A quiet day off or what

Typing this on the bus!! sad is'nt it?

Long lie, even although I did wake up early, bit pottering around the house, had a swim and then set about popping in all the bedding plants Mrs. B. had bought for me - so the front of the house is looking better than it has been for a few years. Despite the promise of good weather, we are still waiting and hoping.

Had a trip to the shops ,and despite the fact that there are umpteen premises lying empty in the town centre they are now building a new take away – possibly a MacDonalds in the main car park at the Town Centre – so we have less parking, our trees are being chopped down, etc.so much for the carbon footprint.

This is Penicuik’s Hunter and Lass week so the town is decked out with bunting, and the “shows” are once again taking up residence in the public park – so for the next few days we will have noise and the usual gangs of youths congregating.

In the meantime the Hunter and Lass celebrations will continue, a big ball on Friday night and then the Ride Out to Penicuik House and up into the Pentland Hills on Saaturday.

Many moons ago a young RGB had the honour of being the Hunter for a year and representing Peniuik at all the different ride outs and similar events throughout the East of Scotland and the Borders. He even made it as far as Annan and Dumfries – a great year.

Talking of RGB , he has featured in the Edinburgh Evening News tonight after they got wind of his “Fill a Hole” posters. A good article, but the Tram folks claim it was members of the public who complained and asked them to tell him to take the posters down !! or vandals who destroyed them.

We had a great write up about the Bar in one of the weekend supplements, someone had been in for dinner and really praised the food and the premises - nice, the staff were pleased.

Just before I left to get the bus I heard a comment on the TV , apparently Lilly Allan ( of all people) was saying that she thinks our Susan Boyle from Blackburn is overrated and that her voice is not what it is cracked out to be – cheeky madam, so far, she is miles better than anyone else on "Britain's got Talent".


Having been married for 39 years, (for better or for worse) as the minister said, I find these showbiz types rather amusing, they fall in and out of “love” at the drop of a hat, have quickie weddings, divorces , and some are literally tossing a coin to decide who to get “married” to, Jordan, Madonna, Britney Speirs and Beyonce all being recent examples.

Now in the town and we are running he gauntlet of the dreaded cyclists who appear to be a law unto themselves, sailing through red lights, wrong way up one way streets, short cuts over pavements, no lights at night, and then have the cheek to blame the motorise if they get into difficulties AND the Police seem to totally ignore their antics - maybe not enough points for doing them – might be time to let the traffic wardens loose on them – now that would be controversial !!


Being controversial, Ranger's having won the SPL, I see that Gordon Strachan has resigned his post as Celtic Manager, did he jump or was he pushed - talking of which, I spotted the item about the man in China who was threatening suicide and causing all sorts of traffic chaos, so a passer by pushed him off the bridge claiming he was being selfish !!! as it turned out the man did not die but was badly injured - nice to see someone with a positive attitude, we have a bridge somewhere around here where there are regular attempts, but when the services arrive they usually tell the person to jump - as the water is only knee deep.

Now in The Mercat - and the wine tasting about to commence.