Time to get the feet up - but not for the others.

Felt guilty when I left the Pub after only twelve hours, but the back shift were on , aided by Sir Christopher ( The Laird) who was doing a doubler to help Paddy and the troops as the place was still very busy. David ( Chef) was back after a couple of weeks off, had his exams and a few days up in Skye with his relatives.

Claire is off in the morning with her family for a few days at Centre Park so we hope they get there safely and enjoy themselves.

RGB had been away for the quiet spell up to the Caledonian Brewery to join the Deuchar's party there, so when I went up I discovered Archie ( The Pole Dancer) , Alan, his father in law - ever so alert !!! and one of the Supervisors from The Standing Order.

Attempted to get back to The Mercat but ran into a human roadblock - just unbelievable with thousands of fans streaming back into the City from Murrayfield - they could not get along the footpaths as they were narrowed down with all the fencing for the Tramworks so by sheer numbers they took to the road holding everything up. I got stuck but was able to take a short detour the wrong way up a one way street and get turned and into the NCP car park. Oddly enough I saw a young lady this morning taking photo's of a few hazards and faults around the Morrison Street Car Park.

The bar was kept busy with a good crowd as were showing a replay of the game - just a pity that Scotland came in second.

So when I left, it was snowing again , and a lot worse in Penicuik. Not looking forward to tomorrow morning as the Water Board in their wisdom have shut the A702 trunk road at twelve hours notice to run the new Edinburgh water mains across it - so everything from the south who would normally use the road will head through Penicuik again. The main contractor is Carillion, same as the Tramworks, only difference is that these guys work - so hopefully they will make this a speedy job and get the road open fast.

Photos on the TV at the moment of the devastation in Australia with the death toll rising every hour - it is frightening, and we have no control over nature. However what is also unbelievable is that some of the fires were started deliberately by bloody nutcases.
This, sadly is commonplace as has been seen in many other parts of the world, the USA , Spain , France, etc.

This carry on with bonuses in the Banking industry, I have said all along that it was the greedy money grabbing Bas****s who had brought all this about - did not take a rocket scientist to work that out. By now we have an angry populace who may well consider that Mr Darling and Mr Brown and their cronies are a bit late in taking any action - and our voters might well have an answer for them given the opportunity.

Fun's fun - enough for the day. Just have to see what Monday brings - however it is one day nearer my own holidays - only ten more sleeps, as the bairns would say.