Bloody hell – it’s March already! We’re now just a few weeks away from the first anniversary of ‘Lockdown’ and the event that’s turned many people’s lives upside down…

It may be the month when spring arrives but the balmy weather we had yesterday was but a flash in the pan. Today we were back to temperatures in single figures and a miasma that hung around all day, blocking views of anything more than a few hundred metres away. The gloomy weather left me with a severe disinclination to venture out. Instead I spent most of the day catching up on paperwork and scanning old slides of sunnier climes. When I did sally forth my walk was a short circular one to pick up some shopping and that was that. I’m working on the assumption that banking my time whilst the weather’s so poor will leave me in credit when it improves and restrictions on movement begin to lift. Oh, and having a pub beer garden to walk to rather than wondering aimlessly without a destination in mind will be a great improvement too!

Anyway, here’s the picture of the day which was taken on Arambol beach in Goa between Xmas and New Year 1993…

Each evening local children from the village would turn up to play on the beach once the heat of the day had dissipated. Here, a group of young boys play cricket whilst a young Western boy (who wasn’t English) looks on in bemusement. It wasn’t just the locals who’d appear this time of day as many Westerners would appear to jog, juggle or just enjoy a stroll along the miles of sand before adjourning to one of the beachfront restaurants for a sunset beer. Oh, to be able to do that right now…

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