http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Glasgow smells (Edinburgh too) en Thu, 21 May 2026 08:08:50 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8283#post-82773 Tue, 28 Aug 2012 12:29:06 +0000 crowriver 82773@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>We need a word for the sort of training incurred by riding up a hill behind a Firstbus or a particularly old taxi whilst holding your breath until it changes gear or a crosswind creates a temporary safe-to-breathe space.</em></p> <p>Diving? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8283#post-82767 Tue, 28 Aug 2012 11:34:43 +0000 Kirst 82767@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Along with all the other smells on the Innocent (pigs' heads, burning cars etc) there's also the coconutty smell of the gorse, and the oatcakey smell of Nairns. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8283#post-82762 Tue, 28 Aug 2012 10:15:19 +0000 lionfish 82762@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The aroma of burgers cooking outside my office window for the last month has made me so hungry! Festival's mostly over now, and cooking of burgers seems to have stopped too... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8283#post-82758 Tue, 28 Aug 2012 09:52:37 +0000 wingpig 82758@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><blockquote><em>How about the all-pervading stink of motor fumes? Hard to smell anything else most times."</em></blockquote></p> <p>We need a word for the sort of training incurred by riding up a hill behind a Firstbus or a particularly old taxi whilst holding your breath until it changes gear or a crosswind creates a temporary safe-to-breathe space.</p> <p>Biscuit-factory-smell doesn't really make me think of biscuits, wild-garlic-smell makes me think of cycle paths on old railway lines and Seafield just reminds me of road in my parents village where the water treatment plant is. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8283#post-82752 Tue, 28 Aug 2012 09:37:36 +0000 kaputnik 82752@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Smell from Burton's can be delicious, but teasing if you're hungry. It's normally possible to tell if it's Nice biscuit day (coconut and sugar smell), Jammie Dodger day (jam smell) or Tofee Pop day (caramel and chocolate smells) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8283#post-82747 Tue, 28 Aug 2012 09:16:46 +0000 Min 82747@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>How about the all-pervading stink of motor fumes? Hard to smell anything else most times. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8283#post-82746 Tue, 28 Aug 2012 09:15:02 +0000 AKen 82746@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Sadly, if you go a wee bit further north-west from the biscuit factory you get the stench of the sheds from the battery chicken farm at Hermiston. Both the Novotel and the Premier Inn at Edinburgh Park are downwind from here. I assume guests have to keep their windows closed. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8283#post-82742 Tue, 28 Aug 2012 07:09:05 +0000 gembo 82742@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Must check that the biscuit factory features, the smell persists over much of SW Edinburgh but it is very pleasant. I say to myself when I smell it Frying Tonight</p> <p>It doesn't, I therefore think the whole thing smells a bit iffy to me (boys toilets in primary schools ????) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8283#post-82740 Tue, 28 Aug 2012 00:38:01 +0000 chdot 82740@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"<br /> Malcolm Chisholm Msp (@MalcolmChishol1)</p> <p>24/08/2012 10:56</p> <p>Useful meeting with Council officials about Seafield Sewerage Works. Scottish Water must certainly do more to deal with continuing problems<br /> " </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8283#post-82738 Mon, 27 Aug 2012 23:57:37 +0000 kaputnik 82738@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>There's a much bigger version of the Edinburgh sensory map <a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Crqo11VEwu4/TVz-2u_B-YI/AAAAAAAAAoA/BxYa10Q_r0g/s1600/Kate_McLean_smell.jpg">here</a>.</p> <p>It features;<br /> Sand, sea, beach<br /> Brewery malt fumes<br /> Alkaloid opiates manufactory<br /> Boys toilets in primary schools<br /> Fish &amp; Chip shops<br /> Zoo poo<br /> Cherry Blossom<br /> Newly cut grass<br /> Vomit</p> <p>The latter seems to be the most ubiquitous! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8283#post-82737 Mon, 27 Aug 2012 23:39:24 +0000 Claggy Cog 82737@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Very nice, if one was not visually impaired! I cannot see what is what on her illustration of Auld Reekie, one due to the pastel shades making the print illegible and two it being about 6pt in the picture. </p> <p>However, there is an overwhelming smell of excrement that emanates from Seafield and covers the whole of Edinburgh on some days. Also to the south of the city when muck spreading is going on in fields towards E Lothian/Midlothian the smell can be carried on the wind over the SE of the city. Nice!! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8283#post-82733 Mon, 27 Aug 2012 22:06:46 +0000 chdot 82733@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://m.scotsman.com/news/scottish-news/top-stories/map-is-worth-sniffing-out-1-2491230" rel="nofollow">http://m.scotsman.com/news/scottish-news/top-stories/map-is-worth-sniffing-out-1-2491230</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.sensorymaps.com/maps_cities/glasgow_smell.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.sensorymaps.com/maps_cities/glasgow_smell.html</a> (new)</p> <p><a href="http://www.sensorymaps.com/smells.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.sensorymaps.com/smells.html</a> </p>