Each summer I waste a lot of time and energy photographing the local bird life, which is not really practical with a mobile phone which renders geese as a distant blur. But today by a fluke I was standing in a field and the geese wheeled overhead in beautiful formation:-

It was a peach of a morning – clear blue sky, unusually clear and sun. By ten o’clock, they had closed the road to the beach and the local village was over-run. The phenomenon of the staycation is real in Anglesey, with three times as many people as usual everywhere, the campsite full, the single street full of cars, what is normally a quiet small village chock full of people.

We sloped off to the mud flats of Malltraeth Estuary instead:-

I stopped off at Castell Bryn-Gwyn, a wonderfully nondescript neolithic fort reached down a long muddy track from a lay-by just outside Brynsiencyn: nothing but cows and fields, in the middle of nowhere, thought to have been a religious sanctuary:-

After two days of bad weather, it’s looking better:-

The local tea shop is doing takeaway cream teas – two scones per box and two small punnets of jam and clotted cream, a wooden knife and paper napkin:-

We took the buggy down to the beach today:-

It was surprisingly empty and very beautiful:-

I keep reading about the problems independent cheesemakers have been having as a result of Covid-19 – small independent producers who are dependent on restaurants taking their wares. All I can say is that I have enjoyed cheese and eaten more of it with more pleasure than at any time: the fridge is packed with parcels from Neal’s Yard who can pack up a box and deliver, as they have been throughout the epidemic. So, I want to thank them for, as far as possible, stocking the wares of small independent producers and supporting their work as far as they can.

I walked out to the beach:-

And back again:-

There were horses in the field again this morning:-