From the opposite side!

Today's blip is taken from the opposite side of Waverley to most of my working day blips.

Towering above Waverley station and the loco that will tonight take the Inverness sleeper from Edinburgh to Carstairs Junction and on to Euston (I think!) is Governor's House.

Governor's House was built in 1815-17 as part of Calton Gaol, designed by Archibald Elliot. When I started working for the Scottish Executive (as it was then), it housed the Security team. They later made way for the Video and TV Production Unit (later multimedia team) but they've since moved into St Andrew's House next door. For a while it was rumoured that Governor's House would become the official residence of the First Minister, replacing Bute House, which is owned by the National Trust for Scotland, but that rumour seems to have died out lately. For now, it seems to be mothballed, the gates leading to it usually locked.

I was down at Waverley Court at the City of Edinburgh Council's offices (in the board room) for a meeting of the SOPA Committee (Scottish Older People's Assembly), on which I sit in my capacity of Scottish Government Older People policy official. At 36 I'm not claiming to be an Older Person myself yet.

It's felt a long week. I thought Tuesday was Thursday so that gives you an insight into my exhaustion then! Roll on 4pm tomorrow (or whenever it is that I escape!). No Saturday working this week as the Bill team think they should manage comfortably.