And so the last day out for a while, methinks.

Because of the ineptitude of others, I get to stop doing my job which I do well enough because others aren't doing there's. So a week or two of processing enquiries beckons. Woo bloody hoo....

So out into the teeming rain of Monday; it's not often I leave the bike in the shed for working, but today was that day.

Muirhouse in the morning, Leith in the afternoon. Suitably autumnal it was. And not many in, either. It was like they knew I was coming, or something....

I dried out at home at lunchtime and then it got brighter layter (sic) and I even wandered a bit around the Water of Leith and foraged for sloes (I was early for my 4.30).

Home via a hoover pick up and then tidied a bit ahead of the parental visit before heading out to get a Cigs in the company of arclight and Alf.

A couple of pints of average Best and a very much above average blip later, I was safely tucked up in bed by 11