Cuddly

The diet starts tomorrow........ or not, depending on the way the wind blows.

It's hard not to indulge in naughty carbohydrates, and heaven forbid some holiday chocolates, when Edinburgh is wrapped in a clingfilm of rain and the sky is a uniform cheerless grey.
With no wind today, at least the rain is vertical, but still wetting and discouraging of any form of outdoor activity. However we consider ourselves lucky not to live beside the sea or a river and perforce have to be paddling through the streets in an inflatable. Everything is relative.

The Christmas tree was to be taken down this afternoon, but as it acts as a small beacon of cheerfulness in the gloom, it has been given a reprieve until tomorrow.