The 300th

I'm not usually the type of person that is a completer finisher - I usually come up with great ideas and then as I grow bored of them I prefer to let somebody else do the finishing bit and I move on to the next thought in my head. I am therefore surprised that I have come this far in the daily blip challenge and reached the milestone of publishing a photo a day for 300 days (albeit today is actually day 301 if the blip thought police hadn't banned a certain that my regular followers will remember and I have consistently refused to replace it on the basis that it doesn't show anything other than a girls back, right buttock and legs, please @blipfoto reconsider and let the numbering recommence as it should).

To honour the 300th I have been thinking what link can I create in the photo and this is what I have come up with. David Hume is recognised as Scotland's greatest philosopher, a historian, and an economist who went on to influence Adam Smith from across the water in Fife. His field of philosophy was based on skepticism and it is alleged that he was a member of the Edinburgh Secret Society that met in the 18th Century to discuss topics that the society believed were not in the best interests of the public to be divulged and should therefore only be discussed in private meetings where no minutes or records were taken - The King Cannot Be Saved, The King Cannot Make Custard.

So what is the link to 300? This is the 300th anniversary of the birth of David Hume and despite my potted history of this great thinker and visionary most people in Edinburgh will recognise David Hume for one thing and one thing only - his big right toe! His bronze statue sits outside the Edinburgh High Court and it has become a custom for the accused to run their hands over said toe as good luck before they enter the courts. David Hume, if his skepticism of the church and god is entirely wrong must be looking down and thinking "well my life was worthwhile!"