Early

The view out of D's bedroom window at approx 06:00 this morning - one of those noxious shale gas tankers slipping past and three jet skis heading back to the Edinburgh side after having apparently visited the south beach of Inchcolm. The Forth never sleeps. The extra is the view immediately out of the bathroom window at the back of the cottage (they're only a metre or so distant).

I helped Iain put out the chairs for the impending wedding, whilst D wiped bird shit off the benches. Got the first available voyage back to SQ, where Old Bat met me and we went for a coffee and a wee blether at the Rail Bridge. Then I got the bus back to Embra and eventually Leith, feeling extraordinarily weather-beaten!