Now Mr H. was this worth waiting for ?

So far today, no haggis !!  and on Burn's day of all days -  never mind, I will have the traditional haggis, neeps and tatties tomorrow with a wee dram, antibiotics permitting, at the Merat Bar.   BUT the group I met with yesterday in Dumfries were having their haggis, plus Iron Bru last night.
Well done Andy Murray, making it through to the Melbourne Finals, a bit of cheer and an excuse to keep us in front of the fire to keep warm - we will leave the snow to melt on its own when the projected heat wave!!! arrives.
A very good item on BBC tonight about Robert Burns, with a number of snippets by John Cairney which brought back memories of when he did a one man show at Kirkhill Golf Club, Cambuslang,  many years ago - outstanding, and a man whose live was taken over by this magnificent persona.

The old saying,  anything you can do, we can do better -  ????  so how does the latest talk of a tripple dip recession fit in here - sounds like a jolly large ice cream.  Despite the latest claims that the dreaded fences round the tramworks might be removed much sooner than was expected - no one is holding their breaths any more - they speak with forked tongues - and apart from lining the contractors pockets - there is no light on the horizon - and no thanks to the landlords who have have continued to pressure their tenants.

Never mind, Mr Fishy Salmond and his cohorts are covering our country with wind farms; advocating that the Irish do the same - especially in the windless regions of their country -  I wonder when someone will decide that a new nuclear power station is the most practicable solution -  probably when we are freezing in a windless winter and cannot afford the French produced electricity owned by Spanish companies - whose populace is 25% unemployed.  I wonder how many fires the £15 m payoff to Ian Marchant, former incompetent head of Scottish & Southern Energy would fuel?
But I heard Nicola Sturgeon repeating how we would manage with the oil revenue - it will help to fund the next flood of immigrants from Eastern Europe who are about to descend on  our local benefits offices.  I need to find our where I can get a batch  of the "Big Issue" and get myself a site in the town provided the current batch of "homeless" move on.
Not sure what the Border Agency are going to do with the latest batch of 16000 immigration applications, found in some dusty cupboard - keep them till Halloween and fling them onto the bonfire with the rest .   I do not think that the USA immigration would have let a fraction of this number stay longer than twenty four hours, and with the latest news from Libya, all that is needed is a dictate for all western foreigners to get on their bikes and head for home.

Pleased to see that despite two officers from L & B police letting the side down by accepting a tale from two men with a stolen canoe who claimed that they were going sledging, their colleagues have done a bit better and arrested two "chappies" from Leicester who had the nerve to come to Edinburgh and  carry out the biggest jewel robbery ever in Scotland last week.
So despite this doom and gloom,  where my washing machine has been dispatched to the great recycling centre in the sky, think of poor Pudsey the dog, star of Britain's Got talent,  he is to be made a mega star in Hollywood, so there is JUSTICE IN THIS WORLD -  just hope any Aliens passing earth in their eco UFO's find it as funny as us.