The next prompt from Susannah Conway for the August Break project is 'memory'.
I took this photograph of Allan Ramsay's fine statue, and the Castle, when I attended the Edinburgh Book Festival in Charlotte Square in Edinburgh.
The annual Book Festival is delightful; small, intimate and manageable, a self contained Festival within the enormous event that is the annual Edinburgh Festival and Fringe.
I had a ticket for a reading and book signing by the very talented and, as it turns out, funny and likable Nina Stibbe, who wrote 'Love, Nina'; letters written to her sister circa 1982 when she worked as a Nanny*.
I also worked as a Nanny in the early 1980's, so her book brought back lots of good memories. My memory must have failed me recently though, because I had forgotten how utterley beautiful Edinburgh can be, very early on a cool Sunday morning at the end of August.
*She also read exerpts from her new book, 'Man at the Helm', which were so funny I laughed my mascara off.