We landed in edinburgh about 1.30pm .. missed the 1pm blast i wanted to keep my eardrums and first up was a photo of the bridge above us. Why i hear you ask - well its in burnleys colours claret and blue with a bit of white!!!! So i had to have a photo of that. After that back through the railway station ... and through princes gardens. Then up the hill to the castle.

Im sure spugs was after putting me in one of them wooden boxes ... cos he walked me up the hill .. left me behind .. you will notice this all the way through these photos ..hes in front!!! and not a short way in front either!!!! If you've been to edinburgh and been round the castle .. then you know what its like. Ive been to edinburgh tattoo...

Well i went up to see spugs last weekend. My neighbour was going to a wedding in Lanark .. said do you want a lift .. checked where nearest train station was .. yes theres one in lanark .. yes i will so was arranged .. id get a lift up last friday .. be dropped off at the train station, spugs meet me in glasgow and then off to his .. and back home on the sunday .. so little did we know.

Well had to be a warm day .. there was 4 of us in the car. Spugs had given me a shopping list for him - black puddings full ones not slices, 2 bottles of sterilised milk, and i took up sweeties for him - coltsfoot rock, licorice tablets, forgotten what else. Thats what that post was about ... black puddings were for spugs .. Anyway id...

Have had a cracking day out .. loads of photos .. walked till my legs are like stumps .... up hill .. down hill .. in a cell ..and then back up the flipping hill .... loads of pics .. and theyre brill .. thing is your going to have to wait till i get home to put em on my computer!!!!

Edinburgh castle, the royal mile, holyrood palace, the new carbuncle as spugs calls it .. ive took around 300 photos today .. good job its a digital camera .. not the old film camera .. it'd cost me a fortune to get them developed!!!

Anyway home tomorrow .. have some haggis's if anyone wants one ...

Bye for now ....

are here again .. and its bringing back memories of my hols when i was a kid... ireland for two weeks .. then running riot round rising bridge if i was lucky dad would have a day off and we'd go out for the day but that wasnt often seeing as he was self employed and a felt roofer .. and summer was the time he could work with not as much rain ...

I always got an extra 2 weeks holiday than the others .. because we always went to northern ireland for the 12th July. I never had a birthday at home .. seeing as my birthday is the 11th .. i was always in ireland. We travelled on 9th or 10th .. always overnight .. ready for the first ferry out of Stranrear which was at 6am ... I loved going over on the ferry .. spent most of...

Had to go to the Royal Preston today .. to see my consultant. Its just over 6 months since i saw him last .. well saw one of the registrars then .. and saw another today.

Anyway didnt start out good this morning .. got woken up by the road sweeper .. it had rossendale borough council on the side .. and cos theres been traffic lights outside my house from time to time .. i heard this noise right outside .. i thought it was the sweeper stuck at the lights .. big mistake .. They were stripping the road .. ready for redoing it on Sunday .. and they've gone right along the road its a right mess outside. Went to catch the bus .. and one of LCC workers was stopping the traffic .. and i said have they shut the bus stop .. going to...