Updating - but under the weather

Totally exhausted, sitting here watching the European Games, where Jo Pavey ; Mo Farrar; James Dasoqulo; and our lady 100 m hurdler have all won Gold medals.   To Jo Pavey amazing and after her silver at the Commonwealth  Games , this has to be the highlight of her career - especially after she had a new baby a year ago,

To Andy Murray, plodding on to get into the final sixteen in the USA, and Rory the Golfer doing wondrous things with a wee white ball -  maybe I should have had a bit more patience years ago.

Terrible things going on around the world, the ISIS terrorists, biggest and richest terrorist group ever, who are certainly an immense threat to peace and stability in the middle east at the moment, but with their long term plans for world dominance by the Muslim state - they are recruiting fanatics on our own streets,  people who will make Alex Salmond's attempt at Independance look like  a kindergarden tantrum. Let us hope that sanity prevails and this mass slaughter of the innocents is stopped.

Documentary tonight about the first declaration of Jahid in 1914 by the muslim leaders - so the holy war we are dealing with now is not new and has a basis in recent history - much of it originating from the actions of a German archeaologist,Oppenheim.  So where are the Germans now in trying to put the current problems to right.

Immigration - someone said that all those queuing up in the camps at Calais are potential Tories if they get into the UK - do not care how many get in, we cannot afford to keep tehm - and many think that earning more than £50 a week makes them a king - so sweat shops and slave labour will flourish.

Devastaing news about the death of Robin Williams, brilliant, but who suffered from depression, the silent killer, totally misunderstood - especially by gobby loud mouths like Allan Brazil, so called sports commentator, former overpaid footballer and still overpaid by Sky TV - so perhaps I will cancel my SKY B subscription - and with enough Freeview programmes to deal with our limited viewing needs why not.

We recently had a bit of road resurfacing going on in Penicuik, took six weeks to do a couple of hundred yards - because the workers had to have their holidays - so the local residents had to make do with detours and buses were rerouted.
Passing through Musselburgh this week we have new traffic calming measures being installed along the old A1 - so we have seven men , four talking, one working and two with brushes;  now we have road resurfacing taking place in Whitecraig - just started, and having watched them in action,  I intend to dish out the Christmas menu's as these guys are likely to still be here upsetting our business ( deja vu the tram works in Edinburgh).

Giant female panda is hopefully pregnant in Edinburgh Zoo so hopefully we will have a baby soon; brilliant documentary on TV with Claire Balding who visited a panda hospital in China where they are successfullly breeding baby pandas - wonderful, so let us hold our breath for Edinburgh Zoo.

Coming weekend , BBQ at the Mercat Grill, well wortth a burnt banger of two!!

Have been well out of sorts for the past week or so since my unexpected return trip to the ERI last week,  probably a viral infection of sorts but, not amusing, and messing up my life at the moment, sooner it clears up the better.