Productive

I had a much more productive day. Working from home meant I could intersperse things like a peloton workout, a walk down to the Blue Bridge to check on progress (which yielded a collage blip with lots of pieces of new street art), and some domestic stuff (cleaning the family bathroom in preparation for visitors tomorrow) amongst a couple of meetings and good progress on paperwork related matters. One of the meetings relates to an interesting peer review task I've taken on, which will involve a visit to Stockholm in August.

Meanwhile, it's been another glorious and rather warm day. Not so warm that Mr A has divested himself of his jumper, so let's steady on. But quite warm. I've had to chuck more water on the one remaining pot of poppy plants and sweet Williams to prevent them from wilting away completely. And it's good that there is daylight at this time of the year that is not accompanied by the noise from across the way. Winter has been grim because by the time the building site noise has disappeared, the light has gone. This evening, we've got the balcony door open and you can hear the birds .... not just pigeons and seagulls, but also wood pigeons and something that's tweeting.... Probably a blackbird. And I can still see Calton Hill from my chair.

One of the pictures shows the Rennie's Lock bridge which has been closed for years and which is being renovated by Forth Ports, who are also renovating the Blue (Victoria) Bridge. Leith will look good when it's finished and the trams will run round behind the blue bridge which will be scenic. But I cannot imagine how hot the workers inside the plastic wrapping renovating the Rennie's Lock bridge must have been.....