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Plaque to Hugh Miller, writer, pioneering Scottish geologist and folklorist, on the side of a wall by the City Chambers, Edinburgh. Sadly the brilliant Miller increasingly struggled to reconcile what he divined of our planet's past through geology with his devout Christian beliefs and he took his own life in 1856. There is a beautiful statue of him by Amelia Paton (who was married to David Octavius Hill, the pioneering Scottish photographer), in the National Museum of Scotland, where many of his fossils and geological specimens are also preserved, you can see a pic of it I took here: www.flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_gazette/6364948101/

"Above the planet on a wing and a prayer,
My grubby halo, a vapour trail in the empty air,
Across the clouds I see my shadow fly
Out of the corner of my watering eye
A dream unthreatened by the morning light
Could blow this soul right through the roof of the night

There's no sensation to compare with this
Suspended animation, a state of bliss

Can't keep my mind from the circling skies
Tongue-tied and twisted just an earth-bound misfit, I "

Learning to fly, Pink Floyd

Hmm, may have to step carefully...

all the glittering attractions of tropical Portobello, Edinburgh's Riviera :-)

superbusy wintertime Wimpy seafront takeaway, Bruce the dog strolling past indifferently looking for someone to scrounge a doggy biscuit from