SNAPSHOT. Lytham. Setting Sail.

The Ribble Estuary is wide here as it open out on it’s way to the Irish Sea.

The Ribble Estuary is wide here as it open out on it’s way to the Irish Sea.

These last few days have not been pleasant at all, far from it. Don’t tell me that those lovely, sun kissed day of not so far ago were all that we are getting for summer? After this sodden weekend I feel a need to jump back a few weeks or so in my photographic time machine to a sunny Sunday in Lytham where people sat out in the sun and […]

The weather at the moment in the UK is behaving like a stroppy teenager having a strop.

I had a day out planned for today. I’d done some research, checked the timetables AND taken a look at the weather forecast.

Yesterday evening sort of ran away and hid from me so here’s how my cake hunting finished up. The cake turned into a bagel. A favourite stopping off point is the cafe Toast on the station at West Kirby. It’s so easy for me to trot off the train, through the barrier and around the corner and in. I was looking at at the cakes but then I noticed brie […]

Time now for the next stage of my coffee and cake hunt. To the Wirral by the Merseyrail Wirral Loop Line ! In some ways this post has similarities with the Newcastle Metro I posted about previously. Both are largely based on conversations of existing rail routes, both are electric, Newcastle overhead, Wirral Loop 3rd rail and both have underground sections. This route serves West Kirby, New Brighton and down […]