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Tour of Balerno

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  1. gembo
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    In tribute to the folk doing tour of the borders today, I tried Tour of Balerno which is a short route around the outlying mansion houses and castle as follows

    out Lang Whang (there is a Jacobean house but as not actually outwith the village I merely mention). Left up hill to temple house, buteland house to end of road at leith head farm track, turn around back down to buteland farm then right turn up to cockburnhill house then around the rigg and up quite steep but short beech avenue to Bavelaw castle. Turn round great descent báck to Balerno then along to glenbrook taking in Bankhead house and House of Cockburn. Back onto the Lang Whang and home to House of Gembo

    Very wet but goretex socks kept feet dry. Aldi jacket useless for rain but I was not cold. Hope the borders event which is considerably longer has been OK

    also would be laugh on a dry night to actually go in to all these gaffs with referendum leaflets as excuse for nosey/windup .

    mr IWRATS let us do it after work one evening? If sunny. I have particularly hilarious new leaflet from NoThanks where they say - the experts all agree....

    Expert 1 Jim Sillars (his no currency plan quote, that allegedly resulted I a death threat)
    expert 2 Ronnie MacDonald Prof of Econimics
    expert 3, err, isn't 1 and 2 enough?

    There should be an equally hilarious Yes leaflet.?

    Might need lights to get home at the end?

    Posted 10 years ago #

  2. I were right about that saddle
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    @gembo

    I was just thinking of the proposed but not seconded joint canvassing outing. I think it is still a good idea, and rattling the gates of Bavelaw Castle with a Yes flyer is a real temptation. I might get tea in the kitchen, you might get a sherry in the gun room? We could pool and share the drinks in the driveway on the way out.

    And in the interests of short tempered humourlessness I will insist that your accidental use of an a with an accent aigu (báck) constitutes either a fatal flaw in your argument or a fatal flaw in your ability to spell words in Occitan.

    Posted 10 years ago #

  3. gembo
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    Think there is a flaw in the argument that canvassing this nice to cycle area is likely to produce a No vote and that in the interests of parity we should pick a more mixed but less nice area to cycle about? My spelling in Occitan is also flawed.

    Posted 10 years ago #

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