Hop on Hop Off

Sam's photo of his unhinged parents on a hinged Tower Bridge in the morning. We did London in a day with the kids, like the Americans do Scotland in a day. We bussed it to the river and raised our eyes to the skies to the shardy triangle and the pickled green gherkin.We hopped on and hopped off the big red buses, we walked beside a blue chicken under Nelson's feet and among blue painted trees outside Christopher Wren's place. We ate in the shade outside Liz's hoosie and we heard tales of royal excess, ancient and modern. We baked in the heat all day long then hotfooted it by train, bus, plane and car taking us back across the border to Kingseat, where the King of Scotland, King Malcolm (III) Canmore once rested his royal behind on a stone (such excess!) near Kingseat Farm - "jist doon from oor hoose and tak a rite".