February 21st was our AGM night but the evening started with David Boulton’s talk on “A Stream from Mountain to Sea”. This was no specific stream but a conflation of waters throughout Great Britain that he had recorded by deft camera-work over several years. It began with a 3000ft water slide down a Scottish mountain, then more familiar lofty water falls on their way to bustle their way through wide and quiet glens. More robust, but equally picturesque, falls feeding Cumbrian lakes and cascading through Yorkshire dales followed. Next came the greater volumes of water in Wales (where else!) with falls many feet in width, and where riverbank trees were thickly coated with moss, and on to the mellow streams and stepping-stoned valleys of the Peak District and the Cotswolds. Finally we reached the placid waters of East Anglia with their profusion of wild life before crossing the mudflats of Breydon Water and on to the open sea. It was a novel idea and delightful to the eyes – far removed from the wintry conditions outside.
George Jeffries