First Post

Hello and welcome to Pink Elephants on the move.

I have had quite an interesting week so far. Sunday was spent in Holyrood Park with my Whippet, Rush. We were at the Lure Coursing event in the park. Rush was not in the mood for chasing a rag around a field. We spent the day watching the races and followed it right through to the prize giving at about 5pm. We got back to the flat and Rush decided it would be fun to chase a cat around the car park . Edinburgh is lively just now with the Festival getting in to full swing, the Mela took place in Pilrig Park last weekend and was very well attended.

Anyway on Monday I had an early start, leaving the flat at 6.00 am. I collected a colleague along the road and went on to collect another. We waited outside of his flat and decided to give him a call on the mobile, we woke him up. Some twenty minutes later we were on the road heading for a day in Aberdeen. This was a long day and I won't go into the detail of the work as you might not have signed the official secrets act. In the evening we drove up to Elgin in Morayshire, my first visit that far North on the east side. Stayed in a lovely hotel and had a very nice dinner and an early night. Spent Tuesday in Elgin and drove back to Edinburgh late afternoon arriving in Auld Reekie about 7pm.

Yesterday was spent in Dunfermline in the beautiful kingdom of Fife and was interesting, exhausting and sometimes quite funny too. Last night I went to the temple of the body the Virgin Active and had a good work out and then ruined it with chicken kiev and a few glasses of red wine. You will find as we tread through this world together that I, like many others I know, continuously work to lose weight and get fit. It is a battle that gets more difficult as I rather regrettably acknowledge middle age.

Today has been rather sedate in comparison to the previous three days. I have spent most of the day sitting at my work laptop writing up my findings from the previous three days. I wish I was more skilled at interpreting my own notes and able to do it in half the time.

I only follow one other blog on a regular basis and will tell you about it in my next one, hopefully with a link if that is allowed. The guy, Ian Robinson, was a local radio presenter when I lived in Newcastle and usually posts some really interesting gems. I rather like to attach quotations to the signature of my emails, I usually use different one's for work and home and try to change them regularly. I was delighted to see a long list of them on Ian's blog earlier today. I will share some with you as I get into this. the current one on my personal email is 'Whether you believe you can or you can't do something - you are right!' Henry Ford.

I am off to the gym now for a swim and a relaxing sauna.