On the Right

"The Sun came up upon the left,
Out of the sea came he!
And he shone bright, and on the right
Went down into the sea."


The Ancient Mariner  by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. 

Laura and I headed off to the beach after work last Saturday for a little time in the sun. My gosh, it was such a gorgeous day. It must be so wonderful to spend all your time near the ocean. One day I might. I'd like to have a dog that I can take for walks down to the beach. Penny detests water, and we can't let her off the leash (she's an excellent escape artist), so letting her run on the beach is simply out of the equation. 


Laura and I walked all round the seaside, taking photographs and jumping over waves. We stayed till the sun went down (a spectacular departure at 7pm, I love these longer days) and ate local fish and chips for dinner. We tried to find an ATM to get money out (we didn't want to have to spend the two dollar charge on using a different bank's machine) and ended up buying plastic champagne glasses and blood orange fizzy drink instead. We had a laugh when we realised that we had spent five dollars in order to avoid a two dollar charge. It was a lot of fun, and nice to spend time outside in the sun. All this time spent inside doing assignments is getting to me.