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This morning I scanned the next dozen of my Streets of London colour slides, but had no time to write them up before Elizabeth arrived for lunch and the rest of the day. As I wrote yesterday, there is always tomorrow.
After lunch, the three of us went for a drive in the forest.
At Tanner’s Lane beach Jackie fought with her bag threatening to fly away in a stiff breeze;
while Elizabeth took a stroll in the direction of a passing ferry boat.
I wandered down to the shoreline where a broken mooring and two stray buoys suggested that the boat normally attached may have blown away in the recent storm.
On the usual grass verge at Sowley, cattle and their calves lay chewing the cud.
These stoic animals have only their enviable eyelashes to protect them from irritating flies. Although the cattle roam free, the ear tags indicate ownership.
We stopped for tea, coffee, and cake at The Old Bakehouse Tea Rooms in Beaulieu.
Beside the lake a pair of swans and their cygnets provided entertainment for
a gentleman reclining on a fencepost while a pheasant looked on. Uma’s comment below reminded me that this is the same man who crossed the shallows to feed the parents in January –Â https://derrickjknight.com/2017/01/21/an-act-of-love/
This evening we all dined on Jackie’s exquisite lamb jalfrezi, chicken tandoori, savoury rice topped with almonds, all preceded by meat samosas. The ladies drank Hoegaarden and I finished the Fleurie.
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Great feature photo. Pebble beaches always make me laugh. Let’s hope that there will always be tomorrow.
🙂 Many thanks, Mary.
Lovely supine cows, divine amid the yellow flowers. And that chicken tandoori with savoury rice is tantalizing, What can she NOT do, your cheery lady?
I can’t knit! I can crotchet tho’! 🙂
Goodness, if that is all you cannot do, you are a true wonder! (Domestic talent was not allowed into my gene make-up, to my family’s chagrin…) Thanks for the reply, so enjoy your part of the blog, too!
Yes – I love how Jackie is popping in through photos and comments. She’s fun.
🙂 ‘Aw’ – she says
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Love the cows…Love the beach…can’t wait for tomorrow.
I’d better do it then Jeanne 🙂 Thanks very much.
I shall remain mute…
Thanks a lot cobber 🙂
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Those cows look very sleepy! It’s so hot here, I could use a trip to the beach.
It has cooled down a bit here. It was quite cold on the beach. Many thanks, Jill
The cows reclining amongst the yarrow flowers make for wonderful photos! <3
Thanks very much, Pauline. I didn’t know what they were, so I left them without mentioning them, so I am pleased they were noticed. (Jackie says they are ragwort – perhaps a WP version of yellow?)
Jackie is gar more likely to be correct than me, I’m not that familiar with ragwort and tend to think all tall growing yellow clumped flowers are yarrow 🙂 What ever they are they make for a beautifully bucolic picture.
Bucolic, I like
yes, yes – I think the brown, white yellow green photos – with beautiful lighting – are just stunning.
🙂 X
Lovely, Derrick. I love the cattle amidst the yellow wild flowers. It almost looks posed. 😉
Quite so, Merril. Many thanks.
: ) me too!
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Nature at its best 🙂
Many thanks, Arlene
The gentleman appears to be feeding the swans and cygnets. The tranquility of cows is enviable. Where did the ponies go?
You are so right, Uma. I should have known: https://derrickjknight.com/2017/01/21/an-act-of-love/ The ponies were less in evidence yesterday. Thanks Uma
The swans have done very well to have that number of cygnets!
That’s what Jackie says. Thanks, John
Calves and cygnets, aaw so beautiful.
Many thanks, Ivor
Thanks for ‘taking’ me on a wonderful stroll. By the way, loose cattle? Do they roam far from their farm home? Do they stay together or separate? Do they interfere with traffic? I have so many questions about the loose animals that populate your environment.
They generally stay together and don’t roam too far. They certainly do interfere with the traffic as they have right of way in The New Forest. One that did roam further is featured in this earlier post: https://derrickjknight.com/2013/11/26/they-are-her-friends-now/ Thanks, Steve
A wonderful day out! The free-roaming, but owned cattle are interesting.
Thanks very much, Lavinia. The New Forest is unique in its roaming animals.
A lovely post; thank you.
Many thanks, Brian
I am amazed at cows and how tranquil they appear. I feel bad about flies. Hopefully, no fleas as they are far harder to swish away.
Nice to compliment the cows’ eyelashes! 🙂 They always do pull at my heartstrings with their trusting big eyes.
The six cygnets with parental swans feeding in the grass was a sweet scene, Derrick.
Very many thanks, Robin, for your usual closely observed comments
I liked catching up and paying attention is part of why I wait till the weekend. I’m less likely to fall asleep in the middle of a comment. 🙂
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Those cows! Flies aside, they do look content.
And your dinner sounds delish!
Thanks a lot, Laurie. They seem far less concerned than the ponies do.