Reminder of the origins

I Thought it might be nice to remind readers of why the blog is called what it is !!! Here is a photo( times 2) of our original hero, Bluey the budgie, in his prime before he escaped and was probably murdered and eaten by the neighbours cat.

Couple of nature shots to remind me of the summer, a wee butterfly in the garden, and a resting dog which I saw in South Queensferry.

Today, Thursday it was yet another early rise for another shift (on my day off of course) in The Mercat, so that is two in a row - and of course it is back tomorrow when it will be the first session of the x-mas special lunches. And numbers are increasing for x-mas day so that should be fun - hopefully we may have Santa and his helpers on site.

No tram works today, so it was a quiet start again, but, but, not for long before the men came along with the heated guns to blast the road markings off the road, causing massive clouds of grey smoke which seeped into all the premises nearby. I think that things were not as bad as they could have been as the rain kept the smoke down. Our poor painter who was working outside thought the world was coming to an end.