Leith Makers

A fairly quiet recovery Saturday.

Leith is fully in the grip of the 'makers'. Just today, there was something on at Out of the Blue Drill Hall (in fairness, that's been going on a regular basis since we arrived in Leith), at the Customs House, and also in the recently opened "Leith Makers", towards the bottom of the Walk. We went to the market (which was full of makers' stalls) for baked goods, and managed to escape having only bought a small Christmas cactus from Hilda's Houseplants (and Houseplant Hospital - based on Ferry Road), another sign of Leith's hipsterisation. Ooh, and I've forgotten about a botanical rum....

Two things can presumably be simultaneously true. The UK is in the grip of a cost of living crisis seeing us going back to Victorian levels of wealth division, with "more than 13 million people leading lives blighted by poverty, broken families, poor housing and chronic ill health" (neatwithice makes a fair point below about what are the drivers of this divide...) and at the same time those whose lives remain relatively comfortable seek different forms of consumer gratification of a more "authentic" type. 

Apart from that, it was a quiet day. I read the papers, had a nap, and ate baked goods. In the evening, I popped along to the hazelh party for a brief period, whilst Mr A returned to his computer and finished a draft of his next assignment.