Hogmanay Edinburgh2019

If you are looking for the Christmas tree gifted by Norway and resplendent when it stood on the Mound last week, you will be wasting your time because it has been chopped off at ground level. If you are looking for the Holy Family scene which stood behind the railings on the Mound, it has been removed in order to accommodate Johnnie Walker’s eight top hatted henchmen who are bank rolling the Hogmanay celebrations.

Edinburgh’s Christmas has been cut short, roll on Underbelly’s remunerative Hogmanay extravaganza.
Easter it seems is also in sight as Sainsbury’s is well prepared with its Easter Eggs on display as I have blipped in my last extra of the year.

The centre of Edinburgh is in a kind of lockdown with pedestrians channelled along lanes between metal crush barriers and restricted crossing points in all roads leading to the epicentre.
Unless something unexpected happens, I will listen in bed to the house rocking firework display from the castle less than half a mile away as midnight strikes and a New Year begins.

I fully expect to be my own first foot tomorrow. With blonde hair, blue eyes and vertically challenged not to mention no coal to hand, the prospects are not entirely propitious for good luck being bestowed upon the Dower House in 2020