Whiteout

As I write the sky is dark and full of the long threatened snow which is now falling and lying, the earlier flurries having melted away.

From the radio and TV there is general chaos already caused by the high winds so add the snow and we will be wiser to stay in bed.

Made it to Bonnyrigglast night, which was interesting , a new perception on a theme, and afterwards nipped down to Musselburgh to see Robbie @ koala hugger. Good news though, Chris from the Council is now a proud daddy, his good lady giving birth to a 7lb boy in the afternoon. Chris is going to "wet the bairns heid" on Friday afternoon at the Sportsmans.

On the way home found that there was now yet another set of traffic lights causing chaos on the A701` at Ploverhall, so when I checked on the web I found that the whole road from Penicuik to Straiton is going to be turned into a giant mass of roadwords from now till April. It is a total shambles, add to that the fact that the Roslin Glen road is closed totally now due to subsidance, and everyone else heads in on the A702, looks as though the plan is to cut off the City.

On another subject I heard that Lothian and Borders Police have now set minimum targets for their offficers, four charge reeports a month!! - for years it was always rumoured to be the case, but never was till now. It does not sound much, OK in the City where you fall over cases all the time but not so in the County where it is quieter and Police still have to "Police by consent".

The lovely "Princess Kerrin" was working in "The Sportsmans" this morning, was missing me and wondering when I would next appear. Soon I said, as I am now back to nearly 100% and will be doing more shifts there to help out.

Went in to do a cash and carry run in town this morning and on arriving at the Mercat found yet another set of roadworks right outside the pub, so I have no idea what we will do when they shut the road for a planned twenty weeks, the deliverymen will be delighted having to drag barrels through the roadworks.