The clocks change.

Happy Easter. The clocks change. There's an hours less sleep. We head out of the courtyard and onto the track that runs down to the sea. Within seconds we're spotted by the ' why walk alone when you can walk with us ?' pack.

There is an enthusiastic reunion . It is all of twelve hours since the farmers wife shooed the Jack Russells out of our garden and along the track back home.  

The i-Phone camera has difficulty picking them out but there are eight deer walking in a line towards the sea. I'm hoping we might see them wandering onto the beach to nibble at the seaweed but they're too skittish. They hop over the stone walls and rush to the safety of the cauliflower field. In the morning sun their rumps glow.

Easter Sunday and the Old Course is closed. This doesn't stop a group of American golfers from honing their putting skills in the warm up area. The golfers are of the opinion that back home they'd be able to play on a Sunday. " Just think how much more money they'd make ". I'm guessing they're waiting for seven o'clock and the  breakfast service to start in their hotels. 

Some real warmth in the sun this morning.  This will be good news for the local evangelicals who are having a break of day Easter baptism in the  sea water pool. A group of a dozen or so folks waiting to be dipped stand, wrapped in dressing gowns, by the deep end.  Further down the beach a large group of bikini clad girls are playing their guitars and enjoying a picnic. Neither gathering seems bothered by the other or, if they are, they don't show it. Up by the cathedral a small gathering of conservative Catholics are holding a Latin mass. On the cliff top on the other side of the road forty or fifty Presbyterians are singing ' There is a green hill far away'. They're accompanied by a lady with a concertina. When was the last time you saw a concertina ? The lady with the concertina is wearing a tweed two piece with a skirt that stops conservatively between knee and ankle.

So starts Easter Sunday in a small, sunny - almost warm , town on the North Sea coast. This morning the place is full of song.

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