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Utmost East

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On a Friday morning, in the dark of winter, I watched the sunrise on the most easterly point of the  British Isles.  I had come to Lowestoft Ness to trace the mirror image of a walk I’d taken in the autumn.  Then I had travelled south and east from Land’s End and finished at the church of St. Levan.  I had reversed the order of   east   and west ,  but  lines from the hymn kept popping into my head, “ From  utmost east for utmost west, where er man’s foot hath trod.....” And I thought of  St. Levan, who had evangelised that part of Cornwall and our early East Anglian missionary saints - Felix and Fursey, Botolf and Cedd. They all loved the sea and built their hermits’ cells and monasteries on the edge . All would have approved of the children’s chorus “Wide, wide as the ocean...” Night turned to day as I started out along Gas Works Road towards the semi-redundant fish docks.  It doesn’t sound promising, does it? But not everything was gloom and doom . There were signs