Bydand

Finally the sun and heat have arrived in Edinburgh;wall to wall cerulean blue sky with not one wisp of mist to dilute the sun’s rays. It helps that the ever present east wind was not rattling its cage today. What a difference to yesterday when the haar stuck around all day making everything cold, damp and miserable.

And so to this afternoon and the dedication of the plaque to Allan Ker of the Gordon Highlanders who was born in a house across the road from our old castle and who won a VC in WW1.
The high heid yins from the City and the Gordon Highlander’s Edinburgh Association were all present -the Lord Provost, some bemedalled Veterans, a bugler and a piper, both from 4th Scots, and several press cameras.
His Lordship kept a low profile being of a retiring disposition, but he did agree to be blipped with the piper and bugler.

Tea, coffee and cakes were provided by the house owner in her shady garden which harbours the lime tree in which sat the dove that bespattered HL’s jacket last week. It didn’t call today.