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Message from a Dublin friend just now, "Good morning and welcome to Apocalypse Eireann". Ireland is Shut. They are planning an expedition to buy bread. (There probably won't be any bread.)
I walked to the Dean Village and back. Now in Caffè Nero watching cars fishtail round the corner from Hamilton Place.
There are about ten people in my section of the building at the moment. Almost no cars in the car park but there must be one or two as there were some tracks outside. No other bikes that I noticed on the racks, but a few others here and there on the way.
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Balwearie High (@BalwearieHigh)
01/03/2018, 9:06 am
good source of exercise and goodwill would be to go out and help anyone, old people in particular, clear paths etc
Mr Hand Higher pupils should refer to their group page on Edmodo for plans for work.
Mr Duthie's S3 should have complete all badminton sessions plans up to session 4
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Think that covers most things.
Saw a couple of hardy souls cycling in around the east end of
Fountainbridge, one of whom got a fishtail-ly, extremely revvy pass from an idiot drivist.
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Humza Yousaf (@HumzaYousaf)
01/03/2018, 8:35 am
Some news outlets reporting correctly that Red warning finishes at 10am - however, the do not travel advice is in place for the severe Amber weather warning until 6pm today! See below for areas affected.
Recovery continues. Plz follow @trafficscotland & @policescotland http://pic.twitter.com/zv7OZzkM0U
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The ONLY services running on the ScotRail network this morning are:
Aberdeen - Inverness
Aberdeen - Dundee
Inverness - Kyle of Lochalsh & Wick
Inverness - Perth
^CT
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I'd probably have made the effort to get into work in town just to go take photos, not going to the gyle for any reason!
Trams are running. Good old trams
Took me 3h40 to walk the 21km home yesterday, after all the trains died.
Happily I'd a) suspected this might happen, so was dressed in preparation for a hike and b) am now on holiday for ten days (which was the only reason I went in). Was very pleasant :)
I'm "working" from home.
Mr fimm has just left the flat with his cross-country skis, heading for the canal towpath.
well the red is over now :D
just as another blizzard hits crewe toll. been mostly sunny and plenty of cars around here ....
Last night was in Argyle Bar. Some Airbnb people with wheelie suitcase malfunction taking refuge. Walking is pleasant of course but we know that nurses (eg) have longer journeys to make.
Will the airport re-open? Vital of course as Ryanair have planes to fly! Trams and airport buses are only public transport on thus morning as flight crew and airport workers don't all drive.
Will the bike counter top 400 today? Humza says we should think twice before venturing.
Lothian buses were still going up Candlemaker Row last night till 7pm.
no eggs or bread left down the co-op
stocked up on beer instead
@bax :^)
good luck to you getting home later on !
Problem with wfh is run on biscuits instead of tea bigger problem is the kids broke into the biscuits before I woke up this morning and we are dangerously low. Not sure if thats a good enough reason to ignore the amber warning!
hmmm
"Amber warning extended until Friday morning
An amber weather warning for snow has been extended until 10am on Friday.
The red alert expired at 10am this morning but an amber warning for much of the country was due to run until 18:00.
The Met Office have now said conditions will be amber until 10am on Friday at least.
Amber: Be prepared for disruption. There is an increased likelihood of bad weather affecting you, which could potentially disrupt your plans and possibly cause travel delays, road and rail closures, interruption to power and the potential risk to life and property."
wfh today - kids going mental, escape to clear garden path, path cleared - nice job, snow starts again, more work arrives while out, just announced schools closed tomorrow, have ran out of milk. I've had better days.
@steveo - my philosiphy is hide biscuits everywhere in the house, then you never have that problem.
the other problem is you know there are biscuits in the house so you eat them
the ones hidden in the toilet u bend can get soggy though
@steveo time to start #nobiscuitMarch ?
At the Western with my wife yesterday had to plan our trip home to Dunbar like a military operation. First eliminate obvious routes - trains - nothing stopping at Dunbar. The trains were all running south, just Dunbar stop had been cancelled.
