Still Going Down - slowly.

The iPhone never lies! Second in a series.

After a week on holiday and keeping strictly to the red wine, chocolate and crisp diet, I have still managed to lose one pound, or half a kilo.

I am a happy boy!

We also went for a stroll around Corstorphine Hill and took this picture at the spot where the two heroes of Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped say there final farewells


"We came the by-way over the hill of Corstorphine; and when we got near to the place called Rest-and-be-Thankful, and looked down on Corstorphine bogs and over to the city and the castle on the hill, we both stopped, for we both knew without a word said that we had come to where our ways parted. Here he repeated to me once again what had been agreed upon between us: the address of the lawyer, the daily hour at which Alan might be found, and the signals that were to be made by any that came seeking him. Then I gave what money I had (a guinea or two of Rankeillor's) so that he should not starve in the meanwhile; and then we stood a space, and looked over at Edinburgh in silence.

"Well, good-bye," said Alan, and held out his left hand.

"Good-bye," said I, and gave the hand a little grasp, and went off down hill."