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Spring is in the air here. Sudden rainstorms interrupt periods of searing sunlight. The spring tides are also here, so yesterday, we were an isolated island again when the barriers were closed for a few hours as there was too much 'wave action' (council-speak for tons of spray crashing down on the barriers when the waves hit them at high tide). The next few photos come from a walk two days ago, when we went for a wander at Lythes, from where there is a lovely view across Newa

Austin's memorial tablet is progressing slowly but we really are getting there. At long last, a piece of Orkney bluestone (same stone as Stonehenge) was extracted after much begging from Orkney Aggregates and Malcolm Dowell, our monumental stonemason was able to get to work. His first job was to transcribe by hand the font we had chosen – Castine by Brian Willson of OldFonts.com – onto the stone block. (It's the same font as we have used on the memorial to Kenneth and Angela