About TanGental
My name is Geoff Le Pard. Once I was a lawyer; now I am a writer. I've published several books: a four book series following Harry Spittle as he grows from hapless student to hapless partner in a London law firm; four others in different genres; a book of poetry; four anthologies of short fiction; and a memoir of my mother. I have several more in the pipeline.
I have been blogging regularly since 2014, on topic as diverse as: poetry based on famous poems; memories from my life; my garden; my dog; a whole variety of short fiction; my attempts at baking and food; travel and the consequent disasters; theatre, film and book reviews; and the occasional thought piece. Mostly it is whatever takes my fancy.
I avoid politics, mostly, and religion, always. I don't mean to upset anyone but if I do, well, sorry and I suggest you go elsewhere.
These are my thoughts and no one else is to blame. If you want to nab anything I post, please acknowledge where it came from.
TanGental 
So nice. No people and all that space to yourself.😘
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I know. It won’t last. And five miles down the coast, they are on the cusp of starting work on a new nuclear reactor (Sizewell C). That’ll bring all sorts of issues to a head, including a huge new population locally.
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😱
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Is Dog not a swimmer then?
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Nope, hates everything water based thank heavens
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And Zen, there’s Dog!
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He’s always willing to pose!
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I think Dog may have enjoyed his days out as much or more than you. A surfeit of smells for his nose! Are those snowdrops? Beautiful!
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They are a complete carpet of snowdrops. Stunning. And you’re right
He was totally engrossed in what the countryside has to offer him.
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Just being Dog!
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Are we looking at the Channel or the Atlantic? Dog looks guilty – did he pee on a snowdrop?
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The North Sea. We’re on the east coast pointing off towards Norway. And he peed on several in truth
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I love the photos of wood anemones. There is a wood near here that is carpeted with them every spring. I keep saying I’ll go and photograph them, but haven’t got round to it yet. They are so beautiful and delicate.
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Sorry! Mistook the snowdrops for wood anemones. Didn’t look closely enough!
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Those carpets- snowdrops, anemones, bluebells ae always delightful
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They certainly are. We also have carpets of bluebells in another wood close by.
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Very soothing. That ruined church/abbey shows signs of having been visited by Henry VIII !
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Yes he didn’t really get the cloistered lifestyle did he?
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It was also messed around a couple of hundred years ago as the local landowner thought Henry hadn’t done the job properly and the ruin wasn’t sufficiently ruinous, he wanted something a bit more romantic.
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Bloody doey uppers…
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Are those pebbles on the beach? The snowdrops are gorgeous.
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Yep lots of sand and lots of pebbles and, for reasons I can’t begin to explain a large number are hagstones… I’ll let you look that up!
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Haha, I will.
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