http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Great Canal Journeys, Channel 4 en Fri, 22 May 2026 05:58:34 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14636#post-185286 Wed, 08 Apr 2015 14:04:09 +0000 wee folding bike 185286@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I was sitting beside both of them in the Citz a few years ago. The audience were more famous than the players. It was a play about Laurel and Hardy.</p> <p>aedan </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14636#post-185266 Wed, 08 Apr 2015 11:34:30 +0000 Cyclingmollie 185266@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I enjoyed the programme. I'm amazed at how neglected the canals were. And it's interesting to see two people adapting to the effects of aging in such a positive way. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14636#post-185264 Wed, 08 Apr 2015 11:29:33 +0000 fimm 185264@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Cool. Those railings are visible on StreetView (just by the bridge) I've been past there lots of times and never noticed/knew they were there! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14636#post-185261 Wed, 08 Apr 2015 10:21:55 +0000 chdot 185261@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.colinton-conservation.org.uk/railings-1.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.colinton-conservation.org.uk/railings-1.htm</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14636#post-185260 Wed, 08 Apr 2015 10:19:42 +0000 gembo 185260@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Here is a thing about colinton. Phoebe Anne Traquair of the murals fame is buried in the church yard. See Kelly Castle in Fife or the church at Drummond high school for murals of angels.</p> <p>Apparently some railings in colinton by her too. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14636#post-185257 Wed, 08 Apr 2015 10:17:21 +0000 DaveC 185257@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Where is this place they mentioned Fal Kirk?</p> <p>I was dissapointed to hear no mention of the Slateford Aquaduct pusher inner. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14636#post-185255 Wed, 08 Apr 2015 09:58:51 +0000 kaputnik 185255@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Wilmington's Cow they threw those in the pile of rejects alongside those for Dumfermline </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14636#post-185246 Wed, 08 Apr 2015 00:10:15 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 185246@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Was it not local dialect that lead to signs produced by the council for Colington? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14636#post-185238 Tue, 07 Apr 2015 21:55:14 +0000 gembo 185238@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Heard a third pronunciation of Menzies apart from menzies and Mingus. Sounded like meanies. But even the person whose name it was gave up and resorted to Menzies for purposes of spelling. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14636#post-185237 Tue, 07 Apr 2015 21:21:41 +0000 Uberuce 185237@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>My aunt is from Lenzie, and it is...drum roll....Lenzie. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14636#post-185236 Tue, 07 Apr 2015 21:21:24 +0000 I were right about that saddle 185236@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>As long as the 'way to make a soliton wave' is a horse-drawn narrowboat we're good to go.</p> <p>Suspect 'soliton wave' is a tautology, but willing to let it go. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14636#post-185235 Tue, 07 Apr 2015 21:11:31 +0000 gembo 185235@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Also nice to approach via the long tunnel. However if I cycle there again on canal I will take the road back as it gets to be a slog and a half. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14636#post-185232 Tue, 07 Apr 2015 19:19:07 +0000 wee folding bike 185232@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The cafe is OK too. I was there on Sunday. They do potato scones on a roll.</p> <p>There is a nice watery play park for the warmer weather. It has an Archimedes screw and a way to make a soliton wave.</p> <p>They did have model Kelpies last summer but I couldn't see them at the weekend. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14636#post-185231 Tue, 07 Apr 2015 18:39:41 +0000 I were right about that saddle 185231@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I took a wrong turn today and got my first sight of the Falkirk Wheel as a result. It's really impressive. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14636#post-185223 Tue, 07 Apr 2015 16:53:22 +0000 kaputnik 185223@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Apparently early printers in the Scottish lowlands didn't have access to yoghs which were reasonably common in place and family names of old French descent, so used lower-case or cursive Zs instead, and your Dalziels and Menzies and Cadzows stuck.</p> <p>I never knew that Mackenzie is "meant" to be pronounced Mackendjie.</p> <p>If it's on Wikipedia, it must be true.</p> <p>I wonder if Lenzie is <em>really</em> Lendjie. