Save Your WAves - Barefoot Wine Beach Rescue Project at Longsands

Another afternoon of beach clean-up is planned for Friday, 16th May, from 2pm - 5pm at Tynemouth
Longsands, meet-up outside Crusoes Cafe…

http://www.sas.org.uk/region/north-east/

… website of Surfers Against Sewage, North East Region,

Snowdrops, Leaping Hares

A surprise snowdrop has found its way into this container in the garden, dormant maybe among the spring bulbs planted there two years ago?

Leaping hares.

Sunrise, Frost On The Beach...

beachcombing

frost on the beach, Priory's Haven

sunrise at King Edward's Bay

Blue Monday at the beach, just before school starts, sun sparkling on frost and water. It's just above freezing but everyone who's out this early stops to look at the sea - blue again,  low ripples like stirred silk. 

Light Southerly...

Light southerly winds bring in the new year. Today I found some of last summer's flowers above the estuary, and in the garden the first camellia buds...

… blue velvet draught excluders made this evening for the Sunday market:

Happy New Year...

… sunlight and sanderlings at the Fish Quay this afternoon - all best wishes for 2014!

Jasmine and Chamomile...

Sea Witch is back at Tynemouth Station Market this Saturday, 16th November - I hope you will find time to stop by and say hello if in the area. New this week are Jasmine and Chamomile botanical sachets, in antique linen and cotton prints from Morris & Co, Liberty of London and the Da Gama Company. These are a new blend - the chamomile flowers, as well as adding their own unearthly and stress-soothing fragrance, preserve the usually fleeting floral scent of the jasmine essential oil, in the same way as natural gums and fixatives such as orris root. Try them if you want to make a pot-pourri and don't have time to look for fixatives - the dried flowers are available at health food stores and can even be taken from herbal teabags bought at the supermarket!

I'll be adding these to the online shops next week.

Also new, for the Sea Witch's familiar:

William Morris 'Sweet Briar' catnip mice, with tails of cotton lace or handspun silk.

Listening:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03h3ybp/Afternoon_Drama_The_Icelandic_Journals/

Lavinia Greenlaw's play adapted from William Morris's 'Icelandic Journals'.

Sea Witch at Tynemouth Market

Sea Witch will be at Tynemouth Market from next weekend - some photos of the newly restored
Victorian Station from earlier posts:

http://seawitchtynemouth.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/heritage-skills-at-tynemouth-station.html

http://seawitchtynemouth.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/doves-rivermouth-wishes.html


http://www.tynemouthmarkets.com/market-info/