Saturday 24th November 2001 9.26am
A light northwesterly in today: the cold east wind has left us for now and we have back our mild overcast days instead. The boats lie calm on the water, facing wind and receding tide without trouble. The horizon today is the line of sand that is Sandscale and Lowsy Point: there is nothing to see beyond that. On Walney, the trees are still clinging to their last leaves, still waiting for that first severe frost to break each leaf’s hold.