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Blown away!

We are buffeted by one storm after another at the moment.  They just keep on coming across the Atlantic and although we are on the east coast, by the time they get to us the winds are still ferocious and exhausting!  But we have been lucky too.  Lovely sunshine over the past few days, so walks have been quite exhilarating!

The wind has been whipping up the Firth of Forth into an endless series of wavelets which stream towards the beaches.  Yesterday we walked around the edge of two golf courses which lie side by side and tight to the coastline.  It was very, very windy but in the sunshine it was a good walk!  There were wonderful views to Edinburgh and across the sea to Fife.
Looking back across to the bay to the headland where we had just been walking, on our way home we saw eight para surfers having a whale of time in the wind!

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