It's over, it's over ....

Another beautiful day and a morning out on the streets, for my last shift.  The mood had changed.  There was a sense of purpose and people coming out of a dream and returning to normal.  But there were still folk arriving, still folk looking for shows and info on the Fireworks.

Came home to sit in the garden, give the grass another run over and commune with the young fox who is back.  No fear!  It was still very warm, about 23, 24 degrees and almost as sunny as yesterday. 

I was supposed to go to the FCV Firework picnic but I was just too tired and thought of more crowds and trying to get home deterred me.  I was in bed by 9 and got up to listen to the concert and take (bad) photos of the pyrotechnics.  Unfortunately the trees at the top of Liberton Brae always block a full view of the Festival Fireworks, but I heard the bangs.

For the record here is my 2019 Festival:

Edinburgh Arts Festival
St Bernard's Well

Edinburgh Military Tattoo

Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Basil Brush
Drunk Women Solve Crime
NewsRevue
Iain Dale All Talk - John McDonnell
Iain Dale All Talk - Alan Johnston
Austentatious
Will Gompertz Art History 2
Rev Richard Coles - a Country Parson

Edinburgh International Festival
Peter Gynt
Glorious Percussion and Peer Gynt
Red Dust Road
Artemis Trio and friends (concert on BBC Sounds)
Hard to be Soft - a Belfast Prayer
Orchestre de Paris 1 - Beethoven and Berlioz
Orchestre de Paris 2 - Britten

Edinburgh International Book Festival
Discussion on Homelessness - Val McDermid
Discussion on Digital lives and politics
Edinburgh, the smart city - Murray Pittock
Kenneth Calman
Crime and Gin Tasting
Recording of Open Book - Mariella Frostrup (on BBC Sounds)

BBC
Recording of Front Row
Recording of Talking Books (BBC World) Jing-Jing Lee

Festival Fireworks - from my bedroom window.

It's been a very busy almost 4 weeks but great fun.  However, fitting in real life (dentist, College, MOT, seeing friends) has been a challenge and of course no housework, shopping or gardening has been done. No wonder I'm exhausted.

And tomorrow it is back to normal, the visitors go, the temporary structures come down and I have to pick up all the things I was doing before August and start really planning December onwards.  Happy days!