Pies

Today's been another "normal" working day, although I did go out at lunchtime to buy three excellent pies from the shop just visible through the trees. The stone structure is "Cowan's Well", built in 1809, presumably so that the eponymous paper-making factory's employees stayed healthy enough to work. I'm being unfair to Alexander Cowan, as he was generous with his wealth, "reglazing every window on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh, having been disturbed by the poverty he saw there" and, "In 1797 he set up a public library in Penicuik, one of the first free libraries in Britain." When he died, he left money for the red stone town institute to be built further up the street.

Oh, and there are some trees with beautiful, new, green leaves!