Not confirmed yet, but no hose pipe ban this year so far.

I wonder why it rains so much in Penicuik, yet when you put on the weather forecast the sun is shining "down south". Not helped when Mrs B is watching Wimbledon and cracking up at the torrential rain filling our gutters. Was going to say that the only consolation is not having to water the garden, however, not true as the baskets need hand watering.

But the sun did shine on Wednesday and I had a run out on the Steed of Steel, down to Biggar and Coulter and round the hill to Broughton and back to Biggar via Hartee.   In the valley at the South of Biggar there was a super view of a Hercules transport plane drifting along above the tree tops, but not enough time for me to get a photo.

Mercat Grill is still busy, so much so that they have already closed their bookings for X-mas Day this year!!! Full House.

Probably like many, I lost interest in Wimbledon as soon as Andy Murray and Joanne Konta were knocked out.  But have just remembered that Jamie Murray is still keeping the flag flying for the UK.

I suspect that we are now beginning to see the effects of the so called "Nanny State", with young criminals running amok as there are little or no effective punishments, time to penalise the parents for lack of control, but if smacking is also forbidden what do you do.  Old adage,  bring back the birch, will never happen but it was a deterrent. Scots Law was once admired throughout the World, but hate to say that our politicians, no doubt pressured by greedy lawyers and the EU loonies have slowly been eroding the system.

I see our FM Nicola popped over to Brussels the other morning for a brief chat to one of the EU money grabbers,  if she had a £16 contract with unlimited calls from O,2 she could have made a call and blethered for as long as she wanted!!!  Probably spent more time in Edinburgh Airport than she did with the chappie.      I was dropping Sparky Mark off in the airport on Tuesday and t was a nightmare, queues trying to get in to dro off, no charges for drop off parking as they were pushing folk out the other end as fast as possible and queues trying to get back up onto the A8,  just as well the tram is there!!!

Friend from Dalkeith had her car stolen as she slept as the intruders broke in and took her keys, just heard of another in Newtongrange who had his new BMW car stolen under similar circumstances, and yesterday afternoon, one of our delivery drivers was overtaken in High Street Musselburgh, by two hooded youths, no helmets on, riding what was probably a stolen BMW motorcycle.