Cheeky Burst of Ragwort

My 9th blip on May 4th 2020 was a splash of ragwort. Here it is again - not the same ragwort but ragwort again.

Few photos taken today but this moment caught my eye as the sun caught it. Had bombed down to Musselburgh with my girl to pay in cash to her new bank account. Now she knows how to do it herself.

Earlier in the week she had to rearrange her athletics booking after forgetting to do it. She wanted me to speak for her, to do the arranging, but I explained it was her who had forgotten to book herself in so she had to find the fix. Luckily there was a space and she got in. Good result.

She's getting more independent every day. Still a lot of bringing up to do and the conviction yesterday of a now 20 year old (then 18) for killing Porty school girl, Mhari O'Neil https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/crime/man-jailed-for-leaving-edinburgh-schoolgirl-mhari-oneill-to-die-intoxicated-on-calton-hill-3248334, then 15 in Dec 2018, brought some gentle but firm conversations with her about safety and never, ever staying with any boy or man (indeed person) who bites you or attempts to strangle you. Get up and leave. Immediately.

I realise in this case alcohol also had a role to play. That was another part of the chat. Gosh, it was such a bitter cold night. I remember the horror of imagining her death at the time it happened knowing how that night had been.