Haymarket again - chancers and incompetents

Feet up in front of the TV and feeling a bit cranky and in need of a good gripe !! So, as i was heading off from the Mercat I took a couple of photos of the "bloody" tram works - and this is before they even lay a bit of track. Yesterday's rockery has been moved about a bit, and I could see from the debris that it was all infill put into the ground by Carillon, and now being dug out again by this new lot. We keep getting notes from TIE to say what is happening, and the big foreman now avoids me like the plague rather than try and explain what is happening.

Headed out to Loanhead on the big red Lothian Bus to uplift the car which has been repaired, only took two days and would apparently be costing the third party Insurance Company a mere £1100 + !!!!! What a rip off, the minute the garage see an Insurance Policy number being quoted the prices go through the roof, Albeit the repair is first class the car would not even start when I got into it - needed a power pack to jump start it.

Even found a used wrap below the car in the car park - looked like heroin - not a good sign.

Took the scenic route home and although the photo is not very clear, it looks like a UFO, but is one of two para gliders up in the Pentland Hillls above the Hillend ski slope - it is a great pity that the place is losing money and Midlothian Council are dragging their heels over an external rescue package. BUT with the experience we are having with Local Authorities - this is nothing new. I have been trying to speak to one enforcer in Midlothian for over a year with no luck. AND Our ongoing situation with Edinburgh City Council is now into month fifty six, and despite the fact those involved were incompetent, out of order, and who would in private industry been fired out the doors, some of those responsible in the council are wriggling like Sparky's worms on a rod, delaying left right and centre and probably playing for time in order to get a good redundancy package before they get found out. We have now had ten months of delaying tactics to avoid matters being presented to the elected representatives.

It would drive you to drink - and perhaps make one swear.