Bottle it and sell it to the south

Total chaos in parts of the city as we had a quarter of the months rainfall in three hours - cars under water, houses flooded, and lots of damage.

But, it still did not deter the diners in Mulberrywalk, seated in the muggy conditions with their brollies up as the torrential squalls passed over.

On my way from Whitecraig I attempted to drive through Dalkeith - however the ongoing works in the High Street, make the tram workers look energetic - or so I thought - but the real start turn was a diversion due to a main junction being totally blocked, which led into Tesco's Car park (handy if one required provisions to survive till the road reopened - or direct into the local cemetery - never to reappear again - even the workers did not know where the Diversion was !!!!

Into Edinburgh and then found that Palmerston Place was being dug up again by our beloved tramworkers - or should have been but the guys were sitting in their van clocking up the overtime.

The great tram drama continues - with yet another expose of how much money has been paid to lawyers, PR and spin Doctors.

NOTE - just remembered that the beautiful tapestry depicting the Battle of Prestonpans is now on display in the nearby St Mary's Cathedral.

It seems that the weather is the main topic of conversation by most of the population, and we certainly have something to talk about now - probably even flooding in the Edinburgh Canal basin where there was a gala today with barges and houseboats: T in The Park, in Fife , probably got a good drenching; the Tall ships are in Greenock for the weekend ; the Scottish Open Golf at Royal St Georges, Inverness, stopped twice due to storms - and all around the country crops being badly damaged.

HOWEVER - it is an ill divided world, with a massive appeal underway for the millions in Somalia and Kenya suffering yet another drought - strange how their politicians manage to live in splendour whilst the people suffer - and in Somalia, the pirates who maraud the oceans - taking millions in ransom money - certainly do not invest it in the welfare of their fellow men.

Another of my current gripes is a hard hitting, grating, advert on the radio by the Payment Protection Partnership - a quasi legal set up operating the usual US style No win No fee practice hitting at the banks who allegedly miss sold insurance to clients - obscene.