With my new batch of earrings all packed up and ready to go, today I made the trip to the Upcycled Home Co where they are going to be sold. Its a fairly long journy (by foot) taking me through Plymouth to a quaint little edge with lots of little old houses, on a ferry accross the Tamar, and up through the lush green Mount Edgcume with its cows and rooks and swallows. Oh poor me :)
Whenever I come here in the summer, I always see the swallows skimming the same hill for insects and marvel at their almost bat-like, otherworldly glide.
As I had a good half an hour to kill I decided to try and photograph them as they sped around, but soon started to wish I knew how to change the shutter speak because they are extremely fast. I had to take 283 photographs just to get these extremely blurry images. 283!
There is a tiny little pebbly beach down by where the ferry picks you up, that I have noticed not only had a lot of brightly coloured sea glass, but also lots of coins from where people have been getting their purses out and dropped into the sea. I've found all sort down there, lots of penny's the occasional 20, 50 and pound coin, and then today I found a tiny half penny. Now half pennies went out of circulation in 1984 so this one must have been in the sea for at least 32 years, unless my maths is totally crap!
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