🐟Saltmarket Hall roof repair finished

The roof repair at the covered market is complete and the fish aisle reopens indoors this weekend. The temporary stalls on the square will be gone by Monday.

The Saturday shop gets shorter. Since January it has been two queues: vegetables and bread inside, then out across the square in whatever the estuary was throwing, for sardines. Now it is one loop again, and I can do it with a climbing bag and one working hand.

The square gets its Saturday back. The plant stall and the knife-grinder had been pushed up against the railings all winter to make room.

Checked on the 10th, after slabs: fish back in its place by the east door, ice and all, and the same man, in dry shoes. Bought sardines to mark the occasion.

And seven weeks late, on a job with one roof, no software and no reorganisation. The 🧩 Planning fallacy is not a condition peculiar to product managers, which I found more comforting than I should have.

• Fictional local news, page five.
• The glass roof over the east aisle of 🛒 Saltmarket Hall is finished, seven weeks late. The scaffolding came down on Wednesday.
• The fish stalls, which have spent the winter under tarpaulins out on 🏛️ Saltmarket Square, are back inside from Saturday.
• The article has one quotation from a fishmonger, and it is about his feet.
• Seven weeks late on a roof. I read that with professional sympathy.