Pisces

This Pisces Balloon Sculpture by Jason Hackenworth, who is currently the artist in residence at the Scottish National Museum, dominates the central space in the main gallery.

It is constructed from thousands of biodegradable balloons woven together, and was made for the Science Festival, but is due to become extinct tomorrow- just in time did we see it.

Despite the fact that high summer is travelling up the A1 from London as I write, with its outriders already knocking at the gates of Edinburgh, the canny inhabitants of this fair city and the visiting tourists were not yet willing to believe the arrival was imminent and chose to bring the children indoors into the museum and out of the sun and rising temperature, thus making for a noisy and enthusiastic congregation of under 12s

The warmth of the day was such that even His Lordship was seen to discard one of his layers of clothing, leaving the number in single figures again.
And the cricketers are out in the Meadows in their whites, and looking quite dashing, an adjective which in any other context other than attire is rather out of place in connection with the game.

I think I shall join His Lordship outside and give some care and attention to the patio plants, or at least to the ones which have survived the winter.