Today is Monday the 14th November and tomorrow we will be going to Edinburgh (the capital city of Scotland and where I grew up).

Some of you might realise that Edinburgh Castle is on the podcast thumbnail, and the city of Edinburgh is affectionately known as Auld Reekie.

Which in Scots means Old Smokey.

The name came from the 16th and 17th century when the old town was enclosed by city walls and the buildings pumped out smoke through the chimneys that hung round like fog!

We hear of the Auld Reekie poem written by Robert Fergusson in the 1700s and what became of him.

https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/auld-reikie

People were asking about Matilda, well we had peace today.

Matilda along with several of her pensioner pals were playing bingo in Buckie, and went on a four hour trip by bus!

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