Edinburgh

the Braid Hills indicator . Always a nostalgic return visit here. GSR and his good friend John Bartholomew were responsible for this. A wonderful legacy to the people of Edinburgh.

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Likewise this seat at Hillend. The original recently deteriorated so badly , it had to be replaced. Fortunately at the expense of Edinburgh Council . The last to get in under the wire under new budgetary constraints and regulations. Well done Jean for pressing to conclusion.

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with sisters Barbara and Rosalind outside National Portrait Gallery , Edinburgh

M , Johannes and Jane outside the quaint little one bedroom flat we rented from Sharon and Tony Martin in Stockbridge. Bicycles , kindly transported by J & J from Braemar, were all we required. With the appalling traffic problems in Edinburgh, the ideal transport mode.

Highlights were meeting up with many old friends including this game of gold at Muirfield with Ian Ballantine, Mike Macintosh Reid and Stu Briggs.

Highlight also a day biking with John & Jane to Dalmany, dinner with Keith and Fiona Griffiths, dinner with Barbara and Bill and catching up with many old pals.

Thanks Clarissa for setting up this lovely flat for us in Stockbridge - not to be confused with this very much grander Butters' flat at 30 Moray Place above where once again John and Jane entertained us .

Thanks too to Mary's Balerno HS teaching friend John McIver who couldn't have been kinder to us.

We had a day cycling round West Lothian including a ride up the hill from Linlithgow to our old home at Parkley Craigs - oh dear ! - attended the 11 service at St Michael's , invited back to sing in the choir with Ian Scott et al ( they were incredibly generous in presenting us with a check for the Fox Parkinsons Research Foundation - hugely appreciated ), visit to the Grants and the Crebers and a delightful west wind assisted ride back to Edinburgh. Could have done with more of that in North Dakota.