All tagged windy
And how we laughed when she told us in a slightly amused way that Vindolanda was actually a Roman fort and was not on the wall at all. She very kindly shared with us the name of a car park not far away where we would be able to see the wall but no, there was no wall where we were.
There is peace and solitude in wildness. Skies, grey and inpenetrable, and wind fierce enough to leave even the strongest of us staggering for a moment.
Perhaps only those with a heightened sense of time would venture out in such conditions, to walk the shifting, crunching shingle and to hold a defiant face up to the weather.
For us, there were inevitably tears during and after the film, based around our empathy for the family and also on our own personal experience of suicide.
