Still (just about) holding it together. Still stupidly busy. Hope all's well with you all.
I'm feeling horribly homesick for the North East and especially Northumberland, for which I blame
jamalov29. So I've been looking at pictures...
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v218/casscaro/w-092087-dunstanburghcastle-propert.jpg)
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v218/casscaro/w-075470-embleton-gallery_picture.jpg)
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v218/casscaro/embletonbeach.jpg)
Dunstanburg Castle and Embleton Beach. A childhood haunt, and one I still dearly love.
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v218/casscaro/bamburgh-castle-5.jpg)
And Bamburgh... twee, but beautiful in the right light, and we get a lot of good light up there...
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v218/casscaro/hadrianswall.jpg)
Hadrian's Wall. Many a soggy school trip spent there, but get it on a good day, when the clouds are scudding and the wind is ripping through your hair and the curlews are crying and there's no place on earth like it.
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v218/casscaro/NT43NorthTyneValleyFromOldMansSheel.jpg)
And this is the Tyne Valley. Beautiful and still pretty much undiscovered.
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v218/casscaro/moors.jpg)
And the moors.. space... silence... solitude...
Damn, I need a break.