Wanton vandalim and arguments.

Apologies, but I had a couple of quiet days, a wee bit tired and just not up to my usual self, however, after a good nights sleep, signs of a recovery and not quite as sore as I was I am up for something today.

Managed to sit and watch Andy Murray yesterday morning doing his best out in Melbourne, good one Andy, all he has to now is hammer his next four opponents.

So the Scottish Tansport Minister put it nicely into perspective yesterday - there was a big debate about the continuing need to upgrade the A9 from Perth to Inverness to dual carriageway all the way to curtail the continuing carnage. His comment was "we need at least £500m, about the same amount of money as the City of Edinburgh Council has wasted on the trams project " ouch !

Some bad vandalism in Edinburgh over the past days with the sports pavilion at Sighthill being destroyed by fire, mindless, and a good, well used public resourse possibly lost for ever- more interestingly was the attack on the yard where several cleansing trucks being used by private contractors to assist in the big rubbish clean up in the City were wrecked. Two men were disturbed by security and made off. In view of the ongoing long running dispute between the Edinburgh City Council and members of their cleansing department, I would put a couple of quid on the culprits being disgruntled employees - just the same as we had during the miners strike when the strike breakers were targeted as scabs, etc.
Not sure what the dispute is about now, perhaps - how many can we get in the cab so they can take it in turns to sleep during the shift !!!
The Mercat Bar, in line with all commercial businesses in the City pay a great deal of money to have their rubbish lifted every day, and when it is not lifted the Environmental Wardens are not far behind to check the bags and issue warning tickets - just think, a nice double whammy, pay the Council to lift the rubbish , their teams do not lift it, then you get fined by the Council !! they are in a win win situation.
Having said that, the contradiction being that Mrs B met our bucket men yesterday morning and they were really good, emptied everthing in sight to get the backlog cleared - well done Midlothian Council.

Waiting for the nurse so a break is in orders.