Sunday p.m. and todays good news is that Nicole Cooke from Wales managed to hit Gold on her road race at the Olympic Games, brilliant - pity I had not heard earlier when a group of welsh visityors were laving from the flat next to the pub to head home - it would have given them something to cheer about on their way south.
The road race was from Bejing out the city and up to the foothills at The Great Wall of China, a road we travelled in June 2007 when on holiday over there. Rightly it is very flat at the start but as Nicolle said, it got a bit steep at one point and they had two thirty minute climbs to do . Well done.
The British ladies archery team just missed out on a bronze - pity , but well done all the same.
We saw the stadium last year while it was under construction - with hundreds of workers swarming all around it and on top of it - and the work being done on the approach roads into the City was amazing - a beautiful city, just a shame that the smog spoils many wonderful sights.
Saturday , The Mercat Bar was chocca block all day , but today (Sunday) nice and steady , again with customers waiting at 7.17 a.m. to get fed, next we had a couple from Vancouver, and then the upside down people arrived - a good crowd with three different groups from Oz on site - one team from Melbourne - so at least with our past knowledge from Rob and Caitlin we could communicate with them !!! One lad was not sure about "Black pudding" but I said that if he could eat kangaroo or coala bears he would be fine. To ROB and Caitlin - apologies from Grahm who failed to return your call the other day - just got a bit hectic.
Had a couple of business people in who were from a publishing firm and were involved in the Book Festival which opened today in Charlotte Square ( sadly not the Ian Rankine or J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter stories).
The weather has been really weird, yesterday it rained all day - today we have bright warm sunshine one minute and the next it it throwing it down for a few minutes - just enough to get fair drookit.
Couple of photos from Friday , one of the Scott Monument taken from the bottom of the Playfair Steps, the other of the crest outside the Merchant's Hall in Hanover Street. The hall is beautiful inside and is currently being used as a venue for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe show.
Sparky Mark has arrived to see how we are fairing with all this work - turn out he claims to have an alibi for all the recent floods in the area, and is going to give me some more lessons on "chilling out". Unfortunatley no rest for the wicked as I am in again for the next couple of days.
Next Saturday , long day with the K.T.'s as we have a church service at Temple Church ( formerly Ballentraddoch) then down to Dalkeith for the regular meeting of King David of Ballentraddoch where two of our friends are the candidates.
Meant to say that I had a comment from "King Cupid" regarding a visor camera !!! not sure what he means.
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