If I have learned anything over the past few weeks it is to keep my mouth shut and my mind open!

It is a lesson many need to learn whether grieving or not. A little bit of understanding of where others are at would go a long way to healing many hurts.

Wee Scots may be ‘canny’ but we can also be very verbal and it is that verbosity that can lead us into all kinds of bother. Once the word or words are out, they are out and the hardest word to find after that is…….sorry!

I may have been silent through my own grief lately but I have been watching and listening and what I have seen and heard amid all the fallouts makes me ask myself, can we rise above it or will we allow the prize to slip between our hands?

In a game of chess, it is not always wise to sacrifice the pawns.

But this is not a game and we need to take everyone with us. Let us not fall into the trap of putting people on pedestals, parties and organizations have risen and fallen on that rock.

We are all Sovereign, so let us all take our equal place in the rebuilding of our Nation.

We have thrown the first Salvo, let it land where it will and move on from there.