Beaches and coastline near Morpeth, Newcastle.

I enjoyed a fabulous couple of days exploring around Morpeth in Newcastle. One day we spent exploring the East coast of North England. There are many castles dotted around this area but it was the sand the sea, the fabulous rock formations and the incredible sky that I fell in love with. here are just a few of the pictures I took.

Cloudy thinking

Today I am living in a cloud.
A great grey cold and clammy cloud.
It has erased the hill above me,
And the vast green valley below.
Erased, replaced by a great grey sea.
Sound still travels across the abyss,
The eerie song of birds you cannot see,
The occasional car, or even rarer voice.
Out in the sticks solitude is your adversary,
With only your thoughts to protect you
From the shapeless insubstantial enemy,
Of loneliness.

by Izzy Silver

Perseverance Hill, Wyche Cutting, Malvern Hills, Worcestershire

View looking north

Malvern Town, Poolbrook area as viewed from top

The Pathway

Perseverance Hill is reached from Wyche Cuttings by taking the path behind the bus stop. Wyche bus stop has a witch for a weather vane on top of it. Wyche however has nothing to do with witches, and is actually a derivation of winch, as when the local quarries where still being worked there was a winch here.

It is not far from where you park to the top of the hill, so you quickly find yourself on the hill ridge looking either south towards British Camp or north towards the Worcestershire beacon. If you look down on the eastern side of the hill you have a clear view of the Poolbrook and Fruitlands areas.

On a windless day like today, especially with the weak spring sunshine trying it's best, the views across the ridge are amazing.

I also saw my first rabbit today, though at the speed it streaked of at it may have been a hare, and it is March and it looked a little mad. I tried my best to get a picture of it, but as the last photo shows, not very successfully, though you can make it out.

View looking south

View looking across Wyche Cuttings

A hare, (honestly) running across Grundy's Meadow