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  This was the scene at the harbour in Arbroath at lunchtime for what is known up here in Scotland as The New Year Dook. Folk old & young get in the sea (yes it's freezing cold but apparently that's the point) It's all over in 15 minutes and around 50 people took part - usually to raise money for charity and I though I didn't do it this year I have done in the past. I used to go to the one in Broughty Ferry a few miles down the coast but the organisers have ruined it with loudspeakers playing generic pop music and burger vans everywhere, Arbroath keeps it real with a lone piper playing as folk wade into the water which is much better.

  

  

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    led by the piper to the seaGardener
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