Dereliction

This is the part of the old Edinburgh Royal Infirmary adjoining Lauriston Place which may have housed the cardiology department, but I'm willing to stand corrected on that.

It is one of the last buildings left to be transformed in the Quartermile development in central Edinburgh, but things are beginning to happen.
Rumour has it that the University is going to resite its business school here when the building has gone its metamorphosis.

We lucky people north of Hadrian's Wall are having a balmy Easter Monday with some sunshine thrown in.
His Lordship and I chose to walk across Bruntsfield links to shop in Morningside rather than brave the waves of tourists flowing and ebbing up the Mound to the Castle and the Royal Mile.
We did adjourn for coffee but only that, now that the holiday is over, and especially since we ended the latter in style yesterday with an afternoon tea at the Sheraton Hotel. The contents of a magnificent personal tier each of sandwiches, scones and cakes slipped over with remarkable ease, but the days of reckoning have now started.