Ocean Terminal, the docks and my Doc - again

Sunday morning , weather was now well on the turn with Autumn here at long last , trees discarding their leaves by the barrow load. Wwe were up through Lowries Den later in the day and the "tunnel" / the canopy of leaves is deminishing every day , so now we have the skeletol branches of the trees and sight of the open sky - soon we will be back to an open sky.

With the change of clocks, now one hour back, it really was a long lie in , but up - and away to Bonnyrigg to set up the Temple for the Chapter Meeting of Tuesday nights forthcoming installation at The laird O'Cockpen Royal Arch 500.

On the way back up the roadI saw the shepherd at Pomathorn out on the quad bike with his his three dogs rounding up the sheep - what a life - dedicated - especially in this weather.

Headed into Ocean Terminal for yet another session with the Chinese doctor and his box of needles - he was really good today - felt a real surge of heat and energyin my back while the needles were in , plus a mega deep massage and the strange "cupping" afterwards.

Out in the docks there was a bit of action as a massive ore tanker , A&E , SE, Panama was being moved from its mooring by two tugs , one being the Fidra, a fire fighting tug - named after Fidra Island off North Berwick. I could not find any reference to the tanker on the internet based on all I could see on its bow and stern, strange.

Also in the inner harbour was the SEAWELL, a massive North Sea drilling support vessel.

Home to get rattled into a couple of letters in response to the "rubbish" we have intercepted from the "Council".

Sparky arrived for tea - and we had a real moan about the farce on the TV now known as the X Factor - it is really getting silly with good acts being voted off by the ever so silly public - who are voting for individuals rather than talent.

Damper on the night was a late message from Young Tam Findlay to let us know that his father had died earlier today - our thoughts and wishes are with you and the family.

Here we have, within a family, the classic - within two weeks , a new born baby and then a death - some may well say that within nature there is some form of natural equilibrium, however we all know that this is not true with the World's population forever on the increase.