Delays .

 A dry but chill start to the day. We were supposed to be in London today but yesterdays last train to Kings Cross got no further South than Edinburgh. There was  heavy rain and the line from Newcastle to York was blocked by flooding and a land slide. After an hour sitting waiting  on the train at Waverley we decide to get off and head back home. Dinner, dentist and doctors appointments are rapidly rearranged.  The hotel of course requires payment. One of those ' Our regulations clearly state that payment must be made in full ' conversations. We shall fly from Dundee to Heathrow in two weeks time. By the time we got home the train company, unbidden, had refunded the full fare. This only happens when the delays are 'serious'. 

The sea gulls enjoying an early morning dip in the stream that disgorges into the harbour.

Back at The Last Wee House Before Denmark the young American archaeologists are at work. From  the courtyard we can see two bright orange figures beavering away down by the shore. It has now started to rain.

They've discovered more tombs. Seems that the area below the raised beach has been used as a burial place since humans first arrived here. 'John Wayne' thinks that early settlers may have lived up on the high ground and used the shore below  to bury their dead. During the war a large gun emplacement was built right over the centre of the site. The sea has now washed it, and many of the tombs, away.

The bakers window display has foregone hot cross buns in favour of Easter eggs.

New ideas :https://www.space.com/what-is-emergent-gravity

Changing world :https://www.sciencenorway.no/career-choices-education-gender-and-society/what-do-boys-want-to-be-when-they-grow-up/2338048

For the last three days a hundred or so of these birds have been resting in the freshly ploughed field. Remarkably, they form a perfect circle when they're on the ground.  https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/trees-woods-and-wildlife/animals/birds/fieldfare/