Been crazy busy with stuff. I was meant to be in Edinburgh last Tuesday for an SQA and blind school meeting but they cancelled.
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MMW cycle counter on line!
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Posted 9 years ago #
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Welcome back.
You appeared to 'disappear' some time in September...
Hope you'll be bringing your whole school to PoP.
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Too much paperwork. I'm already doing a long weekend on Arran and a day trip to Blackpool. I better nip over to the winter tyres thread and mention the Schwalbe Winters on a Brompton.
September means you missed my tour of important London landmarks like this:
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Nice pick, we had a thread a while back that I tried to end with stating Mornington Crescent but that did not work so awhile later I tried Morningside Crescent which was a success.
Just finished a Stella gibbons Novel called The. bachelor set in wartime St albans which has an end sequence involving Morningside Crescent tube station still in operation.
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It is in operation now. There was a period when it was closed or part time but it re-opened in '98.
The building across the road to the west is in a mock Egyptian style and was built as a cigarette factory. It now houses a cancer charity which has some nice karma.
Other interesting things I've done since September include hacksawing though an Abus cable lock following the key snapping after I'd been to see Madness at the Hydro in December. I had to leave the bike and sprint up to the train station. I didn't have time to go back for a couple of days. I was the only person at the gig wearing a black Fez. I wanted to go in a Trilby or Pork Pie but was out voted.
Number 2 son got a pre enjoyed folding Twenty for his 12th birthday in November. Thank you Glasgow Common Wheel.
I mended a puncture outside Brenda's house while wearing a Saltire on my head and was the only person to take heed of the No Cycling signs in the Greenwich tunnel.
Planning to have an explore of the Regent's Canal the next time I'm down at number one son's manor.
Number 3 son is obsessed with Canada and number 4 has taken to singing the title track of Madness' Liberty of Norton Folgate album.
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Did not know it had come back into operation. Think it was out for quite some time which I always took to be the point of the game Mornington crescent, if there is a point. There is also a very good belle and Sebastien track called Mornington Crescent.
I think there are a few more brompton's scooting about embra these days. And maybe two or three moultons.
Our work Brompton has been fixed so now all I need is an IKEA bag and I can take it on the tram. Feels like a kind of summer holiday sort of an escapade. Office to tram stop. Tram stop to gyle. Err, do something at Gyle then return could take less than an hour
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I visited Camden market when I was in London last year, had a heart attack at what people will charge for a small portion of tablet (maybe it's exotic and foreign down there?) and walked to Mornington Crescent Station (indirectly, of course). I sat and wrote postcards in a park nearby.
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It's only a Summer Holiday if you have some lovely girls along to do the cooking and one of them is dressed up as a boy. The IKEA bag works OK but tends to tear where the clamps and other sharp bits contact it.
The SQA will need to re-schedule the meeting pronto as it was about modifying exams for VI pupils and that's done around March so I will be in our nation's capital soon and able to once more savour slides and narrows of outrageous tram lines.
Number one son lives in Whitechapel and sometimes gets a kilogram of tablet to take south. I don't think he sells it but it's popular at parties.
I got to Mornington Crescent from Whitechapel via St Pancras and King's Cross. That morning I was looking for things which had changed since I lived there. It's getting on for 30 years ago and most of it is the same. The Kilburn house I stayed in is boarded up and being redeveloped.
The following day I had to dump the car at an NCP in the Isle of Dogs so I took the Greenwich tunnel under the river, went east alongside the dark mud of the Thames and caught the Woolwich ferry back to the north of the river. I had been planning to have a look at the barrier but a WPC on the river side told me I couldn't go any further as there had been an incident. I asked her if she knew how I could get to the ferry and she had never heard of it. It's free but has a lot of big artics on it and no place for bikes.
I managed to see the two part Wickham's in Mile End and flagged down a burning bus. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickhams_(department_store)
Having a smart phone on the handlebars is great. I can launch out into the city and have it guide me home later. I'd find my way eventually but the phone often finds more interesting routes. When I went to pick up the car it sent me alongside the Limehouse section of the Regent's canal which was lovely, even on an October evening.
On the Saturday afternoon a nudie man walked towards us on Oxford St, just east of the Circus. The memsahib never noticed but she did spot the Policemen's helmets chasing after him.
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We made tablet yesterday for the first time. Going very quickly.
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I didn't make it for years because my mum got a ceramic hob which turned off and on so you didn't get it boiling properly. The memsahib found out I could make it and now gets me to do a batch for school fetes and her big boy. His English girlfriend likes it too.
Make sure to beat it. A lot. If you don't it turns out more like toffee. I cheat and use a thermometer for the temperature measurement.
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The best commercially available tablet comes from the muddy puddles farm shop of balmalcom in Fife. The farmer makes it.
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i followed this recipe, but used a blend of golden caster sugar (1/3) and demerara (2/3), and slightly less condensed milk than was called for : http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2014/jan/22/how-to-make-perfect-tablet-recipe
Flavour seems to be good and texture is - i think - spot on : firm, but smooth, not granulated.
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We made tablet yesterday for the first time. Going very quickly.
Too much sugar tends to do that to people. :-)
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Only if they have a defective pancreas.
I use the Glasgow Cookery book recipe. It doesn't use condensed milk just sugar, milk, butter, golden syrup and vanilla. I use unsalted butter but that's the kind I've got anyway for bread making.
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back on topic...MMW counter went over 30000 ytd sometime yesterday.
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Anyone else not seeing any statistics for most of our cycle counters?
http://www.bicyclecounter.dk/BicycleCounter/BC_Statistics.jsp
Partial data returned for Stirling and Perth, but that seems about all.
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Interesting discussion / analysis here:
http://zenbikermaniac.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/a-review-of-scottish-bike-counters.html
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The Mid Meadows Walk counter is going to hit 100k sometime in the early hours!
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yay. 100 500 and something when i went past.
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It was at just under 100,200 a little before half eight this morning. Hopefully the next 100,000 will be rather quicker to accumulate compared to the 2 2/3 months that 100k took. Pedal on Parliament will certainly be a help!
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Note to PoP - worth having a volunteer take the "before and after" readings on the counter to get a good estimate of participation?
Posted 9 years ago # -
it can't cope if more than 2 bikes go over at the same time.
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@SRD - some Edinburgh council chicanery can sort that out!
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The counter was 'stuck' showing 107 as the daily total last night and this morning, but the online statistics seem fairly normal - presumably it is a display issue, which I have now reported to @SustransScot on Twitter.
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The only visible effect of reporting the broken cycle counter to Sustrans a few weeks ago is that it's now off.
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Indeed, which is a shame, but it's just a broken display:
http://www.bicyclecounter.dk/BicycleCounter/BC_Scotland_BC1.jsp
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Oh well. Nice to know it's still counting us, anyway.
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At this time of year it really should be working as it make a clear statement about the City. The statement that it is currently making is that the City of Edinburgh Council doesn't really care...
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@Kim I made that point when I contacted Sustrans. I have tried sending a follow up email so will see what results.
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"The statement that it is currently making is that the City of Edinburgh Council doesn't really care"
Though in this case presumably it's still under guarantee and presumably manufacturer/installer have been told.
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