Each Easter many groups of churches organise early morning services, frequently making use of the son-rise / sunrise pun. The Soar valley area in which Loughborough sits is one of them with a gathering on top of Beacon Hill which Jane and I try to attend. It always starts at 6:30am which was pretty much perfect timing for the official sunrise time (6:32am when I looked it up last night) and, with clear skies, we got a wonderful view of the burning ball of the sun rising up and giving an increasingly clear light.

The only downside is that, with an Easter morning service in the regular slot at church, hosting a friend for dinner and other things, the early morning definitely starts to weigh in on wakefulness later in the day. However, while we can manage to get there, we’ll help keep up the tradition, even when the timing of Easter means it starts in darkness or the weather means that the view is just a sea of fog!