We went for a walk along the esplanade in Kirkcaldy today and as you can see it was high tide – in fact very high tide. The sea was coming right over the sea-wall, which is in desperate need of being renewed or at least patched up.

Whoever decided to pave the esplanade with brick paviors must be in need of a new brain. They are all being ripped up by the heavy waves and it makes it very dodgy underfoot.

We had to jump out of the way of the sea water and managed to miss being absolutely soaked, which is just as well because you really don’t want bits of the North Sea coming down on your head, thankfully the worst bit of debris which came in our direction was a plastic container which must have been tied to a boat at one point as the rope was still attached.

At the moment the weather is really calm with no high winds so the rough sea isn’t weather related, I think it’s something to do with the phase of the moon.