Colinton Mains Park; photograph Alan Clark
After
my cornflakes 'n milk I went down early to Colinton Mains Park to play tennis
again; I'm pretty keen. The park's always got a good feel to it at this time of
the year. There's a council employee in charge of the entrance building;
rackets 'n balls and courts can be hired and there's always something going on.
After a good dinner of chips a big group of us including Boo-Boo; Iain; Ali;
Les and others went off for a wee adventure up to the Craigies (Craiglockhart
Hills). It's braw up there with a great view over the city as well as over
Oxgangs and the Pentlands to the south.
We ventured on to the golf course
on our travels and ended up being chased by a man on a tractor; what a flipping
laugh we had and what a buzz - just what the school holidays should be all
about! By the time we left for home back to Oxgangs the rain was on for
the evening.
Back at 6/2 we watched an entertaining feel good film called What A Crazy World starring Joe Brown
all set in cockney London. Freddie and the Dreamers featured too. God he's got
some energy; the man never stops - one of his nicknames is Frantic Freddie but
you cannae help liking him. Now that I think about it he looks a wee bit like
Buddy Holly.
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