Well, Kate Forbes' decision not to stand again. The Scottish Parliament is the talk of the steamy.

We look at the huge question of childcare, not just for her, but for everyone.

Speculate on who might stand in her constituency. Have a bit of discussion about the

disagreements you might have over everything from the stance on gay marriage to her economic strategy and look at the

suggestion that infrastructure has to come first before you can get to wealth creation and childcare

is infrastructure so a lot on that something on stormer and his guddled position on Palestine, and John Swinney and his interrupted Edinburgh fringe gig over the question of whether he condemned Israel's genocide.

All of that with a little swatch of belladrum and a lot of speculation and recounting about wind. Those are the headlines now for the podcast.

Well, hi folks and welcome to this week's Leslie Ridic podcast. Leslie, are you still there or

have you blown into the tape? Yeah, definitely still here, although it was definitely pretty

frisky yesterday.

And although no massive trees down, I'm taking care of a neighbour's hens at the moment, would you believe?

She's off on holiday.

So my main concern was that the coop stayed in one piece.

So actually, you know, it's just not being too bad.

How about you?

You were off at Belladrum.

We were at Belladrum, which was was really excellent i'm not normally a big campy festival type of a person but i was mrs thompson told me that it was a kind of a pre-planned it was basically kind of

fet to complete this is booked in your coming.

And it was absolutely brilliant. It was fantastic weather. I mean, the weather really held up over the course of the sort of Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. A wee bit of rain

overnight on Saturday. But really fantastic. Great atmosphere. Brilliant to be in the highlands.

And then came back and went to Athlsonford on

Monday morning to be a good boy scout and lower the big saltire that we've got there at the

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