Grey Granite and Rufus walked down to the beach, passing through a snowy James Ramsey Park on the way. There is a thaw, roads mainly have a single clear track but the pavements are impassible on account of the feet of snow cleared from the roads heaped up on them. Already in the park there are catkins forming on the alders and on the willows silky, white catkins are emerging from their sheaths on the young reddish twigs, very encouraging.
We walked down to the bents and reached the beach via Tiger Hill where a family was enjoying sledging. There is still snow down to the high tide mark, by contrast the sand looks very dark. We have been amazed at how little sign there has been of people actually going out and enjoying the snow, even in the early 'deep and crisp and even stage'. In the park and on the South Links there are still huge areas of completely undisturbed snow.
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