Train Spotting

Once again we were all set for Useful Tasks At Home when Miss Flum phoned to tell us that a certain railway engine, the one that broke down earlier this month, was due to return today pulling a tour from York to Edinburgh and back. Naturally, we dropped everything and drove out to a favourite spotting-place near Inveresk to watch it on the inward journey.

While awaiting the engine we were amused by watching ladybirds in their final stage of maturation - larvae. pupae and then emergence into adult (the last two in the collage).

In the collage next to the ladybirds is my view of the arrival of Tangmere 34067 actually pulling a train. We then beetled off for lunch, a potter round the wee market and a stroll round Newhailes before returning to the viewpoint on the Craigentinny footbridge, to watch it as it pootled here and there before finally heading off to Waverley. We waited some more to wave it on its way to York, see larger photo.

By then we'd all had enough standing around in the sunshine so repaired to Flum Central for tea.