The research highlight of this trip - that is, the planned research highlight, as opposed to moments of inspiration that occasionally drift in front of me as I walk through a temperate rain forest - was the Aeolian Harp Pavilion in Edinburgh's Royal Botanic Gardens. It was built in 2012 by harp maker Mark Norris from a wych elm that had fallen victim (as almost all British elms have) to Dutch Elm disease: the huge stump remains. I guess - if the wind ever blows through it (it was a still and sunny day) that it sounds its own lament.
These Botanic Gardens are spectacular, and wonderful.
Exhausted, we caught a bus to Leith, and wandered around, and I introduced Alice to my favorite tongue-twister: The Leith Police Dismisseth Us. Try it. Now try it again, faster.
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