Edinburgh , heading into the Summer.

Bank Holiday weekend in Edinburgh, things are hotting up the summer approaches - or should it be here already? Hundreds of visitors in the town and as usual many groups here on stag and hen weekends. Some are more colourful and imaginative than others, and today's group at Waterloo Place, outside Registry House, were well presented as an American Football team, along with their own pigtailed ra ra girl. Our intrepid shopper/ sorry photographer, working her way from bargain to bargain.

Onwards till it was time for a rest so the Standing order beckoned once more, the Big pole dancer was on duty and as they say, no show without punch, so the family appeared, not that Austen was interested in anything other than his "drink" !!

Changes this week with the new J D Wetherspoon pub opening in George Street on Friday 5th June, formerly the Ivory lounge and being reopened as "The Alexander Graham Bell", in memory of the inventor of the telephone who lived nearby.

The Edinburgh Rugby Sevens are on at Murrayfield all weekend so the Mercat Bar has been busy with rugby supporters - and with so much sport, i.e. Roland Garos tennis, motor racing Grand prix from Istanbul, rugby, on the TV we have a few "birling heids" in the house.

So, with June on our doorstep, things are looking up - the town should be a lively place and well worth a visit.