Robynn’s Day in the Sunshine

Finally, finally, I can report that Edinburgh is hot! There is hardly a breath of wind and the atmosphere feels turgid. 28°! Can you believe it? Yesterday it was 13°.
It is the kind of heat you pay big money to get on the continent or further afield; it’s the sort of heat that makes you feel the need to apply suncream; it’s the sort of heat that makes you think there is nothing nicer than to sit under the sunshade until you can endure it no longer; it’s the sort of heat that makes you escape into the house to cool down and it’s the kind of hot summer’s day you might wish for when you are young and about to graduate on a campus in the Trossachs.

#1 Granddaughter Robynn is being capped today in Stirling with a 1st class BA honours in Economics, the culmination of 4 years hard work. Although I won’t be there in person I can watch the ceremony online and I will be at the celebratory dinner tonight in Edinburgh.

His Lordship and I had an outing before the heat got into its stride and ticked a box on the bucket list we have been keeping. We had a coffee in the Caley hotel at the West End of the City. In all my years living in Edinburgh I have never been through its portals, although I once as a student got on a sleeper train from the now defunct station to which the hotel was attached. You live and learn, my motto as well as Robynn’s today.