http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/portobello-beach-man-police-fears-for-safety-1-3347317
Cycling??
Well yes - he's often spotted (easy with a green beard) on bike with trailer and piano tuning advert.
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"Portobello beach man: Police fears for safety"
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Posted 10 years ago #
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Oh dear. I hope he gets the care he needs. You break your leg and an ambulance turns up - your brain goes wrong and the police turn up.
Posted 10 years ago # -
I'm surprised it's legal to camp on the beach. But if it is and he's of sound mind then I say good on him for refusing to be forced into someone else's normality.
Posted 10 years ago # -
The authority responses have been sensitive. Hope his tent is well pegged down. I met him a couple of months back and had good chat.
Posted 10 years ago # -
What's the council tax band on a tent?
There was a thing a while back in the chipwrapper where some Polish guys were sharing a big tent on some wasteground as they tried to scrape together money for a flat, however local yoofs had got wind of it and were harrassing them / stealing their stuff.
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Ah, seared into the Scottish mentality is the knowledge that the space between the low and high tide lines is one of the few places you can live without anyone's permission in the UK. It's where the Highlanders went after the clearances and before they got shipped out.
Gets a bit damp at the spring and autumn equinoxes.
An old neighbour of mine tried to set up a house on some waste ground behind the house when his partner kicked him out. He ended up in the Royal Ed after I called the council (not interested) and the police (interested but not well equiped to help). This sounds all too similar.
Posted 10 years ago # -
Spring equinox this Friday. Ben advertises as the underwater piano tuner.......
Definitely someone living for long time in waste ground at roseburn - we spotted ongoing activity the day we went to crammond via the NEPN.
Posted 10 years ago # -
@Iwrats, Judging by the photos he's above the high tide line. Isn't it just he mean high tide though and presumably you can live anywhere below it or does the right stop when the sea starts?
Does it belong to the Queen still?
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@acsimpson - I read that the space between the tide lines belongs to no one, which is why disposesed crofters could take refuge there. Below the low tide line belongs to the Crown...for the moment, though we can vote to end that in September.
I'm all for letting people live their lives, but let's hope someone's keeping an eye out in case this gentleman drifts into the realm of the unwell.
Posted 10 years ago # -
He could become a piano tuna fish soon if he doesn't take care.
Posted 10 years ago # -
Well that'll help him find middle sea.
Posted 10 years ago # -
I would say 'liminal' more appropriate in his circumstances and location.
Good luck to him. Now his plight is in the chipwrapper the local neds will be on his case.
Posted 10 years ago # -
During one of his drug-assisted agoraphobic phases, Brian Wilson had a sandpit built in the middle of his house and his piano placed inside it so he could feel the sand in his toes as he composed.
Posted 10 years ago # -
One of the most delightful feelings available to humanity is to walk barefoot in hot dust. Not sand, but dust - the kind you find on mediterranean farm tracks.
Posted 10 years ago # -
Oh goodness, the council spokesperson (or SpokesMan, it being the EEN) used the phrase "reach out". They plan to "reach out" to him.
The word Urgh springs to mind.
Posted 10 years ago # -
Better than planning to section him
Posted 10 years ago # -
I hope someone reaches out to me if I ever wind up in his situation and I hope he's able to accept if someone reaches out to him.
No man is an island, entire of itself. Every man is a piece of the continent, part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea Europe is the less.
Posted 10 years ago # -
Nice sentiments IWRATS
I am just wondering if you have found a way of expressing a No vote positively? I know it says Europe but the sentiment might be the same? John Donne might have stood with David Bowie and Eddie Izzard?
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Although in the event of a 'No' vote we're quite likely to end up with Europe being the less anyway - once the Tory/UKIP Euro referendum takes place.
And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
Posted 10 years ago # -
sorry to derail the thread but Tories would have to win next UK election. Clearly the budget attempting to win back Tories from UKIP but UKIP could split Tory vote in 2015...? Tricky for independent Scotland to remain in EU according to Jose Manuel Barroso, so maybe we will be an island? We could form an alliance with England, Wales and Northern Ireland as European countries not in the EU??
Posted 10 years ago # -
"sorry to derail the thread"
Continue here - http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11722&page=10#post-144512
Posted 10 years ago # -
@IWRATS: "middle sea"
Ha. And a quote from John Donne?
Posted 10 years ago # -
@Cyclingmollie
I've always figured that Donne was a roadie. At least I think he was presaging transfusion type shenanigans when he wrote;
"...our two bloods mingled be. Thou know’st that this cannot be said a sin, nor shame...."
Posted 10 years ago # -
That's a great close reading. I'm pretty sure sure Marvell was an Audaxer. "I by the tide of Humber would complain" was just a bad patch on the York Arrow.
Posted 10 years ago # -
*baffled* At what point did "man, thrown out by wife, finds new love interest" become news?
Robert
Posted 10 years ago # -
If it is a low news day the EEN can always go check out Ben in his tent.
Posted 10 years ago #
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