Picture of the Week: #35

[taken in week running from 27/08 to 02/09]

Even though this is indeed a beach photo, it's not really beach weather, is it? This was taken at Frinton-on-Sea, a small town on the Essex coast famous for being full of old people and never, ever changing anything. It was here that there was a terrible fuss over opening a pub and a fish and chip shop. Not because of any design problems with them, you understand...there is simply a feeling that it's not what we do here in Frinton. It's not hugely surprising that the rather cruel slogan "Harwich for the Continent, Frinton for the incontinent" was devised, given the circumstances.

Anyway, I took this photo not to show off Frinton's beautiful beachfront - as you can see, it's not really anything to write home about - but to show the bizarre colours that you can get in and over the North Sea. It wasn't great weather, but even so, if you painted a seascape like that you'd be told that those colours never really appear. I remember, back when I was much younger, watching the waves come in and thinking that it looked as though someone had poured a massive jar of set honey into the sea.

The really weird part is that the rest of my family had just gone for a swim in that sea...