Spring Days Out

The first blog I ever read was Wife in the North. I read about it in the paper and was initially attracted to it on grounds of geography - we have a small house in North Northumberland to which we make "occasional visits". I enjoy the writing and the humour and admire the brave decision to uproot and move to that part of the world on a permanent basis. It seems to have inspired an outbreak of blogging in the area - Mutterings and Meanderings; Mutterings from the Mill; Famous for all kinds of Wickedness. We have been in Northumberland this week-end (albeit briefly) and its beaches and countryside always ease my essentially fractious nature. Not even the relative busyness of the beach this bank holiday week-end Sunday morning could set back the feeling of better-will it always inspires in me. Hence...

I like the feeling of sitting in a warm car with the heater on after a cold afternoon in the fresh air; I like cheerful outdoor crowds eating, drinking and chatting with their friends. We have a number of regular spring time fixtures which, while not religiously penned in our diary, we tend to make more often than not - odd days fishing; various Point to Points, Melrose 7s. Today on the way home we went to the Lauderdale Point to Point - it wasn't' warm but the sun shone (most of the time); the wind blew across the hillside; and people met each other, chatted, scooped a drink or two and had a bet. I got back in my car, turned the heater on, felt my cheeks start to glow and cheered up.