Easter Saturday saw crowds on the beach - by our standards - all madly exercising as if this might be the only day of warm sunny weather we're likely to see this summer, some even taking the extreme step....
....of a dip in the sea - we've hardly ever seen anybody swimming off Golspie - sharing it with....
....gulls and upwards of a hundred eider.
With Sunday grey and increasingly windy we walked in the protection of the woods, remarking on the haste with which the trees and shrubs were exploding into leaf and flower but when we looked out of our window as evening came on we....
....saw the first signs of the snow which had been forecast.
By this morning, with the tamest of our robins sitting outside the kitchen waiting patiently for breakfast, a bitter westerly was blowing bringing in heavy snow showers and occasional....
....bright sunshine, not weather that's much fun....
....for anybody, even a well-fed robin. The statistics for yesterday were stark: 11C maximum, -4C minimum overnight, and -1C at nine in the morning. Not pleasant, except we can't stand the idea of a day skulking indoors so we put on our all-weather winter gear and....
....ventured into Dunrobin woods for a couple of hours' brisk walking.
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