Resilience

Today did not go as planned. All that had to be undertaken had to be re-jigged, re-phased, deferred.

One of the main reasons was discovering that our fridge freezer had stopped displaying any signs of life (even for a cold blooded creature). Redistribution and a masterclass in repscking another freezer saved the day along with the resurrection of an old fridge.

Then the planned gardening could not be completed. the brief bit I did was lovely in the sunshine but unseasonably cold.

Then the shopping trip with mother in law had to be rescheduled and my own shopping took twice as long due to some inordinately lengthy temporary traffic lights. A trip that normally takes me 4 minutes, took 25. Each way.

Still we got through the day and ticked off most things, including making do it yourself croissants (their best before date was today so no option). - see extra.

This photo was early in the morning when I paused during an unplanned trip. It is a statue in Festival Square which for a while might have been designated as Mandela Square. According to one report the statue - which was created for Mandela Square - is the first publicly funded statue in the UK of a black woman.

Whatever the facts are it is an emotive statue which was catching the morning light. Other plans are in place now for. More formal recognition in a public place of Nelson Mandela - my blip the other month showed the recognition in the Edinburgh Council buildings.

But at the end of the day my personal travails seemed ridiculously minor in relation to the resilience displayed by Mandela.