Over and under

Rumour has it that Transpennine Express have devised a cunning way of carrying twice as many passengers to and from Arnside.

I've been on an upward curve today while Wifie's trajectory has been in the opposite direction as she has now succumbed to the man flu. It's not good to see her pole-axed by it, but it does go to show that it was a worse than average type of man flu.

The delirium that inspired Monday's and yesterday's blip has worn off, and tonight's sunset rather fizzled out before it got started. But it was a bright, cold winter's day, when the frost lay all day even in sunshine, and the salty pools on the saltmarsh were frozen. There were faint echoes of the cold spells of last winter when the estuary twice froze into an Arctic waste. The forecast for us though is for milder air to come in off the Atlantic over the weekend, so it seems unlikely we shall have another deep freeze.

The frozen mudflats combined with low tides meant that I could walk further out on the mud than is usually possible to take this photograph of the Barrow train coming into Arnside.

Thank you very much for all the hearts, stars and comments on the Energy Coast yesterday.