Great Expectations and greater thieves

The second session of the Blawbag winds have been and gone , leaving behind a fair bit of destruction in its wake. Nearest of any claim was in Bonnyrigg when the main road was closed off by a very large fallen tree which caused all traffic to be diverted via Golf Course Road.
BUT bigger fool was the lorry driver who ignored the warning signs on the Forth Road Bridge prohibiting anything other than cars - his trailer was blown over and they had to close the bridge to all traffic to examine the surface for damage - he will have plenty time to think about his actions on the way to the Job Centre !!!

Watching "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens at the moment - which is coincidental as there was a piece in the Edinburgh Evening News about him recently - Dickens was a regular visitor to Edinburgh, very popular and well respected and I think it was about 1841 when he was given the Freedom of the City.

I see that the local Councillors application for a 16% pay rise has been frozen again - I have always said that no one took that job for the good of their health, or out of the goodness of their hearts - so £16K, plus all their expenses and perks is better than nothing.

Obviously I still harangue the Bankers for our troubles, but it is time this latest band of money grabbers, the Moneylenders who advertise on the TV with rates from 1500% to 3000% PA, were sorted out - they borrow money from the Banks at less than they charge their clients and make a fine living out of it.

Petty criminals apparently cannot hold a candle to our entrepreneurial business men who are continually dreaming up new scams. I thought our friends in Kenya and elsewhere in the African continent were trying hard but seventeen skippers of fishing boats in Shetland have just been captured having run a scam which netted £47.5 million !!! Greed, plain unadulterated greed.

More mundane, back to The Dolphin tomorrow as we steady ourselves for the New Year, but we are off to the Playhouse Theatre in the evening to see "We Shall Rock You" the tribute to the great Freddy Mercury and Queen.