Crossed both fingers and toas, no rain today

Great rejoicing as I managed to get the grass cut this evening,  and, even managed a one hundred mile run out on the "Time Machine" today, down the A1 to Duns where I popped in to see Andy at Border Bikes, said hello to the "Steed of Steel",  and then back over the moors via Longformacus , Gifford, and Gorebridge.

Man who has hit the headlines, American Dentist Walter Palmer, has become a household name worldwide having taken himself off to Africa to go game hunting,  linked up with a couple of poachers and lured "Cecil", a lion being studied by Oxford University off the reserve and then shot and skinned it. Massive uproar about the incident, not helped by the fact that he had already caught having killed a bear in the USA.    I am sure that somewhere along the line he will get his "come uppers".

Watching "Police Interceptors"  on the TV, filmed in Yorkshire, very interesting, especially seeing how quickly the Police were responding to incidents.  Staff taking part in the programme seem to be very enthusiastic and well motivated. Wrong to suggest that they are better than Police Scotland, however with the recent adverse publicity it does raise some questions as to the effectiveness of this one massive Force.   
No excuses for the mistakes which were made regarding the recent fatal accident at Stirling,    however, thinking back to my early years in the Police, it was standard procedure to prosecute any driver who had lost control of their vehicle and been involved in an accident.  The Road Traffic Act decreed that you had to be in control of your vehicle at all times, so speeding, losing control and crashing would be an offence.   Nowadays, the majority of accidents are left for the Insurance companies to resolve.