A Short Break away 🦖🦕🦈

 So , here we are ! On our way home from a couple of days fossil hunting in Charmouth .

By the way , I'm not driving ! I was holding the camera up the other way around .

Not a good idea to drive with a big basket of needlework supplies , snacks , bottle of water and a coffee cup full of water and lots of scavenged plant cuttings .

Not a good idea for me to be driving at all really , because I can't !  

Charmouth Beach with the Golden Cap in the distance .

Sunday was sunny with a chilly breeze and being Sunday , there were so many people arriving on the beach that we were glad we took our walk early . Then headed off to Chesil and Cogden Beach ....which was blissful in it's emptiness .

We did a very long trudge down and along Cogden Beach and Chesil Beach  and a gruelling walk back up to the car park . Grateful for the occasional seat to get our breath back along the way .

There's the Golden Cap in the distance .

The Crambe Maritima looking amazing at this time of the year , with it's huge white flowers . 

                         Also known as Sea Kale .

           The ancient brassica of our ancestors . Isn't it gorgeous !

Every part of this perennial kale ; the leaves , the buds like broccoli and even the roots are edible .

               Potentilla anserina , also known as Silverweed . 

                                      Just so beautiful !

 

Then off to Groves Nursery for lunch .

Ricardo had  Jacket Potato , filled with Chicken , bacon and avocado .

  I had good old jacket potato cheese and beans . 

It was busy in there so I had to go and grab a table in the shade and he knows what to order for me . He knows what I like . 

Back at the hotel , I did a little more of my Pentecost embroidery listening to some beautiful music  .

  

 🌿🕊️ Harpa Dei - Music for the Healing of Nations (From Gethsemani )🕊️🌿

"Siblings in blood and spirit . Singing in various languages Aramaic , Hebrew , Greek , Latin , Chinese and various European languages ."

Monday we walked about three quarters of the way up to the Golden Cap ... I got heat stroke ..... and can't remember much more about it really . 

 The hot weather had really caught us out , we were unprepared and had not thought to bring our sun hats .  Husband can take it ...  I can't .

We went back to the Premier Inn in Seaton . I had a very uncomfortable night feeling so poorly .

 Ricardo said he would take us home that evening but I was feeling too rough to do so . 

 Felt a bit washed out next morning , but okay to do the drive home .

We usually go fossil hunting in the Winter  , so it was lovely to see our beautiful English countryside on the drive home .

We didn't find any fossils this time , I found a piece of rock with lovely crystals inside it  . Actually there was lots of it , a geode that someone had smashed open . Huge chunks ! Beautiful and sparkling !

 I was told quite firmly that I was not to try carrying it back to the car ..hmph ... so I gathered up a small chunk . I'll show you tomorrow . 

 I did find lots of stones with holes in . I seem to be drawn to them  ! lol !  

At the moment they are in every pocket of our coats , clothes and in every corner of the car , under the seats 🤗 ..... if I hadn't been feeling so bad , there would also usually be a pile of drift wood too .... sigh .....

  I slept the rest of the way home .

 Thoughts were now turning to my plants in the shed and in the greenhouse .

 I had left one side window partly open , but if it has been as hot as it has been in Charmouth , I was afraid that I might lose everything !

 So glad to see the "Coming Home Trees "on the way back .

Back home and straight up to water everything in the shed and greenhouse .

Sweetcorn and beans have all germinated and are even climbing out of the ventilation vent of the propagator !

I might sow another batch of sweetcorn . A variety called Swift and they did come up so fast !

       🌱🌱🌱  Everything is germinating and doing really well .🌱🌱🌱

Over in the greenhouse , the tomato vines are now just beginning to push their way up and through the greenhouse bench . 🌿

Soon I will top up the pot bags they are growing in with some fresh compost .

I don't give any tomato food just yet .

    🌿 I begin to feed as they start to flower .🌿

I pulled the strings forward to gently wind the tomato stems around as they grow taller . I planted the taller growing tomato plants at this end and the shorter ones further down so that I would have access to open and close the side window .

Anyway ....

      Then we went for our evening walk .  Aah ....it's so good to be home  .

               Hope the weather is being kind wherever you are .

                        ☀️and a bitterly cold breeze again here !

                                         Love and Peace 🕊️

                                  Love Debbie x