http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: What is the word for...? en Tue, 19 May 2026 07:58:55 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20452#post-343287 Mon, 04 Jan 2021 13:14:22 +0000 amir 343287@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Yes - also pretty bad around Dalkeith. Not suitable for walking this morning. It's one of those weird days when the temperature is above zero but there's sheet and balck ice everywhere.<br /> Bike fixing day! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20452#post-343281 Mon, 04 Jan 2021 11:40:50 +0000 gembo 343281@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@cyclingmollie, if only, the routes up this way are lethal ice rinks. The main road is enticing me. Now. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20452#post-343280 Mon, 04 Jan 2021 11:36:12 +0000 Cyclingmollie 343280@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The phrase you are looking for gembo is "nice day for a walk instead". </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20452#post-343239 Sun, 03 Jan 2021 13:32:37 +0000 I were right about that saddle 343239@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Sunspots. Volcanoes. Milankovitch bicycles. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20452#post-343236 Sun, 03 Jan 2021 13:21:06 +0000 chdot 343236@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>“see In the Deep Midwinter“</p> <p>That was MidEurope. </p> <p>“now doesn’t even get cold until New Year“</p> <p>Now it’s MidClimateCrisis. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20452#post-343233 Sun, 03 Jan 2021 12:37:55 +0000 gembo 343233@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Weather fronts mov8ng eastwards, forecasts constantly changing. Roads not icy but the dreaded slush is to the fore. The drivers through FFS they are not slow8ng down today at all.</p> <p>Also gritter just went round Balerno then out the Whang </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20452#post-343230 Sun, 03 Jan 2021 12:24:04 +0000 amir 343230@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>It's all melting around here - heavy rain/sleet showers. Eek. We managed to get in a good exploratory walk around our hood between showers. Hopefully it will be "nice" enough for a road cycle this pm (need a break from indoors cycling hell). </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20452#post-343229 Sun, 03 Jan 2021 12:23:06 +0000 I were right about that saddle 343229@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>That word is 'Scotland'. Trying to imagine the glorious landscape that you would see were it not for the supersonic horizontal hail stripping the flesh from one side of your face etc.</p> <p>Autumn now lasts five months. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20452#post-343228 Sun, 03 Jan 2021 12:01:56 +0000 gembo 343228@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Used to be for sure, see In the Deep Midwinter</p> <p>But now doesn’t even get cold until New Year </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20452#post-343226 Sun, 03 Jan 2021 11:56:47 +0000 chdot 343226@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Midwinter? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20452#post-343225 Sun, 03 Jan 2021 11:47:34 +0000 gembo 343225@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@chdot, like it, less specific than usual though? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20452#post-343224 Sun, 03 Jan 2021 11:44:35 +0000 chdot 343224@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Winter? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20452#post-343221 Sun, 03 Jan 2021 11:34:26 +0000 gembo 343221@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Getting your kit on to go out for a recce and then the snow falling heavily just as you open your front door?</p> <p>Reality check?</p> <p>Still better than being half way up the Whang when it came on, a cold and lonely spot you understand. </p>