Featuring the songs: Golfing in the Snow, Raisin Sunday Cava, Playing on the 18th, Dutch Masters Come to Town, and, The Empty Band Stand.
It had snowed again last night, so before heading to church I went down to the Old Course and West Sands. A little bit of my brain had completely forgotten that it was Raisin Sunday and that some people do breakfast parties. I was a little surprised, therefore, to find several groups of undergrads on the beach in various amusing* outfits playing golf. It seems that the fashionable idea is to play some beach golf whilst swigging cava** out of the bottle at 9 o’clock in the morning. The snow appears to have been simply an added bonus. This group of kids was more sensibly dressed than some, and they very kindly posed for some photos.
Apart from the undergraduates, the beach was absolutely beautiful, especiallywhen viewed from a distance. With the way the light was – sunlight coming out over the town, but snow clouds still out over the beach, there was a fabulous blue light reflecting off the snow along the beach. It looked a bit like one of those Dutch paintings of the canals and streets in winter, with little black silhoutted figures going about their business – or their pleasure.
*Though of course they may have been wearing them in an unironic manner, this is St Andrews after all.
**It may have been real champagne, of course, this is St Andrews after all.