Then looking for buses, used Twitter to confirm Eastcoast Buses were still running to Dunbar. Got a taxi from WGH to Melville Street with a mad driver who sneakily passed us an Irish £5 note in our change.
At Melville Street the bus was waiting - hooray! Cheerful driver made all the difference, handed out sweeties all around while we were waiting for departure time. A slow but steady journey home. A1 was effectively one carriageway in either direction, but was plenty given so little traffic out.
Working from home today, with a break for quick snow shovelling.
Two hours after arriving I received a message saying not to travel into work today.
@paulmilne - Eastcoast Buses did well then. Part of Lothian which also stayed running to get people home last night.
Lothian Buses
Verified account @on_lothianbuses
25m25 minutes ago
11am update
Road conditions have not improved and our services will stay off for the rest of the morning.
We hope to have more info for you at lunchtime.
Thank for your patience.
Gorgeous walk along the NEPN. Snow ankle deep on the pavements.
A few doughty cyclists going SLOWLY. Pics here.
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1805847459460658&id=169099526468801
Working from home today after a bit of an adventure yesterday...
Red warning called at 12:30 yesterday, and so I send the staff who'd made it in home. My train's at 12:45, normally I'd make that from my office but I've got an injured leg at the moment (fun A&E story there) so it's now a 25 minute walk.
I leave at 1 and get to Haymarket at 25 past. Announcement goes out that the network is being shut down, and so I jump on the Aberdeen train which is the last train out of Dodge, and will at least get me to Kirkcaldy.
Checking Scotrail app, looks like I'll catch late train returning to Edinburgh from Kirkcaldy. Of course both trains meet at station, and no way I'm getting over in time with my gammy leg.
Looks like there's a 3pm train going back to Edinburgh which will stop at Burntisland, everything else cancelled, wait for that, it gets cancelled at 10 to.
I've already phoned Mrs B (we have a 4x4) who's on the way to turn back; from the train I could see the road from Kirkcaldy is strewn with abandoned cars. Facebook images confirm there's no way in or out of Burntisland
by car.
The few hotels I try to phone are full. Nothing for it then, I have to walk the 6 1/2 miles home from Kirkcaldy train station with a healing leg, but still with torn ligaments in my thigh muscle. Luckily it's not sore now, just really weak to the point where an enforced lie (fall) down occurs every now and again when I put pressure on it.
The walk through Kirkcaldy is OK, and then I get to the main A road between Kirkcaldy and Kinghorn, which is closed to traffic...
Luckily just after this a (hero) farmer is ferrying people back and forth along this road on the back of his pick up truck, so this saves me about a mile of walking. I've already had a 'lie' down 4 or 5 times by this point.
I finally get home after walking for 3 and 1/2 hours on my gammy leg, which is sore again today, sigh!
@steveo time to start #nobiscuitMarch ?
That'll be the day!
@baldcyclist hope you can get some rest for that leg of yours now and that you recover quickly
Made it! :)
Hardest going was getting out of Kirkliston, deep drifted snow in places and occasional tyre tracks which were actually even more difficult.
Burnshot Road was pretty good, some fairly compact tyre tracks and even occasional slushy tarmac. Spindrift and heavy headwind made it extremely slow, tough going. Glad of the morning espresso and muesli bar!
Cycle Path from the Burnshot underpass was largely OK, easier to stick to virgin snow than to try and follow footprints. Climb out of Cramond *just* defeated me, ironically after the gradient had eased, and also spun out on climb up from Barnton golf course.
Tried some 'north shore' riding skills by balancing precariously on one compacted car tyre track up Barnton Avenue, nice easy going but lots of concentration required.
Remainder of cycle path to McDonald Road was lumpy and broken up with footprints, so hard work but decent enough traction.
I'm sure studs would have made it a bit easier but my 32c Vittorias as 40psi seemed fine.
Almost want to make the most of the cold, dry snow conditions now as next week could be a gong show when it starts to thaw!
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