A lovely sunny evening in Edinburgh. To finish off a pretty good day I snatched up a paperback and went for a walk along the Water of Leith.
Quiet, ultra-green, smells like being a kid again. The path winds and ducks around any sign of modernisation like a leafy trench run. Threw sticks for excited dogs and nodded polite hellos at their green-fleece-melded owners.
Ran up and down the hill paths to find out which streets they emerge in, until my calves were too sore. Came spinning down one steep path to burst out into open space of green and sun – again the feeling of being out on east coast bike runs in the sunshine.
Up the steps to the back of the Gallery of Modern Art, locked at this time. Climbed over the gates to wander around and sit on the sculpted front lawn (pic), watching the swans duck their heads into the pond like they keep remembering what they did last weekend.
Then tiredly coming back over the Dean Bridge, stopped for a while to look down on our local heron stalking fish in the shallows like a feathered AT-ST.
24-May-06 at 10:18 pm | Permalink
Ha, I’ve just applied for a job at the GMA. Have you been to the cemetery up there?- it’s cool as.
25-May-06 at 9:17 pm | Permalink
I used to eat my lunch there when I worked at the Dean Gallery.
Happy days.
30-May-06 at 9:00 am | Permalink
I used to work round the corner from there, as a receptionist at the Health and Safety Executive.
One day someone phoned up to say there was poops on her doorstep.
“It wasn’t me,” I replied indignantly, and slammed the phone down.
30-May-06 at 1:13 pm | Permalink
it was me.
30-May-06 at 1:13 pm | Permalink
sorry.