Commonwealth Games - bring them on.

Home, feet up, wine to hand and waiting to watch the opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Games coming from Glasgow. Just a bit surprised at the number of commentators who are generally based elsewhere in the UK.    Anyway,it is about to kick off, and Edinburgh is not being left out, having the diving competition here, which will be three times Edinburgh has been actively involved.

Weather is brilliant with temperatures up to around 25 c, so hot in fact that patients in the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, are complaining about the extreme heat.  Fans and additional Air Con units being brought in and the staff are waiving the checks they have for personal electrical equipment - which in reality is an excuse to stop people using their own equipment so  they have to pay extortionate prices for the in house TV and radio facilities.

Had another good ride out today, over to Duns via Longformacus and homewards through Greenlaw, Carfraemill, Crichton Castle, Gorebridge and Temple -  good to see Andy Mimms at Border Bikes again, busy as ever.

Horrendous tragedy with the shooting down by pro Russian rebels of the Malaysian flight last week - denials everywhere - especially from Russia, and all sorts of conspiracy theories.  Do we call them criminals, murderers, cannot call them animals as animals have a higher set of morals. Would not surprise me if Putin allowed a Russian plane to be shot down so that he could shift the blame away from his allies.
Could have a boycott - France are building a massive helicopter carrying warship for Russia which, although nearly commisioned is still in France -

Where have all our Polis gone !!  that might well be a common complaint during the Games as Police are drafted in from all over Scotland to help out in Glasgow - long hours, lots of complaints from the Officers involved and mainly because our commercial security companies could not do the business again, just a repeat of the Olympics fiasco.

Fiasco-   is an immigrant family claiming £55k per annum not something worth questioning - keep saying it, but we have to be the laughing stock of Europe, if not the World or Commonwealth ( the Aussies have been mega critical of Glasgow)  but - what incentive is there for folks to work hard and try to save - none, none, zilch, zero, just let the spongers rule supreme.

Never mind - it can only get better.