I've had a wonderful weekend. Yesterday, with the whole family I went to Newcastle and had a great early dusk evening ramble around the Sage , Millennium Bridge up the Baltic Art Gallery and then into the City . We had a meal at the Wok Inn, our favourite family friendly fine food eating emporium and then went to a Memorial gathering at the Newcastle Bahai Center for one of the friends whose father and died recently in Iran. That was great and very moving although I noticed there was a lot of joy and laughter afterwards during the social part and all the nice Iranian food. It was great when we walked into the place and  the first thing we saw were the Iranian rice cookers plugged into the wall cooking and keeping the rice warm . Very nice .

Today I took Miles down to RKade Skatepark in Redcar   and went for a great birdwatching walk on the beach and saw a huge duck in the sea which I can't identify . I cannot relate it to anything on the RSPB site but it must be there . I also spotted a great geological feature which is a bit less of a mystery , which is :  all of the Redcar reefs exposed by the low tide are straight and parallel to each other  except one which bends in parallel with the other rocks as if it is part of a huge circle . I know they are called arcuate bands  but what they represent  I've yet to work out . Its either a fossilised meandering river bed , because they exist further down the coast or a tilted on its side anticline, part of the Cleveland Dome which is where the North Yorkshire Moors are geologically  at at the moment . A fun evening is set up to crack these bird and rock mysteries .  Well,  the meatballs  are cooking in the tomatoe sauce and I feel very settled ,  because I've decided to apply for Teaching assistant and Cover Support jobs in education and I'm putting the songwriting on hold for a while . It's a bit too easy that stuff at times 'cos my head is full of melodies and I just have to reach out and write them . The world is winning folks and  in spite of the woes lets focus on the good stuff as well.