Battle of Waterloo

Blipped on my morning walk, while Martin was getting fit in the gym. 

In St. Michael’s kirkyard, Inveresk, lies the grave of Major William Norman Ramsay, who fought alongside Wellington, and died at the Battle of Waterloo in 1850. 

Waterloo proved a decisive battle in more than one sense. Each generation in Europe up to the outbreak of the First World War looked back at Waterloo as the turning point that dictated the course of subsequent world history, seeing it in retrospect as the event that ushered in the Conert of Europe, an era characterised by relative peace, material prosperity and technological progress.

Oh, how we seem to have not learnt, given the current situation in Europe. 

There are other Waterloo veterans buried in the kirkyard, including other people of note.

In other news, I’m keeping up my daily 10k step count, even in the rain. I think I am trying to keep it up, after reading about the continued rise of obesity linking in with a similar rise in strokes and heart attacks, particularly in young adults. Not that I’m young, but it does make you think. 

I hope you are having a good day.