A day of being on the ball; with school to get to, packed lunches to - er pack, and then straight on a bike from school to dander about and do some work; the ever depressing Mr McD of G****** S*****; an annual fixture that somehow I seem to get the short straw for every year. 

Before hammering off around greater Leith, greater Abbeyhill and the not so great Gorgie. Stabbings, vagrants being attended to by ambulance crews and road works - all in evidence. 

And then to more serene Comely Bank (it has a Waitrose, you know) before returning home to write stuff up. 

A sharp finish; to fetch her from work. As G is at Benmore, we're trialing being a normal couple; ha! So we ate and watched TV and generally chatted until we fell asleep; no shouts of 'muuuum' or 'daaaaaad' interspersed the evening. Wow.