No sooner do the tables go out than a storm arrives.

The serious man at the chocolate shop is opening up as we pass. His sales are down this year. A Galaxy Easter Egg is more than double the price it was in 2023 and the wildly popular Cadburys Creme Eggs , despite a bout of 'shrinkflation' , are 80% more expensive. Having digested this news ( and noted the intensity with which it is imparted ) we wish him well and walk on quickly .

Further down the road the ever hopeful local cafe owners are setting up tables on the pavement. It goes without saying that a  storm with 90 mph winds is forecast for Saturday night.

The bakers already selling out by the time we make it back into town from the beach. The holiday makers are in town.  A solitary rhubarb flan is all that remains of the dozen that were here half an hour ago.

As we're leaving a tray of Easter Chicks emerge from the store room.  They'll all be gone in half an hour. 

No comment about this headline on a paper in the supermarket. Seems the 'pearl clutching' UK  is being blamed for a war it wasn't consulted on. It also seems President Macron has also been facing some 'undiplomatic' comments. 

I'll wager that there will be some interesting presentations at this Iranian Studies gathering. 

This London exhibition is already a sell out :https://www.rct.uk/collection/exhibitions/queen-elizabeth-ii-her-life-in-style/the-kings-gallery-buckingham-palace

A good thing :https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/smart-drugs-are-here/

These people are always worth sitting down to read :https://www.rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentary/four-alternative-end-states-iran-only-good-one-becomes-unlikely

Spiders with claws :https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1121624

On the net :https://www.persuasion.community/p/theres-no-such-thing-as-the-trump