Going Nowhere

Yes, once more defying my progeny's advice to avoid swan blips ( possibly because he thought I wasn't good enough a photographer to get detail in the feathers), I have bitten the bullet and posted a swan blip, albeit one carved in stone and unlikely to go anywhere.

We visited the Gosford cafe and then had a wonderful slosh through glaur and rotting leaves in the grounds of the Gosford estate, home of the Earl of Wemyss and March.
It encompasses a huge area on the shore near Longniddry and has been the subject of several postings from the Edinburgh blippers.
With lochans, a walled garden, an ice house and a mausoleum to see, we spent a happy hour sloshing and clicking around the many paths.

Home to prepare a stew for myself of beef olive stuffed with wild boar and apple. It smells so delicious that I feel a teeny bit sorry that His vegetarian Lordship can't share it with me.

This small comment in the paper this morning by Prof Duncan Macmillan, Emeritus Prof in the Fine Art department of Edinburgh University, made us both chuckle.
He reports on the reaction of Kate and Prince William on seeing her new portrait unveiled yesterday.
"She thinks it's amazing and brilliant. Her husband thinks it's brilliant too.
They share such an eloquent critical vocabulary, you can tell they studied art history at St Andrews."