Restfull massage and a trip to the hills

Another nice morning , all psyched up and down to see Cruella @ Sabrina, who was excellent today. Manged to get it right, when she found a knot she went in deeper, so after an hour I was better than I had been for ages.

Home, changed the footwear and then up to Castlelaw Fort ( Old earth fort dating back to 500BC), beautiful morning and some superb views of the Pentland Hills, including tghe site of the Battle of Rullion Green (1666) the new water works and reservoir being built at Mauricewood, and also the Castlelaw army firearms range which is one of the biggest in Europe.

Spotted a new lamb in the rocks, possibly hiding from the shepherds team of dogs, a Border Collie and some bearded collies. The bearded collies not only round up the sheep but can bring them down and then lie on them till the shepherd gets there.

I met up with Maureen from SAC and the shepherd, he has ten dogs which he uses with the flock of 1000 sheep most days. Today they were inoculating and weighing the lambs, but with the heat our dogs were a bit knackered and it looks as though they lost track of where everyone was going. Sounds a bit like Dennis and Carol Ann's dogs who are still chasing that rabbit around an oval in Ireland.

Home and back into the garden, before going for a swim which I thought would be better for me than the bowling. Five young soldiers from Glencorse Barracks in the pool, two who were really trying hard to get a date with the young female life guards !!

Of today's news, looks like Gordon Brown, our saviour and benefactor, is in deep mire, his Labour Party is in tatters, only time before Mr Smarmy Darling gets his come uppers also.

Andy Murray failed , and fairly badly, in his quarter final game at Paris on clay court - soon be heading for Wimbleton where hopefully he will do a lot better.

Of the Air France plane, downed in the Atlantic, our thoughts are with the familes and friends of the crew and passengers. It went through my mind from day one that there was a similarity to the Panam flight which was downed over Lockerebie by a bomb - in that case the bombers had planned on blowing up the plane over the North Atlantic but with delays it blew up over land - and all these years on is still subject of controvesy. Lets hope that this is not the start of another campaign by these crazy terrorists