Very appropriate, the saying "The pen is mightier than the sword", add to that

"The pen is more scathing than the tongue" and in the hands of an eejit can be totally destructive.
Might wonder what I am on about, but it has taken me since Sunday to calm down after a negative article was penned about the Mercat Grill.  We have spent over four years building up a good reputation, training staff, producing good food, really trying hard every day, and one person, wielding his pen has upset the apple cart, so to speak, destroying morale , reputation, and to make matters worse passed a comment which was totally wrong (a big fat porky).
I have been doing items on Trip Advisor for years and have never once been totally scathing, there is such a thing as constructive criticism .

Just listening to the radio this morning about the chaos around Hillend, Loanhead, Penicuik, area, with queues from Flotterstome on the A702 taking thirty to forty minutes to get through new roadworks near to the Ski Slope.
This reminded me of a time when the late Councillor Marjorie Noble , who was a frequent visitor to Loanhead Police Station, came in one day, about 1967/1969, and spoke to us about the plans to transform Hillend junction - still waiting, no changes made so far,  well done Midlothian and Scottish Highways, forty plus years of inactivity sounds about right.
There were proposals to build a dual carriageway from Milton Bridge into Straiton, which brought about the green activists who formed what is still a permanent camp in the Bilston Woods, so it was scrapped.  lOoking at the current developments planned for the area,  not a good decision.

Keep returning to the so called Freedom of Information Act,  I have never seen a response yet as o why Alex Salmond spent a wee fortune on hospitality , good hotel, for him and his missus when he was in New York several years ago.  He has kept fobbing off the numerous requests.

Following the massive sales fraud perpetrated by VW cars and the diesel emissions two years ago, and the many comments about the harm caused by diesel emissions our beloved Chancellor might well be adding new fuel charges today.    Talk about stealth taxes,  daylight robbery, etc, the mafia and drugs cartels need to take lessons from these politicians.