http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Shack Attack en Tue, 19 May 2026 05:27:00 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17979#post-356773 Sat, 13 Nov 2021 11:12:14 +0000 gembo 356773@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Not quite the right thread but the Cockburn Association has rightly pointed out that pubs and restaurants with outside spaces have now appropriated public space into private ownership.</p> <p>Victoria St, Royal Mile, Cockburn Street.</p> <p>Thing is this is a non issue if you give the public space that was the domain of drivers over to pedestrians and cyclists.</p> <p>Yet the CA are not campaigning for that solution</p> <p>Victoria St particularly nice without cars as is Cockburn St. and the Royal mile will be the same. So why not support such spaces for people rather than motors? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17979#post-256708 Fri, 04 Aug 2017 21:59:02 +0000 chrisfl 256708@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@cc - I hear that the chicken is VERY good. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17979#post-256690 Fri, 04 Aug 2017 16:26:35 +0000 cc 256690@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>I notice nobody has yet considered the 70s chic of the Leyland Sherpa as suitable for conversion into a trendy mobile* eatery.</em></p> <p>Someone in George Square has, there's a grey LeyDAF van dispensing fried chicken. Near the north west corner. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17979#post-256638 Thu, 03 Aug 2017 18:26:25 +0000 gembo 256638@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Disco with free pint at The Shacks. No clear if the DJ is taking requests. If so I hope he is asks for Shakattak </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17979#post-256453 Tue, 01 Aug 2017 18:51:57 +0000 gembo 256453@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>On beach good, especially if mix of sand and shingle. Most beaches I ever happen to be on do not have many people on them, apart from the boules players and the long suffering partners and children of the boules players. Actually Master Gembo came on to a good game on the Southwold strip this summer.</p> <p>With equidistant boules my rule is to let the children win (sometimes the children are quite old). I used to feel adults should always lob With back of the hand facing upwards but now, I really do not cAre.</p> <p>Dysyni valley we played in gardens and on lower slopes of Cadder Idris. Mountain Boules Rules only</p> <p>When the situation is faire un palouf we love to say Short as a Carrot </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17979#post-256452 Tue, 01 Aug 2017 18:49:22 +0000 I were right about that saddle 256452@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>See if you play with the Red, Green, Yellow and Blue coloured plastic balls does that still count?</em></p> <p>Yeeees, but not on a beach please. 600g 'tender' boules of the 'Obus' brand will be acceptable, though I rusted mine playing on the foreshore of the Wirral.</p> <p>Tu tires ou tu pointes? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17979#post-256444 Tue, 01 Aug 2017 17:34:43 +0000 crowriver 256444@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The (largely) English equivalent to boules would be Aunt Sally. As a kid, used to play that in pub gardens back in the 1970s.</p> <p>Lawn bowls more like pétanque regarding level of seriousness. Not played in the street though. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17979#post-256441 Tue, 01 Aug 2017 16:50:37 +0000 gembo 256441@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>See if you play with the Red, Green, Yellow and Blue coloured plastic balls does that still count?</p> <p>If so I have played it in Acharacle (ArdToe beach, Norfolk (Brancaster, Holkham, Bacton Beaches), Suffolk - Southwold, Wales (Dysynni Valley) and Bedford (in the garden of the pub where Eddie Fitzgerald used to come for the fishing, He wrote that Rubyiat of Omar Khayam. Master Gembo committed a foul here by allowing his boule to roll into the Great Ouse)</p> <p>Nice with glass of wine. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17979#post-256438 Tue, 01 Aug 2017 16:34:20 +0000 I were right about that saddle 256438@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>What is difference between Boules and Petanque? </em></p> <p>There are three French bowling games in my mind. Boules and pétanque are technically the same game but it's boules when you're drunk or English and pétanque when you're all serious with world championships, a fag in your mouth and stuff. Pétanque you throw with your feet together.