Welcome to beautiful Embra....

....right, who's declared war on St.Andrew Square? I'm busy fretting about the loss of Shurbhill and now the anti-concrete brigade are chopping down the old Scot Prov building. Who are these people and what have the got against modern concrete design? They'll be swinging the wrecking ball at my favourite building near Holyrood next.

A morning of plans on pages, pricing optimisation tools and printer wrestling, followed a lovely cycle-in via Roseburn with the added bonus of a dry bottom.

Nancy appears to be on the mend after 48hours staring into the contents of a basin and Owen returned to school. The roads didn't seem very much busier, so I'll draw the conclusion that Edinburgh's city centre rush hour gridlock is caused by the private school mob ferrying their balzered off-spring to the Victorian piles in over engineered off-road vehicles.