Went to look after my sister's dog last night. She and her partner were off playing in a pub in Lancaster.
[They're musicians, very good too.] They live in Morcambe, right on the sea front.

I love Morcambe Bay. When the tide is out, I always think I could walk right across. A lot of people make that mistake, and get themselves stuck in shifting sand or worse, drown.

The mountains across the bay are breathtakingly beautiful! The never look the same. I prefer them when they take on every shade of blue. Somehow they become magical and unearthly. Every time I go, I become obsesses with looking in the rock pools, I always find something new, this time I spotted little fish darting around amongst the shellfish.

I took a diversion on the way up, looking for a toilet, and ended up in a garage, in a place called Cabus. When I asked if they had a toilet, I was directed around the building into a type of outhouse. It was a little strange, but I was still grateful, so decided it was only civil to buy something. I asked an odd little chap sat behind a desk if he had any crisps. 'Aye,' he replied pointing, 'in a box behind that door.'
I pulled the door too, and rummaged in the box on the floor. I fished out a packet of ready salted crisps.

I then asked him if he had any drinks. 'Aye,' he replied, 'on a shelf, behind the box.' I pulled the door too again, and moved the crisp box, looking for the shelf. 'Not that box,' the odd little man said, pointing, and shaking his head with disbelief, 'behind the other box.'I found the other box, pulled it out, and located a shelf with drinks on. He smirked, so I paid hurriedly, feeling like I had stumbled into a Stephen King movie. To add to the atmosphere, as I walked out,[very quickly ]thunder crashed above me, with an unbelievable violence, followed by torrential rain. Then of course, I got lost in Cabus because I couldn't see a thing and had no idea where I was anway.

The thunder storm hit again during the night in Morcambe. It's been a long time since I've seen or heard a storm like that. I do love storms though, reminds me how little control us humans really have.....