The day the earth moved in West Maitland Street

Certainly not so bored today - kept on the go as I had to tip up for work this morning. Nice morning so I took the bike and parked round the corner, first thing I saw was the Traminator poster over the road, which is one of the series the boys are doing about the antics of TIE and the tram works or lack of works. In fact the bookies are now offering odds of 3 / 1 that the works will never be completed by the City of Edinburgh Council who might well have run out of funds for the project as the overspend is so big. TIE are doing no one an favours.
just think, we will have tourists coming to see the the tram lines that go no where along Princes Street , unless of course they put trams on Princes Street alone as a novelty !! a bloody expensive novelty.


So, next observation was mass of new barriers, holes outside the pub, etc., what was going on ? Turns out it was the turn of the Gas people to start digging, that makes three times the same bit of road has been dug up - I am thinking that the men are practicing digging holes for some kind of competition - speed digging, or how many men can you get in a hole. It is like that question you used to get in maths, if one man takes one hour to dig a hole , how long would it take three men to dig that hole ?

I have, for a long time taken an interest in earthquakes around the world, and on a daily basis check out one of the websites. As most are aware there have been a number of quakes and aftershocks in Southern California and Baja Mexico, today there were ten in Southern California and even more in the Baja area. To get on with the story we had two customers in for breakfast, here at the Conference Centre for a Convention of Librarians !! an they were from California and were talking about all the shaking going on.

At the same time Jim Hannah and RGB headed downstairs and came calling on me reporting a 2.5 earthquake !!!! so down in the office I found rubble and debris all over. At first I thought it was the work of the big hammer digger, but then worked out that it had been the four men in the hole, pulling out old gas pipes and dislodging the stonework in our ceiling - so now something else for them to repair.

Busy at lunch time - and now we have the "49 Club" in for their dinner and wine meeting on Thursday, and of course the next wine club "doo" is on the 22nd - another good night in the offing.

Next - I see that Gordon Brown in his Labour Manifesto, has promised to bring 100,000 new jobs in Scotland - why has taken this Election for them to come away with this proposal - bit of a loser !!! And it does not help when the three MP's accused of fiddling their expenses have now been granted legal aid - whole thing is farce, and getting worse.

On the other hand the Conservatives are taking heed of public opinion and are suggesting that a limit be placed on the number of immigrants we accept every year. Our Kirsty was saying that in her daughter's school in Edinburgh there are now 19 different languages being spoken !!! Nuff said tonight.