Times are hard.

Times are hard, or so the saying goes,  however - just take a look at the total chaos in the Philippines caused by the recent typhoon there.  With winds of 170 mph,  it makes our stormy days here sound particularly balmy !!    The locals there, thousands killed, townships flattened, are doing their best to get on with life, struggling due to lack of resources, water , etc -  but International aid is on its way, provided they ca get out the airport.

However,  I suppose everything is relative to ones surroundings,  here we are struggling to come to terms with the fact that the major Electricity Companies are once again shafting us by hiking up the prices, literally cartelling,  but will the Government or the shareholders do anything about it - doubt so.
Great article about how much Mr Salmond's wind farms are costing us to erect and at times keep switched off -  under these circumstances, perhaps it would have been better to forget about blighting Donald Trump's seaside view.

On the home front - even more dramatic events are unfolding in Glasgow -  the council caused an outcry by threatening to remove the traffic cone from the Wellington Statue,   only 75000 complaints about that so they changed their mind -  then, someone managed to get up and take the cone off !!!!!

In Edinburgh,  Hibernian Football Club were "parading" Terry Butcher and Maurice Malpas as their new managerial team today -   I thought that  horses were paraded -  not professional football managers.    They did a remarkable job at Inverness  Caley Thistle where they will be a great loss,  the Hibs fans will be hoping they can repeat this here in the City.      Just hope the players are hungry enough to learn -  and not be like the guy in the English Premier  Division who said he was too rich to have the hunger needed for the game   !!!   have said this all along, big wages do not necessarily guarantee good players.

Interesting article in tonight's Edinburgh Evening news by a journalist who is writing about the tram works and the many business who have become causalities of the tram project - and by the time the truth comes out, there will be a few more.