Insignificance

There’s something surreally beautiful about the huge stretches of sand stretching out, it seems, for miles. Almost featureless, but for the occasional  pool or channel of silvery water, they provide a huge blank canvas on which light and wind paint their own random patterns. 

Today the light has that perfectly clear brilliance of Greek islands - or at least a Greece not ravaged by the current wildfires - the rows of turbine statues, deceptively close, replacing whitewashed windmills. The tide is so far out it’s hard to make out the sea at all, and even further out huge vessels, made miniature by distance, move almost imperceptibly along the horizon. 

A flotsam of vessels sit high and dry, scattered randomly along the sands, some tilting wildly, keels wedged deep, waiting for the tide to return them to some sort of equilibrium. As I look out across the sands, I spot a tiny figure walking from one of the distant stranded boats, treading a winding path towards the unseen sea. Later, I spot him, small and insignificant, dwarfed both by the towering turbines and the vastness of the sands, the foreground turquoise tender adding to his tiny remoteness, my choice today. 

We’ve parked here to eat our lunch - and for me to photograph the scene, and I stand leaning on the sea wall watching, warm in the sunshine, but chilled by the keen wind. I’ve had an appointment at The Royal - respiratory this time, which confirms my bronchoscopy results have revealed no sign of TB, supporting the Non Pulmonary TB diagnosis (though as you know, that in itself is still a ‘best fit’ diagnosis).  And as it’s Daniel’s birthday, we’ve arranged to call to see them both. We spend an hour or so with them in their garden, eating home made birthday cake and chatting, before heading back home. Hard to believe our ‘little’ first-born (all 11lb 5oz of him) has just turned 37! 

In extras, there are two other more conventional views of Meols, plus a portrait of the ‘birthday boy’! 

Thanks so much for the comments stars and hearts for yesterday’s sunset gulls!