They have started celebrating early. Those sardines need buried. Mas tarde…

Settling in now. I was very tired on my first full day here. Loads of work to get through.

Woke quite early. The flat is very small and you need to stand on some wee steps to see out of a skylight. I took this a while after the light started to enter the sky. It shows blue skies. Hopefully it will be a nice day. The first 36 hours were grey and chilly.

Todo lo mejor!

Badger enjoys the colder walks.

Longniddry in mid February.

I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time — when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness…

A couple of places I love spending time in East Lothian. Saltoun Big Woods and Cockenzie House and Gardens. January 2017. Chilly but clear, blue skies and a refreshing frost!

I took time for a quick visit to Bamburgh to walk Badger. It was an Open Weekend at the Castle. So I tool the opportunity to visit. What a wonderful place.