Pure joy

tim gave the fence a little kick while i took a pic.... :) (click on it to see it entirely)

it was freezing cold today!! and we decided it should be a day without work....  off we went with the car. to the beach was the destination... it was freezing cold!! it was so cold that this fence was entirely frozen, and the ocean, next to it, looked like a giant slushee... (i only remember slushee since i saw it in the movie "little miss sunshine"), unfortunately the pics of that just show a grey frozen mass, the movement of the waves was what made it funny....

on our way we saw a goodwill store (where people bring stuff they dont want anymore, so other people can buy it for little money), and we bought a lovely seemingly brand new chair for only 20 dollars!! it perfectly matches our free couch. now i can read in the chair while tim sleeps on the couch (although vice versa is more likely, nowadays)! then we drove on and eventually ended up in Hull, where we have been before, but this time the beach was quite a bit more deserted...then we had pizza in this restaurant along the shore. that was already our third time there, but their pizza is just so terribly gooood!! (even though we had to wait quite a bit as they forgot our pizza in the oven; they had to make a new one).

Snow drift

when walking to the station yesterday morning, i heard some birds, it was very sunny, not cold at all. even warm, perhaps? and i thought i could smell spring... i was writing some lines in my mind that surely would some way or another make it here, accompanied by a bright and sunny photo....

not so much, today it was very cold again!! the wind is blowing around, making it even colder. we went to the cinema, for a change.. :), and saw "the eagle", not about americans, but about a roman that wanted the eagle back that his father had lost somewhere in britain. at times the movie reminded me of "the long walk" (another rather recent crappy movie). both had in common that there were barely women and quite some hardship and fighting. there were at least 3 little kids in the audience, im not sure this movie was the best choice for them. tim just wrote on facebook "avoid at all costs". ah well, i would not go that far; at times it was interesting....

when getting out of the theater it was suddenly terribly cold (-8 C; yesterday it was +13 C)! even more wind, and snow.. blown around by the wind just above the black streets. actually very pretty; i tried to take a picture of it... reminded me of liquid nitrogen on lab floors.....