I know, deep blue. But I have just reviewed several hundred pics that I’ve taken of the sea from my front door, and this was one of the very few, completely and unequivocally, blue. Whatever color, it’s a good reason to live somewhere far from the madding crowd!

‘Far from the madding crowd’s ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn’d to stray; Along the cool sequester’d vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.’ Thomas Gray

Though we don’t live in a ‘country churchyard’, it is pretty quiet around here.