A post to round of last October and see in November! Christmas, New Year, Valentine’s, and Easter are all behind us, but here on the blog, it’s the end of October!
I’m cheating slightly, these first two photos are from an evening walk after our trip to Stott Park Bobbin Mill and Blackwell House.
I wish I could remember where I saw these waxcaps. I know that it was during a local walk on the final day of our half-term, our standard Sunday walk around Jenny Brown’s Point.
As you can see, it had been another day of very high tides.
Later, I was out again for a short trip to The Cove and across The Lots.
Stinking Hellebore is one of first plants to flower each year, but early November is surely getting a bit carried away?
TBH and I were once again heading around Jenny Brown’s.
The kids were all home that weekend, for our friend’s 21st Birthday masked ball (great fun), so they joined us later for fireworks on The Lots, a privately funded show put on for the village. It was spectacular , but the video doesn’t do it justice at all.
Beating The Bounds 
What are all the marks on the wet mud in the second photo – footprints?
Yes, water-filled footprints: somebody who was much less concerned about their shoes than you had been plodging in the mud. The darker blotches are the clumps of grass which had begun to form.
Hard not to enjoy fireworks. The video worked easily.
I found the badger’s visit interesting and I love the second image of the cove. An unusual sweep catpured.
TBH is a bit of a pyromaniac, like many chemists I suspect, and adores firewprks. Funnily enough, we were discussing them only today: my parents have just (yesterday) moved into a flat in Lancaster in a complex which has an amazing roof-terrace and we were discussing watching the Lancaster fireworks from there (if they revive them this year).