Not drowning, but waving

Sunny Sunday: lazy day, but I can't stop reorganising my study and now the bedroom! So I decided to go with CleanSteve to Gloucester (not my favourite place), because after the Lidl and Yip Shing chinese supermarket trips, there'd be a chance to go to Dunelm, the home of storage solutions. Clearly, visiting Lakeland on Friday wasn't enough!

So we did all that stuff, and then decided to hit the river Severn. Not upstream as last month, but nearer to Quedgeley, an old village and former RAF base that is now a suburb of Gloucester. I'd been there last year when I blipped this scene. Now that I look at it, it is quite similar to today's shot. Clearly I like Fields of Gold.

I am very respectful of the Severn: it floods regularly, and has sinking sand along its 'beaches'. Every now and then, someone drowns in the mud. It is also tidal. So when we saw an enormous patch of mud, all dried and cracked, with large footprints in it, I was drawn to investigate. I thought I'd got some great shots with a reddish plant in the foreground, but they turned out a bit meh.

CleanSteve has written about our walk, so I don't have to. He also blipped me, dressed like a townie with handbag and flip flops! Do take a look if you dare. Strangely, we have chosen to blip the same building, the goal of our walk, being a cottage that was not as abandoned as we first thought. I think a murderer owns it, and stores the bodies there, because it is so of the way. But then again, it might be a pretty basic holiday cottage! We both enjoyed the amazing peace of the location.

I loved the waving grasses in the field, and the curves of the landscape. I could have chosen more a dramatic shot, but this is the one that I liked best, that and the swan that posed for me in a shining lake that we discovered along the way.

Back home, I am delighted with my new storage arrangements. This whole project, which seems to have been going for months, is not cheap, but now that the dirty work is done, immensely satisfying! I now have a study/den that I love, and the bedroom is improving by the minute. I bought something for the kitchen too...

Song: Fields of Gold