Rained on, dripping from, steamed up, soaked, waterlogged or cloaked in fog; there’s no escaping the fact that today it is wet. But it’s still amazingly warm for a late October day and once you’re out in it you realise it’s better than being in. Inevitably, todays contact sheet is on the theme of being washed out. What am i saying? I don’t do themes. I hate themes. But this page seems to almost have one so what the hell.

I’m still on a bit of a roll with the stones of the day and once again there are two. What can I say about them? Well you wouldn’t want to find the first in a bag of pork scratchings… Or maybe it’s a small Casper-the-ghost, or maybe it’s small wriggling worm with very big eyes so it can see where it’s tunnelling. You choose, or find your own connections? The second? Sometimes you come across stones on the beach that have the most wonderful striped patinations. What causes this? The remains of some fossil shell, or fragment of tree-grain, rings or ridges worn flat by the tides? Or fracture lines developing inside the rock itself? I have no idea, but this makes it all the better.