Celandine

I've always been fond of celandines, we didn't really have buttercups in the woods at home when I was a child (about a mile from where we live now I haven't moved far in my life). I used to make, to my eyes at any rate, beautiful posies of them. The contrast of the bright flowers and the shiny green of the leaves always appealed to me. Not sure how impressed my parents were when I planted them in ' my ' little garden plot. Then of course there is goose grass, or sticky-willy, as my sisters and I used to call it as we chased through the woods with handfuls of it trying to stick it on each others backs! The hard little balls were almost impossible to get out of our woollen jumpers I remember. So many memories in one small clump of ground.
A busy day today. This morning I had to go to Calton Road so walked down the newly reopened Jacobs Ladder steps from Regent Road. Considering how long they were closed for, I was very disappointed to see that one of the steps has broken already. I don't think the standard of repair can have been very good. On my way back I walked up the steep path rather than the steps... does it have a name too? C remembers charging down the path and the steps from the Royal High along with his class as they went to their playing fields in Holyrood Park . ...I carried on and walked along Regent Road to Princes Street, down Frederick Street and through Stockbridge to home - having met up with C in Stockbridge.
S finally got the keys to her house this afternoon so we went to check it out with her, exciting times but she'll be moving out soon and we'll miss her. I went from there to Ikea to kill an hour or so drinking free cups of coffee and reading my book in the cafe before going to Penicuik to give a talk about India - which was well received.
I finally got home via As at about 9.30.
15687 steps today, 2/2 achieved