I've been meaning to have a quick walk before starting work for ages now - since it started getting lighter in the mornings, in fact - but once the laptop gets going, I find myself quickly distracted by the chaos it shows me, so I simply must begin sorting it out and creating some order. But not yesterday. Yesterday was different because I found myself awake a little earlier than normal (because of the bright, bright sunshine streaming through my not-quite-closed blinds). So, after I'd connected the laptop to work's VPN thingy, filed emails, tidied up tasks, and updated the stats to show what our workload for the day looked like, I stuck my fingers up at it, grabbed Camera and left the house.
In the previous post I showed you Cromer Pier of an evening from Overstrand beach, and in this one you get to see it in the morning. I know - I spoil you!
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That's the Hotel de Paris overlooking the pier near the foot of the cliff
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The top image is what Camera told the Demon Box what the sun, sea, and sky looked like. However, after some fiddling about with brightness and contrast, the bottom image is more like what it looked like to biological eyes like mine (which, admittedly, don't work that well).
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This is where I saw that little muntjac deer back at the end of March. I suspect they hide up in that dark hollow near the top left (well, that's where it was when I took that photo)
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The prom and beach huts near the Coast Road slipway
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I only included this ship because I haven't used the 'boats' tag/label for a while
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And from this morning, one of the many residents of the embankment behind Hexenhäusli Device, a male roe deer. The photos aren't the best because I was taking them through a window - I didn't dare open it lest I scare him off.
Deer, deer, deer - you really do live in the countryside, don't you? Looks lovely, but probably still far too cold for a dip! Jx
ReplyDeleteI've usually had a paddle by this point in the year (the start of preparations to subject myself to a swim at some point in June), but not this year as it's been so flipping cold! I'll have to brave it soon.
DeleteYou were my first stop this am, as I rolled my naked nubile body from the bed and then scantly robbed to get coffee and oj. Aren't you nice to greet with Good Morning dear? To much tmi?
ReplyDeleteNow that dear looks like ours. A beach day there would be what the doctor ordered.
Roe deer are the most deer-like of the deer around here. And the biggest. Not that I'm a size queen...
DeleteToo much tmi? Not enough, I say!
I am gagging for a coastal walk, this morning I visited Benidorm followed by Puerto de la Cruz in Tenerife via live webcams. You can also view Cromer Pier live here
ReplyDeleteWho is that man peeing off the pier?
DeleteOh, great. I'm going to have to don a headscarf and giant sunglasses next time I venture onto the pier!
DeleteNot because I pee off it, of course.
I expect you can't tell us why you connect to a Visible Penis Line for work. Discretion is so important for the clients isn't it.
ReplyDeleteDoe!
Naturally. Although I can say that some of them just can't seem to handle it. I wish they'd just get a grip!
DeleteBuck!
Is the hotel haunted? It would be a lovely place to stay. I rather like all that mist. Thanks for sharing. Kizzes.
ReplyDeleteWell, according to some berks on Trip Advisor, yes, it is haunted. However, the reality is that most of the guests are so old as to be mistaken for the dead. I think you'd be better off in a more exclusive and luxurious B&B...
DeleteLoL that you had to take a picture of a boat because you had not used the tag in a while. How many neglected tags do I have huddled in the corners I wonder? I looked up the hotel, looks like a nice place. What does it mean to be a "Grade 2" building? Is it a type of historical designation? On Tuesday, I learned the British slang "dogging." It sounds rather exhibitionist, which is not my style, but to each their own.
ReplyDeleteAfter two years the swimming pool closest to me has been completely remodeled and is now open. I'm dreaming of early morning lap swimming several times a week, but first I'd like to get my second vaccine shot.
The Grade 2 thingy means that part/all of it is preserved for architectural/historical/cultural reasons, and can't be modified/knocked down without extremely good cause.
DeleteAh, dogging. I'm guessing that it does occur in the US, just under a different name? Unless it doesn't? Dogging can't be a quintessentially British thing, can it?
I'd love to go swimming in a pool again, but like you, it;s going to have to wait until I have my second jab. And by the time that happens, it'll be summer and I'll be swimming in the sea.
I'm jealous that you have any opportunity at all to swim in the sea!
DeleteDespite what American movies would have you believe, Americans really are quite prudish compared to the rest of the world. Also because I'm in a Northern US state, we tend to keep our clothes on a lot more then people in the South, like Florida. Mostly for practical reasons but also because we just aren't used to seeing a lot of other people unclothed.
I'm sure some people must have sex in public places in the US, but we don't have a name for it. A friend for a newspaper had a picture of a couple on the university grass, a bit of Cunnilingus on a nice sunny afternoon. It was a really cool picture, but not acceptable for print in the school newspaper.
This is why I never have pictures of deer on my blog - I do see them, but the movement to get the camera out of my pocket would scare them off. Annoying. I see bunnies as well - same problem.
ReplyDeleteOne day I will stay at the Hotel de Paris and we will pass each other on the beach when I take my morning constitutional, and you will wonder why the strange, yet ultimately stylish woman is winking at you.
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I was going to say that you'll probably have to break into a song and dance routine for me to notice you as I try and ignore everyone I see while out and about. However, the fact that you are stylish will make you stand out, so I will glance askance in your direction and notice the wink (as long as you're not too far away), and wonder for an uncomfortably long time whether you are someone I know as I continue walking. Then I'll realise who you are when I'm way, way past, and dither uselessly as I try and decide whether to turn back, by which time you'll have stopped winking and even stopped your eye-rolling at my social ineptitude, and wondered why you even bothered. But, in just a few long strides (very long legs, remember), I'll have retraced my steps and blathered incoherently at you while both you and Sid put your heads to one side and stare at me wondering when I'm going to shut up and stop embarrassing myself (and you). Then we'll just get ice creams and everything will be okay.
DeleteLovely Deer.
ReplyDeleteGlad you made the most of the sun while we had it. It has been very wet here.
Oh, yes, it's been absolutely dismal since then then. Horrid drizzly rain all day today!
DeleteDeer me! I come here for tasty titbits of innuendo and find the place is now a smorgasbord of quickies.In true Swedish style, I might say.
ReplyDeleteSwedish quiches?!? Hang on, Ikea is on the phone - I'll be back in a mo...
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