South Queensferry Daily Photo

It's 1400 at the Dharma Cafe and it has only four cinnamon buns and two sandwiches left to sell - will they be sold before closing time? Everything is up in the air as the contractors arrive to dig into the cobbles. Would you rather have three corgis or three kittens to look after? Wrong answers only. The weeds are getting out of control according to experts and residents. Somebody, about whom we know nothing, appears to have fallen over in our garden and then escaped, hopefully none the worse. Many consider the repairs to the pier to be a bit of an unfinished project. After a while people don't think that queuing for ice cream on a chilly afternoon isn't a strange thing to be doing. Elsewhere the stonemasons have finished their dusty tasks so now it's over to the painters to paint. For others sitting outside Orocco Pier on a metal seat with a pint of beer isn't really a good look, hardly Parisian chic or Barcelona style but it's all that's available to us here. Never actually done it myself. There was no cruise ship in yesterday so the bagpipers are unemployed again. Meanwhile in the garden of earthly delights we give the peas a chance and observe the alien mutants in the undergrowth.