Today, I decided to drive the car.  I had a shot yesterday and found it didn’t hurt as much as I thought it would and yes, I could do an emergency stop.  So, off I drove.  The weather has been very curate’s egg – good, bad and very very fast.  It changes in minutes.

I love driving around.  Even the local routes have much to see.

The neighbour’s ponies were being unforgiveable.  I hate it when they do this to the fences.  I usually set BeAnne onto mine but I didn’t have her in the car. I also didn’t think it would be “a good thing” to set Her Maj onto someone else’s ponies!

I met up with some friends for lunch (yes, I am Café society) in the local church.  They make the best soup, bacon rolls and cake!  Hmmmm….. whoever made that Victoria sponge can live in my kitchen.

Then I made the most of my freedom and drove about looking for good waves.  A normal Shetland day, Gale Force something.

I saw a strange coloured wild bunny.  This are a few of them about and I suspect pet rabbits have made it into the local population.  We also have Myxomatosis, which is horrible.

My neighbour’s Shetland ponies looked amazing against the background of the stormy sea.

I drove to Dale Beach where Foula sits bang in the middle.  Did you know that down in this sea is the sister ship to the Titanic – RMS Oceanic – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Oceanic_(1899) – it went down on 8 September 1914?

And then I became obsessed with waves.  Where did the blue colour hide?  The sea was grey and stormy. I took many photos just to capture that magical ocean blue.

I sat in my little car and watched the sea for a while.  It was incredible.  All that enormous force.

And then I drove home again.

Golly, it is good to be out.