Clare Gaylard Glass 

My first spring in ten years! After a decade in Asia I am enjoying every moment and constantly awed by the obvious and the familiar. This was yesterday when a boy and a dog needed walking, we took a detour to Felixstowe and had a long walk by the sea. Just as the photos of Asia never show the intensity of the heat, these can't convey the biting cold of the seaside air. Most of the beach huts are off the sea front at the moment and the winter winds have swept large banks of sand off the beach, its pretty austere and minimal.