The Moon And The Obelisk

We were up early to take the car to Peebles for an MOT.
First I had to scrape the ice off the car.
Then we had to battle with the traffic (a lot more than we expected...or have encountered in the past at the same time).
South of Penicuik it hit -6C .... but had warmed up to -5C in Peebles (although it had been -9C when the boss had arrived for work).

We picked up the courtesy car and headed home.
Passing my sisters old house I notices that all the rendering had been stripped off and the front garden was 'missing' to a depth of about 18". I suspect the house is going to get a new coating and the garden is going to be turned into a parking area.
Further down the road I pulled off the road to go and look at the obelisk in the field (that I had never noticed before in all the hundreds of times I had passed.
I climbed the fence, slipped and slithered up (and down) the frozen field and walked around the triangular pillar. There was a long inscription carved on one of the faces but there was almost nothing legible.
Several pictures were taken - including some of the sun through the trees - and they are Over Here.

Back home I did a wee bit of research on the obelisk and found out it was erected to commemorate one Sophia Inglis. Sophia was born in 1741 and died in 1775. She was the beloved daughter of one Alexander Inglis and married to an Advocate - John Monro (whose father was Professor of Anatomy at Edinburgh University).
The memorial was erected by her sister apparently. 

Late afternoon and it was back in the courtesy car to go and collect our serviced and MOT'd car.
It required a couple of tyres and some pipe ....not too bad.
Mind you - it is going to require rear shock absorbers ASAP but they are on 'back-order' with no delivery date available. The bad news is they cost about £500 .... EACH!

The trip home was horrendous. How people can do that everyday ...after a hard days work....is beyond me.