Well, well, well...

Up to Bruntsfield first thing, a banking transaction. 
Then to the Bus Station to book those tickets but alas the bus we wanted in our perfectly worked out timetable turned out to be fully booked, so I pushed it all forward a week. Two bus passes were required and after a phone call to Donald in which I extracted bus pass number information, it was all duly and securely fixed for the princely sum of £2.
Then to Waverley to stock up on current local bus timetables since I do believe there have been a few alterations recently (my out-of-date knowledge when I thought the No 33 still went to Dalkeith). When I'm ever near Waverley I like to pop in to Flying Tiger for a look around, which I did and came out armed with a £1 mist spray bottle for my plants. Plastic, yes I know, but it's pink. Surely pink plastic is okay?
Then up the Brae to the Mound where a bus driver was lounging against the rails and just as I was about to pass him I noticed he was half concealing a sign, which went something like 'No Stopping Here Except busses'. I am so like my dad because I just had to say 'Oi', he looked at me quizzically, I pointed to the notice and said, 'no stopping here'. Luckily he didn't think I was barmy but was kind enough to really laugh and told me he was going to 'use that one' on his work mates.

Anyway, do you know that next to the petrol pump symbol on a cars petrol gauge is an arrow?
(Theres probably loads of blippers already in the know of this).... but this is to tell you which side of the car the petrol cap is. Fancy going through life for 70+ years and not know that. What a revelation.