Lots of blue......but doesn't mean 'sad'

[LovelyLadyLux]

The view in front of me. Think I'm the polar opposite to much of Egypt which is primarily brown



What is the primary colour in the view you get?

[Horus]

Blue and a lovely view it is too, is that a marker bouy out in the water?

[Grandad]

Wow! I'd love to have that view.

That's defo worth a like

[LovelyLadyLux]

@H - the small white thingy is a bouy marker.

Haven't included photos of the beaches yet but in the summer if the tide is out it lets the sun warm up the sands and when the tide comes back in it is like swimming in soup.

Much of the geography around here is volcanic and there are multiple small circular crater shapped indents. Some of full of totally white sand which making swimming superb AND sand castle contests common place. The biggest and BEST is in the city (ok - by UK standards town ) of Parksville. Their entire beach is circle shaped, full of gorgeous sand and attracts lots of tourists for summer time activities.

I'm about 20 min drive south of that and the beaches here somewhat more volcanic re: rock eruptions.

Today it was cold with hazy fog so no photos OR walking about........

[Horus]

The whole area sounds ideal and a lovely place to live, we look forwards to seeing a lot more of your locality and the varied scenery.

[Grandad]

I wpuld echo your thoughts H

And those fabulous mountains.....haven't got anything like that in southern England and I think even Kiya would be hard pressed to compare up in Bonny Scotland.

[Kiya]

Ermmm maybe not but if I get the chance to get up Deeside way sometime in amongst the hills, glens, valleys & lochs should be really good for some photos, we should have a nice bloom of purple heather in summer, have to think now which castles are around the area for a photo shoot

[Kiya]

Been looking through some old photos, I have plenty blue & my lighthouse now I just have to watch for some snow falling on the sand dunes

[LovelyLadyLux]

Kiya is really 'blue' too (but not sad)

Today is so very dark and dreary it is hard to tell it is even day time out there. Am not at all encouraged to go out and wander about. Hopefully we'll get some sunshine soon so I can get some more shots.

So - now we know - me and Kiya are BLUE - what is your primary colour?

[Horus]

Nice picture Kiya and how I envy you those lovely Heather clad hillsides although we also have Heather not far away in the Peak District. Anyway we all know that there are some nice castles near to you.

"From the bonny bells of heather,
They brewed a drink long syne,
Was sweeter far than honey,
Was stronger far than wine".

[Winged Isis]

Blue and a lovely view it is too, is that a marker bouy out in the water?

Did you mean "buoy", H? LLL, do Canadians use the same "strange" pronunciation of "boo-ee" for this word as the Yanks, or the "normal" one of "boy", like the English and we Aussies? It cracks me up each time I hear it on "Survivor"!

[Horus]

Yes WI the word is "buoy" as in 'boy', just a typo on my part, I have been doing lots of typing today and my spelling slipped, I have large hands and I often hit the wrong keys

[LovelyLadyLux]

Yup - it is a BOY to me here vs boooo-eeee

[Winged Isis]

Such sensible english spoken in Canada!

[Grandad]

Coffee at Jojo's and a walk along the prom this morning but I am afraid todays colour is GREY



Can't even see the wind turbines of which there are hundreds in the Thames Estuary.

But there IS a Booo-eee there if you can spot it in The Grey

[Horus]

Oh dear that does look a bit on the grey side Grandad will we ever see the sun again

On the subject of 'boo-ees' I always have to smile at those American films where Davy Crockett, one of my chidhood favourites (I even had the hat) meets up with someone called Jim Boo-eee usually at the Alamo in Texas, I always thought his name was Jim Bowie as in Bow-ee, but apparently I was wrong, he really was Jim Boo-ee. I wonder what David Bowie makes of that?
Another one that made me smile was that American army guy Co-lin Powel, he was once asked by a reporter about his unusually pronounced Christian name and he replied "I don't really know where that came from, my mother calls me Colin" that always has me laughing when I hear his name pronounced as Co-lin.

[Kiya]

Just last night when I finished reading one of my books on Kindle, the usual voice that you hear say " you have finished blah blah book by author.............I forget her first name just now but just say the author was Mary Mac Cleod........I had to laugh hearing him say Mary Mac Lee-odd instead of Mary Mac Cleod pronounced as Mary Mac Cloud in Scottish

[Kiya]

Oh Grandad your about as grey as we are here

[LovelyLadyLux]

Hmmm - could be a tie or tye between Grandad and me re: grey or is that gray

Haven't seen sun for 2 days now and even the street lights are still on at 9:33am........Bummer. Need to know - when does blue actually dip to grey? AND isn't there a such a difference?

Am thinking the sun just HAS to be UP there somewhere!

I always thought it interesting that Co-lin Powell's name was pronounced that way. I figured he changed it to signify his rank and make him distinct!

[Winged Isis]

Look no further; the sun is down here! Temps all over Oz are in the 30s and 40s, and bushfires raging too. Lord bless the man who invented air con!