Big boat, grey day

I slept extremely well last night. It was the first time ever that my Fitbit had awarded me a 90. I didn't really surface at all until 8.30am.

None of the promised snow, or even sleet, arrived. It was grey all day, and miserably wet for most of it, particularly from around 12 noon onwards. Pictures of a sunny Easter Ross were particularly disheartening, but we did what we had to do, given the weather forecast for next week.

We used the car to go to Ocean Terminal to fetch Mr A's prescription, and then to go to the supermarket. OT gave me a blip opportunity....of sorts. I always like a big boat. And the flour mill.

I tried to go swimming in the afternoon at Leith Victoria, but it turned out that the information on the website was incorrect and the swimming pool was being used for by the swimming club. I have now set an intention to go swimming every week whilst I'm in Edinburgh. Let me see if I can deliver on it. I have worked out the best way of doing it (using my towelling robe and getting dressed back here....that's the one thing I don't much like about the swimming pool, namely the changing rooms, and the struggles to put clothes on a damp body).

So as a result, I've not taken any exercise, but that's fine. I have, however, finished my first book of 2025, Jenny Erpenbeck, Kairos. I'm not entirely sure what I think about it. An allegory for the end of East Germany as a relationship gone toxic? The enmeshing of East Germany's Nazi past with its uncertain capitalist future? Quite a bit was familiar, which is unsurprising since it is mainly set in the period 1986-1989, and I was in East Germany in 1987 and 1988, and twice in 1989. Anyway, I think the book will stay with me for a while.

In and amongst, I booked a couple of concerts for us at the Usher Hall and proposed that we go next weekend to see the Women in Revolt! exhibition at Modern 2. I hope we will do that. I'm also hoping to see the Turners in the week. There have to be some compensations to being back in the Burgh.