I do like to be beside the seaside ...

Interior illustration Cooking for Chaps.

Cooking for Chaps cover art published by Kyle Books.

The fourth day of Christmas My true love sent to me Four colly birds, Three French hens, Two turtle-doves And a partridge in a pear-tree.

"Between the two seas the sea-birds wing makes halt, Wind-weary; while with lifting head he waits. For breath to reinspire him from the gates. That open still toward sunrise on the vault. High-domed of morning."

Algernon Charles Swinburne