From the Inside Looking Out -

- to misquote the song, "That's What Friends Are For" from my favourite film, "Jungle Book."

For Midlothian's Doors Open day we wandered down to Collegehill House, formerly the Roslin Inn, which predates the Original Roslin Inn by a hundred years or more – having been built in 1660 (six years before the Great Fire of London and the Great Plague of London).         

Many famous people: artists, poets and authors have stayed here, and there seems to have been a tradition for carving their autographs on the windows with diamond tings. The window with Rabbie Burns' signature on it suffered an accident a handful of years ago – allegedly being broken and the pieces thrown in the bin. Nothing was ever proved, but a careful watch on Ebay was maintained for a while in case said piece of glass came up for sale.