Its Thursday, and I am about to fly back home.  Short week as Rosemary and I are off to Cambridge next weekend. Spent the four days here in Edinburgh, staying at my favourite hotel the Radisson.  They gave me a bottle of malt, and a glass to go with it. Well miniature.

The week was a mixture of rain, and wind, followed by unseasonable hot weather today.  Not particularly sunny, but very very warm.

Been keeping a low profile this week.  Ate at the Ichycoo bar a couple of times, had scallops one night and salmon on Thursday.  One small outing down to the Mai Thai where I had an excellent meal of Thai fish curry and some vegetables.  White there I picked up a card of the artist who who paints their pictures which decorate the bar.  Rosemary was impressed by them.  Well I thought I had the card, seem to have mislaid it.  Will have to email the restaurant.

Today I left early for the airport, wanted a stress free boarding.  Of course today there were no traffic holdups, check in was fast.  No queues at the security, and the plane is 45 minutes late.  Oh well.

Back home after another week in Edinburgh.  Been quite a hard week, working long hours system testing the new release.

 Stayed on the Grassmarket in the Apex International, so ate in the Grassmarket resturants.  Ate twice at the Petit Paris, always missing the happy hour meals.  Both times I ate outside on the pavement, watching the world pass by.  On the final night ate a very nice Sea Bream at the Mussel and Steak, followed by a very melt in the mouth chocolate tort.

 Travel back, was fraught.  I managed to catch the plane at Edinburgh, but BMI Babyhas got to get its check in faster.  The queues was long, and slow moving.  Edinburgh has also got to sort its security out.  They don’t manage their queues at all there.  All the other airports I have flown from always actively manage the queues, bringing passengers forward where their flights are about to leave.  Several passengers had their baggage unloaded from the Birmingham flight because they were British and queued for security, while I just walked past the queue to the head.

 Ann and Mike are staying this week end and we are off to Bicester Village.

I had a few problems recently with my old Blog.  So I have upgraded the blog to this new software version with loads of new features.

It will take a little while to get to grips with the new features, and a little while before I get back some of the missing postings.

I hope you won’t get emails with the spurious odd characters you were getting with the old version.