</p> <p>There's another thing called 'le jeu lyonnais' where the boules are bigger, hollow and you take a run-up. It's played on a special pitch. Not sure if players are drunk or sober. Probably tipsy. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17979#post-256433 Tue, 01 Aug 2017 16:16:08 +0000 gembo 256433@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@crowriver, Two gold albums, one for each keyboard. The backing singers not even attempting to lip synch and the bass player has borrowed his sunspecs from Bingo of The Banana Splits </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17979#post-256432 Tue, 01 Aug 2017 16:13:28 +0000 gembo 256432@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@IWRATS, hence the nice little drystane ledge for the wine</p> <p>What is difference between Boules and Petanque? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17979#post-256428 Tue, 01 Aug 2017 15:34:33 +0000 I were right about that saddle 256428@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>gravel in the circle would have made a nice petanque court </em></p> <p>Gravel favours slingers, second only to sand. It's <em>terre battue</em> we're after for our boulodrome. Hard, fast pitch and roll is what I like. Also it's a game I refuse to play sober. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17979#post-256423 Tue, 01 Aug 2017 15:11:56 +0000 crowriver 256423@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"nobody has yet considered the 70s chic of the Leyland Sherpa as suitable for conversion into a trendy mobile* eatery."</p> <p>Far too proletarian. No bourgie point scoring options such as loudly exclaiming while in the artisan soup queue: "The local peasants still drive these in the village near our home in the Dordogne". </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17979#post-256422 Tue, 01 Aug 2017 15:09:15 +0000 crowriver 256422@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQxQScUeRW8" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQxQScUeRW8</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17979#post-256415 Tue, 01 Aug 2017 14:16:56 +0000 kaputnik 256415@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Looks like a small shack forest is sprouting up in the small compound next to the Out of the Blue Drill Hall on Dalmeny Street.</p> <p>It joins the urban plywood favela atop Waverley Market and the one in George Square, firmly cementing Edinburgh's place as the top of the ironically permanent "pop up" street food leagues of Europe.</p> <p>It must be practically impossible to buy an old Citroen HY van now as they've all been converted into artisan soup kitchens or poutine wagons. I notice nobody has yet considered the 70s chic of the Leyland Sherpa as suitable for conversion into a trendy mobile* eatery.</p> <p>Apparently there's a "Covfefe" stall at George Square.</p> <p>* not mobile really. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17979#post-256413 Tue, 01 Aug 2017 14:00:55 +0000 dougal 256413@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Shack Attack? I think I preferred Shacknado. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17979#post-256398 Tue, 01 Aug 2017 13:11:14 +0000 gembo 256398@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Grass would die in the shady neuk of Trunks Close but gravel in the circle would have made a nice petanque court and the drystane perimeter wall seats for spectators and ledge pour du vin </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17979#post-256396 Tue, 01 Aug 2017 13:04:31 +0000 I were right about that saddle 256396@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>A bust of Patrick Geddes bizatrrely overlooking an astroturf circle</em></p> <p>Nothing bizarre about it. The modern valley section has an area for synthetic sports pitches between the arable farmland and suburbia.</p> <p>We live in a plastic leaf economy now. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17979#post-256395 Tue, 01 Aug 2017 12:58:37 +0000 gembo 256395@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The new precinct off the Royal Mile at Canongate with the nice archway and the dear food stalls has gone mental. No room for skateboarding now. All the shacks have been breeding and the whole place is plywood, hardboard bars, food stalls and one Gin Trailer. Very cluttered. Cockburn Society informed.</p> <p>In my psychogeographic perambulation in my tea break around Trunks Close, Chalmers Close and Carrubbers Close I spotteda bout 50% of the artworks (they are hard to finsd) a massive anti-captialist dragon in the Trintiy Apse, A bust of Patrick Geddes bizatrrely overlooking an astroturf circle and the bust of Henry Cockbu8rn keeking out the Cockburn Society windae. Also a nice raspberry from the Trinity Apse garden. ALl much better than the shack attack of plywood. </p>