Squirrels

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Yesterday, I went to look at the Christmas lights strung out along Princes Street. I like lights in trees - I think it a great pity that, in Edinburgh, they only put them on during Christmas; they add a touch of magic to usually dull evening street scenes.

Unfortunately, there were few lights on yesterday evening; though they had been on last week - we saw them as we went to the Queen's Hall on Friday - the ones to the west of the Mound weren't on at all.

This morning, I learned why: apparently, squirrels in Princes St Gardens have been eating through the cables! This year, the council changed to low power transmission cables, in an effort to be green; and the cables are softer, and the squirrels don't get much of a shock from them either.

They talked about it on Radio Scotland - interviewing a hapless councillor - but unfortunately, they haven't got the story on the BBC website...

Still, this is what the lights looked like last year!

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I heard that story this morning, and had a wee chuckle about it. My donner about Glasgow last night took in the Christmas decoration in George Square (a bit garish) and the web of lights over Ashton lane (quite European). The tree lights down by the Clyde are on all year, too, and look magical.