The Collectors

Wide Wednesday: The Weather with you

"Maggie and Milly and Molly and May
went down to the beach (to play one day)

and Maggie discovered a shell that sang
so sweetly she couldn't remember her troubles, and

Milly befriended a stranded star
whose rays five languid fingers were;

and Molly was chased by a horrible thing
which raced sideways while blowing bubbles: and

May came home with a smooth round stone
as small as a world and as large as alone.

For whatever we lose (like a you or a me)
it's always ourselves we find in the sea

E. E. Cummings

Bish and I took our motorbikes for a bimble down to Exmoor and from there up along the coast of the Bristol Channel, which was just over 220 miles according to my bike. We took the weather with us for the ride, and fortunately it was benign and almost perfect for riding motorbikes.  Dry and not too hot.  

At Bish's recommendation, we stopped at Lynmouth for fish and chips, which we eat on the beach, and they really were very good.  In my memory I spent a lot of my childhood summers on the beach.  In reality they were just a few brief weeks, but they were so important to me as a child that they loom large in my memory even now.  E.E. Cummings definitely had that part right.

As you can see this beach at Lynmouth is not in the least sandy, but these two at least, were finding plenty to keep themselves amused.  I suspect that they are after shells or interesting smooth round stones ...