Completing the record

The building end to be seen here on the right hand side is the other end of the building on the left of Monday's blip. What's been knocked down here  (where the digger is) has had various purposes over the time we have been in our flat, including operating as a nursery and prior to that some sort of bar. I never went in there, and the building, which was derelict for many years, seemed to collapse completely even before formal demolition. Unfortunately I never photographed it. I regret that now. Great piece of street art in there, dating from the period of dereliction, I guess.

Anyway, like Monday's blip, this is mainly for my records.

In the background, you can see the new Alps that have been created on the main bit of the demolition site (all comprising crunched concrete) and, further away, the elegant spire of the North Leith Parish Church, dating from the beginning of the nineteenth century. All those vistas will disappear again at ground level, once the new buildings go up. That's just like our brief view of St Giles up on the High Street that appeared after the demolition of the St James Centre and before the new buildings went up.

Today's activities were mainly about walking to work (and back much later on), a good session of writing in the office and some efforts to persuade a number of students that they should comply with the request, nay instruction, that it's one person per booth (not two or four) in the various sitting areas on the first floor. I suspect that complacency, as ever, is creeping in. If things go pear shaped, then the privilege of using the building will simply disappear again, and we'll be back where we were in March, just as they are in France and numerous other places. At the moment, the numbers in Scotland are largely holding steady, but it wouldn't take much for things to tip in the wrong direction again.