I had a notion to go to Clachtoll today and James was up for it so off we went in the morning. It was an overcast day with intermittent showers, but the two beaches still looked beautiful, with the broch sitting above the longer one. We enjoyed looking at the rocks and pebbles on the beach; there were a variety of Lewisian Gneiss, sandstone, and quartz. When we got to the end of the beach we saw a northern wheatear sitting on a rock watching us, it was a pretty little grey bird with black wings, a pinkish buff throat and a dark eye-stripe.
We had a picnic of hot cross buns and coffee sitting on the bench at the end of the beach in a rain shower. Luckily we were well clad and had even (thanks to James’ insistence) brought our waterproof over trousers, so we kept fairly dry until the shower ended.
After a look around the Broch we saw a pale brown Skylark hopping about on the grass. It was very attractive with its patterned wings and a short blunt crest standing up on its head. There was another skylark nearby which flew up into the sky; we could hear its clear, trilling song from high above us; James could see it with his better eyesight but I couldn’t see it at all!
On the way home we listened to another episode of The Rest is History podcast about the French Revolution; we are now about two thirds of the way through it and it continues to be horrifyingly violent. Inspired by this we watched the 1983 French film “Danton” starring Gerard Depardieu. It covers the last few weeks of Danton’s life and oh boy it was brutal! Institutionalised slaughter.
We had a picnic of hot cross buns and coffee sitting on the bench at the end of the beach in a rain shower. Luckily we were well clad and had even (thanks to James’ insistence) brought our waterproof over trousers, so we kept fairly dry until the shower ended.
After a look around the Broch we saw a pale brown Skylark hopping about on the grass. It was very attractive with its patterned wings and a short blunt crest standing up on its head. There was another skylark nearby which flew up into the sky; we could hear its clear, trilling song from high above us; James could see it with his better eyesight but I couldn’t see it at all!
On the way home we listened to another episode of The Rest is History podcast about the French Revolution; we are now about two thirds of the way through it and it continues to be horrifyingly violent. Inspired by this we watched the 1983 French film “Danton” starring Gerard Depardieu. It covers the last few weeks of Danton’s life and oh boy it was brutal! Institutionalised slaughter.
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