Dolphins at our feet

The early morning light was beautiful this morning. 

It was utterly magical to find our view was enhanced by the sighting (by Daughter) of a small pod of Bottlenose Dolphins!

It would have helped to have had a longer lens.

Lots of folk were enjoying their antics in the water.

Finally they left us to get on with the day. Meetings resumed and finished and emails answered in the office.

Out to check on the Point for a potentially misplaced ewe.  And perhaps catch another sighting of the bottlenose dolphins.

The glorious day didnt stop there. A buzzard posed in the Black Park.  And we had a brief beach moment at Calgary as the sun was beginning to set.

And remember it is still only September...

Dull forecast for Aurora Borealis

The day has been hot. Hard to believe it is September.  We drove past Calgary beach at 10.30 am this morning and there was a man swimming and a woman standing in a bikini.  At 10.30 in the morning. 

Aurora Borealis forecast for tonight is for a mega hit - visible quite far down the rest of the UK as well as up here.  There was no breeze to shift this haze and no sign of the wind we would need. 

Even the Farmer enjoys a swim every now and then. And with the temperature this evening at 17.5 degrees as we drove to Calgary... not to be missed.

That was the clearest the sky was going to be all night. There were stars overhead when I went to bed at 1am but not a glimpse of the northern lights to the north.  I guess I wasn't the only person who was slightly disappointed.

Spanner in the works.

It has been one of those days.  

This morning, Farmer needed to level the wood-chip as we are trying to use every last bit before we get another load, so that we can do some maintenence to the store.  In the process he discovered that parts of the floor are rotting through, because the flooring used does not seem to have been made using marine ply.. so the moisture in the chip has slowly been dampening and rotting the floor.  Replacing it will be a big job.

The orange flowers in the right hand corner of this photograph are the Bog Asphodel seed heads.

Then Farmer went off to cut some more bracken and the gear box on the mower went.  He came back to the farm and the final straw..

 ...was breaking his spanner doing this.  What was there left for the poor man to do?  He came for a walk with me to Haunn.

 It has been very windy today, so not very good for capturing flowers.