Lockdown week 2 - Thursday

Today we decided to walk into town. This is usually a very busy road; today there was some traffic but not very much. Buses passed, empty.

This amazing building was built as Donaldson's School for the Deaf. The deaf school moved out some years ago and it's now being turned into flats, with more, modern, flats and town houses built behind the main building. They're extremely expensive, but handily near the centre of town.

 
The tulips in this municipal bed are flowering nicely but the grass could do with being cut. I imagine this may not happen for a bit.

We'd never seen this before, set into the paving slabs in Stafford Street. It wasn't there the last time I came along here. It commemorates William Fielding, an American entrepreneur who set up Turkish baths in this street in 1886. I'm not sure why this is worthy of a special stone, but presumably he has fans.

We walked along William Street, which has many nice independent shops. All shut.

And Melville Street, which is usually full of parked cars.

We admired St Mary's Cathedral's daffodils...

... and then descended these steps to the river.

The river path was a bit busier today, but we all practised social distancing, and most people said hello as well.

There's Antony Gormley again, standing in the middle of the water.

And then we came home. We'd walked about four miles.

Then this evening we had a lovely Zoom chat with the Edinburgh grandchildren, with Nanny and Gramps from Worcester joining in. It was good. But not as good as being able to give them a cuddle.