27th July, 2018....Lyme Regis and an early Autumn at The Abbey!

Well, the temperatures hit 37 degrees celsius in some parts of the UK yesterday...including the M6 that we were trapped on!!!! It was 'Lorryhitsbridgegate' and we happened to be travelling back from Lyme Regis just at that time....we did a detour around Blackburn, Clitheroe and the A65, which was also gridlocked but at least sitting in that twelve mile queue allowed me to view the beautiful Pendle Hill- I've always wanted to and never have!!

An arresting site! Talking of lovely views....this has greeted us every day this week.....

...ever since viewing The French Lieutenant's Woman in the 90s at some point, I've always wanted to visit here, then reading Tracy Chevalier's Remarkable Creatures a few years ago made me decide.....

...it's a lovely 'old fashioned' sea side resort, and the Mary Anning angle and fossils of the Jurassic Coast add a historical twist.....and The Cobb.....

…..loved it!! Loved seeing information about the making of Persuasion and French Lieutenant too, in the quaint little aquarium on The Cobb....

...we've stood there and had a light lunch there!!!!

Someone else taking the photos for once....everyone fascinated by the 'mullet feeding'!!

It is quite scary what the heatwave is doing to the landscape though.....

...these photos from today look like early Autumn don't they....

...look at the beck....there is no beck!

School is finally out for this one....that's why he's smiling!!