Uplifting

Tuesday 2nd March, 2021

A dull day weather wise but I was able to think of walking. First after breakfast and the finishing of two letters I went to my Virtualtrip tour of Edinburgh. I do not do these normally as they do not appeal. However on one such tour my landlady had extolled the virtues of a tour of Edinburgh. She had been impressed by the guide who had been a homeless man. A particular homeless charity in Edinburgh and elsewhere had helped pick him up. The Charity provides somewhere where advice can be sought as well as food, haircuts, baths, clothes and companionship. The Charity trains a homeless person to become a tour guide. They then set up Invisible Cities virtual tours, as a way to give their guides a job and status. So when it was found that this same guide was doing an Invisible Cities tour of Edinburgh I was intrigued. One can tip via the computer and the tips all go to the charity. So I went and , yes, I was much impressed. He gave an excellent running commentary on the Old City and the New. He walked us across the bridge showing various land mark houses, the City Walls and much else. He was fascinating. He spoke of Edinburgh as the Athens of the North, he explained the many inventions, including the telephone and television, by the Scots, their history, much in conflict with the English, and more. He showed us the Edinburgh Parthenon and the first ever statue of an American President built and displayed outside America. It was a statue of Abraham Lincoln. I have learned why there is the term 'Middle classes' and the 'loo' as well as other such mysteries. It was a goodly tour but not necessarily inducing me to go on others. He was truly knowledgable and competent and alive. He did talk at the beginning about the work of the Charity but never mentioned again.

Then I went for my walk with the grabber. I posted the letters and popped in to the Coop shop for lunch: a sausage roll reduced from £1.50 to 24p. It was excellent. I came across a few familiar faces of humans and dogs including my 'man in fancy pants'. He is on furlough and I bumped in to him often. Today he was in yellow striped trousers with a red military coat. I so admire him and might wear the golfing tartan trousers of a golfing style I bought two years ago at a Charity shop I worked in. I can now get in to them but I am 50 years older than the young furlough man! Would I be mutton dressed as lamb?

Finally I started my car checking on the battery as tomorrow I have an appointment with the dentist. What shall I wear? My golfing trousers! This is a major event these days!

I wrote an email to my MP about the Government slashing the aid to Yemen.

I laughed when I saw the robin in the garden next to the new fat ball for the robin is as round and as large as the fat ball!

Lastly I was delighted by a piece of litter I found. It was on a bench by the Tay. It was a card in side a plastic envelope and had a pair of angel's wings made of cotton with it. I nearly threw it in my Tesco detritus bag but decided to look at the card to see if usable. I opened the card which had printed on it 'you are special'. On opening there was a message obviously written by a child. ' Remember who ever you are who is opening this that you are special. Stay well'. Isn't that fabulous and special?