"Unrestrained silliness"

I went into Edinburgh yesterday afternoon. I was joining friends for a performance of Michael Morpurgo's 'Private Peaceful'. The Royal Mile was a hive of festival activity, with the customary amount "unrestrained silliness" going on all over the place!

The photograph below illustrates perfectly why I love Edinburgh so much. You can always see out and beyond the city. From the top of the Royal Mile you can look across the sea to the beaches of East Lothian.

I thought the quote below more or less sums up the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. It is meant fondly of course!

Private Peaceful was played by Andy Daniel. He gave a compelling performance and the audience were with him every step of the way as he looked back on his childhood, the principal characters who featured in his young life, and then faced his ultimate fate, during the First World War. Andy Daniel was quite brilliant in a soliloquy which lasted over an hour. That's a lot of words to commit to memory!

Back on the Royal Mile the madness continued

and displays of skill, which always draw a crowd.

And later, back to the peace of the wood, and a wonderful moon glimpsed through the trees during dinner.

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In a vase on Monday - colour

The intense colours in my vase this week come from nasturtiums, sweetpeas and a single glorious zinnia! Their beauty and love of life speak for themselves and need no further words from me! Enjoy!

Early morning light

There have been some cracking early morning skies this week. The sunrise has generated a strong rose gold light which has been picked up not only in the clouds but also through the silver-white grasses around the edge of the golf course. I always marvel at the clouds. Constantly changing, formations that have never been seen before, never to be seen again.

Coastal walk from Gullane to North Berwick

By the time I have walked about four miles, my toes are screaming at me - it's the arthritis, you see. One of the joys of being that little bit older than I was. However, for a long time, I have been keen to walk along the beaches, and follow the coastal path, between Gullane and North Berwick. So, having worked out the tide times, I decided today was the day, and off we went. Below is our starting point, the bay at Gullane. It's a lovely beach, very popular with dog walkers. This is looking east, the direction Tilly and I were going to take. Looking back, up the Forth, the unmistakable bulk of Arthur's Seat, and Edinburgh's skyline, just clear enough to see. For most of the walk, there is the choice between wandering along a series of beaches, or following a path along the top of each. There's no denying it, at heart I am a shell-seeker. I have loads of shells at home. We lived on one of the out islands in the Bahamas for a just over a year, ...

the running wave

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