monday’s waterfalls with you Jo
Snow for you! Have you got much?
By the way your link on Six Word is to an old post (pre-Christmas)
Just a gentle covering on the roads, Debs. It’s probably more ice than snow 😦 Not really looking forward to testing it.
I wonder why it’s doing that, Debs? It did the same last week, to a different post! Not sure how people are finding me- must be from the Reader.
This was going to be a Monday walk but I’ve done Roker before, and it’s all a bit grey, isn’t it? Atmospheric, huh? 🙂
The playground is perfect. There weren’t any like this when I was young. I also like the lighthouse photo. Cheers!
Yes, kid’s playgrounds have come a long way since I was a lass, too 🙂 Thank you!
They were much more fun when I was a boy. The amazingly dangerous witch’s hat, long slides that ended in a muddy puddle, concrete surfaces that you could graze your knees on and roundabouts you could trap your leg underneath. Those were the days!
Exactly! 🙂 We must have been more ‘shockproof’ 🙂
I swear Andrew and I must have grown up in the same place! Last week it was the beach, this week the same playground, though I am not so sure what a witches hat is?
You must have had a witches hat and teapot lid? The hat was a pointy shaped roundabout where your legs dangled in the middle and it tilted 🙂
No. We were obviously deprived in Yorkshire😦 We did have little roundabouts that you had to run like hell and push to get moving then leap on board and hope you didn’t fall off. They made me feel sick. Oh, and sometimes a rubbish see-saw.
That’s a teapot lid you’ve described. I hated them! (and the waltzers at fairgrounds 😦 ) I was only ever fit for those rubbish see-saws. 🙂
My favourite was the rocking horses, remember them? So easy to be thrown off!!! Never see them now-a-days…
🙂