Last night we went to Botanic Night, or Lights, I can’t remember which, but it is a light show at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh, with a kinetic sculpture on the loch and on the rear of Inverleith House.  It felt all quite magical and other worldly, most people were very taken by it (one woman was loudly phoning a restaurant to book a table, honestly, no sense of place). Two wee boys were dressed as Batman and jumped out from the pools of light around the trees saying “Happy Hallowe’en!”, which made me smile, and there were lots of douce Edinburghers too, all in the pouring rain.

In other news, good gig with the Mincers at DB Sailing Club last weekend, excellent new-to-us band Bruce and Walker at the Folk Club, and the realisation is dawning that I really must start thinking about Christmas.