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.

Flew up to Edinburgh from Birmingham.  Good day in Edinburgh.  I did little in the evening.  I had to work for another customer, so spent my time dialled up at hotel phone rates.  Ate in the hotel restaurant, chose the tuna. They love to serve it raw. Cooking it means to place the tuna on top of a hot vegetable.

Sunny all day. First started work on the spare room, moved the power sockets and removed the radiator in preparation for the dry-lining, due to start on Tuesday.  Also filled the gap between the window frame and the wall with expanding foam. Caused a little grief to Rosemary. She thought I had not prepared adequately. The foam would not stop coming out of the nozzle and it has to be admitted, it went everywhere.

Mowed the lawn and the borders of the field.  Then spent the rest of the afternoon sorting out the wood shed.

Back to work today, a shock to the system. Ate a curry at Zest. Tried to keep the quantities down by not eating rice. Good meal though. Met up with Ed Aldridge after the meal, and visited the Stand, where we can some standby tickets to see two hours of ablib stand up comedy by Andy Parsons and another Scottish comedian. They were commenting on all the events of the world, and took turns. First I heard of the Asians being thrown off the flight from Malaga. That is how topical their show was.