How to Spend a Lazy Sunday in Auld Reekie

 

Check out the fresh food market a few metres from your door, and buy fresh raspberries, cauliflower and local smoked salmon.

Catch a bus to the Botanic Gardens. Compare it unfavorably with King's Park, but enjoy it anyway.

The East Gate

Now that's what I call a HEDGE. ( Beech)

The Palm Conservatory was closed for repair.

Walked home via Scotland Street.

The New Town is OK I suppose, if you have access to

THE PRIVATE GARDEN

Back along the Grassmarket the bikers were touting for business. This one had just persuaded three hefty guys into his rickshaw.

Others prefer a Taxi.

Then home to a cleaned apartment, with fresh sheets, ( Saturdays) from my landlord who spent 20 years in IT working for Hewlett Packhard, but decided he'd rather go into holiday lets, which makes him less income, but frees him from the computer screen. He told me about the beloved dog he and his actress partner rescued from Morroco, and how he hates the way donkeys are beaten there. He said that in the UK, there is evidence of workers in abattoirs goading and torturing beasts, and of a move to introduce CCTV with the hope of preventing this. He still eats meat though.

Good-night!