Another Open Grave

 

          Yesterday, I was in a restaurant for the second time in over a year. The first time was about ten days ago and they weren't selling alcohol inside then, so I thought it was safe to meet the old toothless one, the baldy Brian Wilson for lunch.

           I noticed folk in the restaurant downstairs drinking inside a couple of days ago, and I tried to get out of going for lunch with Brian Wilson, especially when he booked us a table outside some joint I'd never heard of. This is when it was pouring outside and in the coldest May anybody can remember.

          I tried to organise a visit to my brother, who is now in a care home in Viewpark, but it seems that I have to wait for a slot in two weeks. The old toothless one is not in a care home yet, but it can't be long now, and I thought I'd better go to the lunch since I did promise him a couple of weeks ago.

          Brian Wilson was incapable of doing anything without an app, so I called The Roseleaf, a very nice bar restaurant in Leith. They have a blackboard and chalk in the bog. When I went in there, someone had written Brian rules on the blackboard. So I wrote,

                ALL COMPOUNDED THINGS ARE SUBJECT TO DISSOLUTION. 

           I don't think I was trying to be funny with the spelling when  I wrote,

                PURSUE YOUR SALVASHION WITH DILIGENCE

          I think it was another time when I wrote,

                WALK ON.

           I should have taken my own advice. I fell asleep (passed out) on the bus and wakened up in Bruntsfield. At the start of this afternoon, I donned the Beer Monster Reduction Vehicle (bin liner, sweat shirts, sleeveless woollen jumper, simmit) and sweated some beer out. I feel good now and will go up to the allotment to meditate.

          The quote is from my wall. It's my version of what the Buddha said before he died. I think he's supposed to have said the last two lines.

           Brian Wilson sent me the photo today. I haven't had a haircut since before I was in India a couple of  years ago now.

The end of digging and planting

 

          

                    The allotment looked like the bottom photie on the 15th of March, but by yesterday it had been dug over twice and there's not really much room to plant anything else. It started with some leeks from last year, but not it's got brassica, onions, tatties, turnips, and I've put in some carrot seeds.

                    I tried to get into my Kindle publishing account just then and that's the first time I've tried that for .... well, it's probably two years since I could access it. I jumped through a few hoops until it asked me the time limit on a debit card I lost a while back. Then it said I'd have to phone someone and there might be international charges involved. The main thing is that I didn't get annoyed!! 

                     So I'll have another go tomorrow. I got a landline put in because I tried to phone kindle in Seattle when I was shut out before and it drained my mobile phone of all credit. I'd charged it up with thirty quid too. We'll see. I'd like to get back into the account.

                     

Deer

           We usually go out to see some countryside, trees at the weekend because my friend works from home and never gets out. The trees, rivers (usually with Esk in the name somewhere) are good for your head, just being out there and hearing the birdies and all that.

             Today was typical. We went to Musselburgh beach, Inveresk Lodge Garden, and Newhailes Estate. 

              In the lodge garden we saw a deer. This is the third deer I've seen around the Central Belt in the last couple of years. In fact, we saw two at Mavisbank a month or so ago. Last year or the year before we saw on up by a reservoir near Polmont. I thought all the deer in Scotland were in the Highlands, but obviously not. The one in the middle photie is just behind the tree and almost invisible on the photie, but it was a stand out in real life. 

              The bluebells were in a wood on the Newhailes Estate. That's the house in the top photie.