I missed the Library yesterday as it closed at 1pm

Do not have that much to report. The weather has cooled off and the natives are all now quite happy, but it is a bit parky for me.

Went up to Edinburgh on Tuesday afternoon/evening looking for the sessions which were listed on a the local website. To say that the webiste needs updating would be an understatement. I resigned myself to just heading back to suburbia unfullfilled and then noticed that at one of the bus stops out on the way back to Bonnyrigg that there was a notice for 'live folk music tonight' in a pub window, so quickly leaped off the bus. Scottish session music is not played at 90 miles an hour like what happens in Ire. I know what I prefer :).

I now have a harp to play thanks to Marian Sargison. It is one of the local high school student instruments so is a little battered but plays all right though. A pilgrim, it seems very small and I am reaching too far but I will get there. It is tuned in E flat and the sharpening levers are set in the opposite way to those on Roselind, however just having something to play for a week will do wonders for my composure :)

Sue has sent me some pics so I have uploaded them for your edification (haha) The first one is of me taking a photo of the pub where we had lunch, The Duck Inn. I didn't realise that Sue had taken that one. I have my own pics of the Duck Inn but you will have to wait until I get home before I bore you with them. Oh, how I will bore you all :)....








The second pic is om me and and the lady from the long boat coming through the lock. She was on a canal holiday and is from Ireland. You can see the second longboat in the canal behind the one in the lock. I will be boring you with video of all that!!















This one is at Bicester (Bisster) hopping on the bus to go to Milton Keynes where I then joined the national Express bus to Edinburgh