It's a braw, brict nict och the noo

Or some such nonsense. It is Autumn for real with daylight saving this last weekend and a very cold snap to accompany it. It put us off visiting the Falkirk Wheel so that'll give me something to write about in a week or two.

Work goes on as usual, although we have finished the first of the four phases of our project and are into the second which if anything, is even more boring. Again they don't seem fully prepared for us...

J is suffering the attendance of The Auditors at her work, and it would seem likely they won't be impressed. The company's accounting seems to be totally disastrous, so I wouldn't be investing in them in any hurry. But who's got money to invest these days anyway? Have a look here for an indication of the Scottish job market. Scary. And England isn't any better!

We went to badminton again tonight. I was total crap. Sometimes you just can't see the shuttlecock to hit it, and that was tonight all over. Still, it's a good runaround.

This morning I walked up the alleyway to catch my bus and found myself walking through the middle of a fire cordon! A run-down cinema/snooker hall near us had recently been bought and was being refurbished. Sometime on Sunday night it caught fire and when I came through at 7:15 there was water, fire hoses, smell, firemen and women, policemen and women, etc, everywhere. J and I had slept through the whole thing. The buses were diverted so I was late, then my Ridacard (renewable electronic bus pass) had run out of credit so I had to scrabble for change and finally they had no newspapers on board to keep me diverted. Mind you, last Monday was even worse as I managed to break my Ridacard in half and leave both my ID and entry key tag thing at home...

We went to Tropic Thunder a couple of weeks ago, which was actually OK. Good for a few laughs anyway. We might go to another tomorrow night - Ricky Gervais is in a new one that has had a good write-up, or the Coen brothers have a new one out as well.

Nothing much else has happened. I think my next article will be on a Commando raid in December 1943, so I'll have to start digging into the archives again for that. I was looking at getting down to London while J is away (Italy's weather wasn't looking good for photography so I've decided against going there) but in the end the accommodation ends up being a bit of a killer so I'll take a staycation instead and visit some of the Scottish archives if possible.

Another week

We had a nice night out on Thursday - plenty of good humour and good company. It was to celebrate one of the project team leaving - or 'escaping' as we prefer to call it. Our decision to leave was probably a timely one as I had just done the upside down pint trick which the victim had responded to by picking the glass up.

We went out again the next night but nobody else turned up. We got a call later when the first people arrived 2 hours after the supposed start time. The organiser didn't arrive until 2 1/2 hours after he had stated! This is the same guy who owes me L5 for a bet he lost and won't pay up. Lucky for him he graduated this week so I can't give him too much stick.

Today LH arrived to spend a few days with us in Edinburgh. We went for a stroll to show her the neighbourhood, and tomorrow will go see Edinburgh Castle and a little of the old town. It's nice to see her and catch up with some goss from home as well.

Little else has changed so this is a short one. Look at the pics instead. 8-)

Oh, W and I have started another game, and this one is looking bad for me so far. There's a pattern emerging here don't you think?