My bin was frosted shut last night, but it's warm again this morning.
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"Severe weather warning"
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Posted 5 years ago #
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I have a severe germ warning in force and might get the bus because that wind yesterday was COLD, despite the allegedly mild air temperature.
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Oops, wrong thread. Distinctly non-severe weather today if a tad windy.
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Gales this pm
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That was fierce. Wobbled when bus passsed close, skidded on iron man hole cover and took care on very fast and bulbous thick yellow turned into small ridge or esker bu the roads dept. Lethal
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Bridge was closed. Driver was waiting in fun bus for me - it really is a brilliant service.
Almost came a cropper as there is a nasty wind funnel as you emerge from the shelter of the hill between the bridge and Ferrytoll. Had talked to the driver about it, knew it was coming and it still nearly got me.
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Savage head wind as young chap remarked as we huddled at traffic lights
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I decided to get the train rather than waiting for the bridge control to send someone over for me. I made it up the Brae in NQ with a whole minute to spare. It was wild but very mild. 12 degrees on my gizmo.
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I probably ought to have put my Brompton on the bus home, but was too cheap, and instead went to Shawfair and cycled home along the path to Roslin.
Crikey. I could barely pedal into the wind in bottom gear, and was having to do so riding one-handed while holding onto my hat with the other hand. Eventually it occurred to me to wear my hat in the more hairodynamic manner of back to front, innit, cos i iz happenin, man. I think the six or so miles took me about 40 minutes. The only shelter was around the back of the old Ramsay bing at Loanhead.
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You guys are either very brave, very committed or very something else. Wind speed on the FRB usually feels 20mph more than anything on dry land. And it's ALWAYS directly in your face. Although granted it was positively roasting tonight.
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@cocoshepherd
I trust the bridge guys to get it right- if they measure a gust of over 45 or 50, they close the bridge, and each time they've done it I've been glad. Every time they've left it open I've been fine cycling. You can just ride to the bridge and see what they've decided.
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I wasn't man enough for the challenge of even getting to the bridge tonight. Wimped out and got the train. Now feeling very inadequate in such company...
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@CocoShepherd, I like to ride at least one day a week and today was the only day I could manage. Normally I would have shifted to the train instead.
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Last night I had to wheel the bike over M8 at Gogar Station Rd path/pavement as the wind kept throwing me onto the railings (glad there are railings there).
As I was entering the factory this morning:
Colleague: "Good morning, Bill*. Are you drookit?"
Me: "Yes, I am"Very heavy rain at 7am, had to squint to see anything. The wind on Ratho hill was still just as strong as last night.
*That might have not been the name that they used.
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Forntantely wind has dropped but a bit wet and very warm. Loads of twigs, branches and even a tree on the riverside path between Whitecarig and Musselburgh - exciting/scary in the dark. My mind wandered off, thinking what probability distribution might fit to the size of the fallen wood - truncation was a definite component (I did get my jacket at that point).
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Went with shorts, waterproof socks, normal shoes, no galoshes, merino base layer and rain jacket.
Wind behind.
A little bit wet only
another user of the building sometimes races me from Grassmarket/Tollcross to office. they overtook me in the Cowgate [i like to go v slow through that rat run] But i pulled a fast one at st mary st
2-1 to her now in these little races.
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@bill*
The correct response to 'Are you drookit?' is 'Aye, fair seepit.'
I got blown across Nicolson Street towards the Greenmantle pub. Luckily nothing coming the other way. Proceeded home distinctly sideways.
*Possibly not your name
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Snow is cold, rain is wet
as Carole King (probably not her real name) once observed with some degree of accuracy
In the late 1980s I drank in The Greenmantle and the publican used to sweep the ash out of the ashtrays with a paint brush.
Also there was some big machine in the ceiling that used to click every five mins or so but did not seem to serve any other function.
Glad you were not blown back by such strong winds to 'Mantle 1987 very dull.
The whole area is devoid of a good bar.
The Pear Tree which has not had a sympathetic makeover, blew them all out of the water?
I was in the Southsider before Bat for Lashes, it has improved since Nirvana famously played there. Unlike many, I am not going to pretend I was there.
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nirvana played in the southern, gembo-san
kurt wanted paying up front via a wrap
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@gembo
I drank in the 'Mantle too. Late eighties. After squash at the Pleasance. Missed the clicker-counter in the roof.
The Pear Tree has killed itself with the makeover. I was a regular at the quiz around 2004. We were The Modern Athenians, now scattered to the four winds.
Nearest decent boozer now the Auld Hoose after its Metal-influenced semi-hipster makeover from locals' dive.
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The Blind Poet also seems to have closed.
Dagda is very decent, used to be Proctors(?) in the 90's.
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I was banned from Proctor's in the early nineties for singing a duet.
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Sorry bax-san - the same pub (wrong name) has had gastro makeover. Fine. Proctors with their SER gas fire was sh1t but they do say Dagda different.
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Pear Tree? As I recall it was full of crustafarians and dogs on strings. Beer was okay, and reasonably priced, but the place was not very clean.
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@crowriver, only really drank in it 1984-1990. Cleanliness in pubs at the time was low. Except in the green mantle where ashtrays swept by paintbrush.
The smoking ban has led to pubs becoming cleaner for sure. Smoke hid a lot of dirt and also smoke was a lot of dirt
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Wild night for the big sleep out
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Frequented Pear Tree between 1990 and about 1996 I think. Early nineties was crusty central, pub was dirty, bare boards, counter very worn out. Among the regular clientele DMs, dreadlocks and ripped jeans de rigeur. Aroma of stale beer, rollups, hash and patchouli oil . Beer garden full of dogs, especially lurchers and wolfhounds. At the time it was a staging post for my crowd rather than somewhere to stay long.
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pear tree got redux when they put warsteiner on draught, that was a canny move
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I think the pear tree was cleaner prior to 1990 and subsequent to 1996. @crowriver, you appear to have frequented it during its dirtiest phase.
The gin palace round the corner down the street is quite clean.
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Madame IWARTS has a number of inviolable principles. One is her method of attaching clothes to the washing line. She refuses to alter this in the face of Scottish weather.
I'll go and pick everything up when I've finished my coffee.
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