No time to think

Not been much time to think lately: too much going on and too little time to do it in.

Trinity Community Council last night: in scale, different certainly ... but the issues are the same: concern for community safety, concern for the local environment, concern for new facilities., but a very different approach. The Forth Partnership may be ultimately more interesting than I thought.


Today a meeting about Muirhouse Millennium Park which isn't being maintained the way it should. The officer made a list of pledges to improve the situation...he'd knows I'll be watching!

Then a poem sent by a constituent on Remembrance Sunday. He wrote and had it published in a book entitled " Anthology of British poems", nearly 20 year ago. It was written for the 75th anniversary of the first war.

Scots men of 1914-18.

The soldiers come so far away,
The piper plays the Scots wa-hae,
A haunting tune that fills the air,
Brave soldiers, they show no despair.

Into the fields of no-mans land, brave soldiers march,
The whistle blows,
The battle cry, '' For king and country, to do or die"
No time to think or reminisce of bygone days- the sergeant cries,
" Go Forward men - Go Forward.''

Into the fields of no mans land - brave soldiers march,
The piper plays for them alone,
Their eyes now closed,
They now are home.

I know he won't mind me sharing it with you -