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14636#post-185222 Tue, 07 Apr 2015 16:45:35 +0000 dougal 185222@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I've only ever known it as ~= "cawkinnie" and <a href="http://www.hearplanet.com/article/814301">according to random internet pages this is how the locals say it</a>. The magic ingredient being the yogh like in Menzies. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14636#post-185220 Tue, 07 Apr 2015 16:12:40 +0000 kaputnik 185220@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>My mum grew up in Abbeyhill and was not pleased to have me correct her that it should be "Cad-yow" and not "Cad-zoh" Place. As she was a teacher she spent my childhood chiding me for performing the east coast glottal stop, so I go out of my way if there's a chance to pick her up on matters of dialect. They later moved to Mont-peel-yur in Bruntsfield. A generation later I too lived in the same street but it took a number of years before I realised it isn't spelled Brunstfield. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14636#post-185216 Tue, 07 Apr 2015 15:37:14 +0000 wingpig 185216@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Wouldn't it be "Cokingh", extrapolating from Menzies-as-a-first-name?<br /> Despite there being some regions-suffixed-Shire up here it's often over-pronounced "shy-urrr" in reference to southron -shire counties, whereas it's often reduced to -"ʃƏ" in the southron counties themselves. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14636#post-185215 Tue, 07 Apr 2015 15:27:39 +0000 kaputnik 185215@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Nelly</p> <p>I don't understand as I too have a Wark-ester Bose'ch combi boiler. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14636#post-185212 Tue, 07 Apr 2015 15:08:28 +0000 Cyclingmollie 185212@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I was in a Twitter discussion last week where someone seriously suggested that Cockenzie was pronounced Cockinnie and it wasn't 1st April. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14636#post-185206 Tue, 07 Apr 2015 13:35:02 +0000 Nelly 185206@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>We had a member of staff once with a combi boiler manufactured by Worcester.</p> <p>After she had described it two or three times, I didnt have the heart to correct her ! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14636#post-185203 Tue, 07 Apr 2015 13:21:23 +0000 PS 185203@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>It's the same anywhere. You wouldn't believe how many people don't know how to pronounce Carlisle or Moresby. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14636#post-185198 Tue, 07 Apr 2015 12:35:00 +0000 dougal 185198@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Took a holiday cottage for a weekend with some friends near Muthill. We honestly never did find out if our guessed pronunciation was correct. The nearest chip shop had a delightful profusion of errant apostrophes in their signage though none where they were needed. I like to think someone came to rearrange them every day like the letters on the Fawlty Towers sign. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14636#post-185183 Tue, 07 Apr 2015 11:16:30 +0000 Arellcat 185183@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I was cycling beside Loch Lomond at the weekend. The big house (now, Rossdhu Mansion) is the seat of Clan Colquhoun. I wonder how many non-natives have trouble with that one. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14636#post-185179 Tue, 07 Apr 2015 11:06:25 +0000 kaputnik 185179@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Cb that's a great wee story.</p> <p>My old flatmate in St. Andrews (from Leicestershire) would frequently disorientate me in conversations with his references to Kirk Caldy. He had no excuse given his family actually hailed from there a few generations past.</p> <p>Let's not get started on Kilconquhar or St. Monans. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14636#post-185176 Tue, 07 Apr 2015 10:57:34 +0000 cb 185176@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"inability to pronounce Falkirk"</p> <p>My dad once went into a shop in Camelon and asked, how do you pronounce the name of this place?</p> <p>"Spar" was the incredulous reply. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14636#post-185086 Sun, 05 Apr 2015 23:13:00 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 185086@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Ah, forgot about this! Watched one of the ones from down south and it was really good. Praise be for On Demand. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14636#post-185084 Sun, 05 Apr 2015 23:01:40 +0000 Stickman 185084@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Nice programme on C4 tonight as Timothy West and Prunella Scales travel between Edinburgh and Glasgow by canal. </p> <p>Fountainbridge, Ratho, Avon aquaduct, Falkirk Wheel, the Waverley all shown along with some footage of the canal at its unloved low point </p> <p>A pleasant Sunday evening show, spoilt only by Timothy West's inability to pronounce Falkirk. </p> <p>Recommended. </p>