I was sitting at desk in Waverley court and Microsoft office informed me I had fifteen minutes to make a meeting in Craigmillar. I gathered my stuff, hopped on council electric bike (ok I already had the jkeys for it) and zoomed up there. Last wee bit after Oman's pub I usually cut up the ginnel beside the former travellers site. Today there was a ped so I rang my bell and said excuse me sir. He told me I was on a footpath, I cycled on and rang bell at some school kids who were polite and enquired if my bike had a battery. On return to office I crossed the wasteland to avoid footpath and was hailed by a very large man who asked Ia that an electric bike? I said Aye.
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Electric dreams reach craigmillar
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Posted 8 years ago #
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I always lengthen my default Outlook reminder time but many do not, and I don't always remember to lengthen the reminder for things I've been booked into.
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Would have made the meeting on non-electric bike but would have been sweaty. (Well maybe couple of minutes lTe)The person who called the meeting was late as stuck in traffic
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There's a ginnel after Oman's? Oman's should replace Peter's Yard ginnel or not.
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Turn left at oman's, do not go in. Ever. N right thee is a brook side close, cul de sac the ginnel run's up from there t main drag of Craigmillar. Try to avoid the cairn tow junk yard dog. Big metal fences on eithe side of the ginnel as if there was something to Nick?
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Ginnel?
Same as a vennel?
Posted 8 years ago # -
@nelly yes alley
Entry seems the term off Royal mile
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"Entry seems the term off Royal mile"
Close surely?
Entry through an arch?
Then there are pends.
And wynds http://www.scotsman.com/heritage/people-places/scottish-word-of-the-week-wynd-1-2946400
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I'm happy for this to be the ginnel if we can settle on snicket for the railwayside path in Myreside.
@gembo
There is a mobilty scooter parked outside Oman's at all hours. Does the owner live there or did they go in for a pint and never emerge? The door is always open too, which is welcoming and yet...it is an establishment that radiates.
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You might refer to it as a ginnel. You might even, depending on where you grew up, know it as a gennel, a guinnel or a jennel; a yard, a 10-foot or a close; a chare, a chure or a chewar; a jitty, a jigger or an ennog.We called it a snicket.
"https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/may/01/wormhole-through-yorkshire-childhood
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The Royal Mile has Entries, Closes, Courts and Wynds. There are also some of those pretentious newcomers 'Streets' leading off it.
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Peter Stubbs' EdinPhoto website says:
CLOSE: An entrance to a tenement, also sometimes providing access to the rear of the building. There was often a gate at the front entrance which was closed at night.
COURT: A courtyard surrounded on all sides by buildings.
LAND: A tenement block of flats.
PEND: An archway.
VENNEL: A lane or passageway.
WYND: A thoroughfare, open from end to end.Thanks to the Oxford Dictionaries link, I now know why I've heard Ashy Path called a jitty, and why I've never heard the word used anywhere else or by anyone else.
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Never been in Omans strangely enough. But someone just told me it featured in a film with Peter Capaldi and Bing Hitler a few years ago.I assume it was not about Edinburgh's yuppies.
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I cycle close to Omans regularly but never been, I am now tempted. Some of the reviews are great:
- Take a crash helmet and gumshield.
- Great soup.
- Oman's is for the dregs.Did someone suggest it as a PY alt venue ??
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@Arrelcat
Chuckie Pend! Up there with Fly Walk.
@Iain McR
That was me. Me and Madame have been meaning to drop in there for a while. I wouldn't be hanging around for hours looking at people or anything, but I would have a pint.
Captain's Cabin, Clock Inn, Rob Roy....the list is shrinking.
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Busy Bee? Never has a fall out shelter been put to better use.
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We used to go into The Captain's Cabin (a.k.a. The Stabbin' Cabin, then renamed to The Marmion) after kayaking in Gracemount pool. It was often lively, but rarely threatening. I did once get a hard time from three old dears propping up the the bar for the crime of ordering a soft drink.
Then someone was shot and we stopped going. It's now a Tesco.
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Captain's Cabin was a supermarket too was it not? Sort of cash-only Argos.
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@iwrats - Yeah, had forgotten about that. We were offered all sorts in there. One evening we went in there was a lump of sweating cheddar the size of a breeze block sitting on a table at the door, complete with a knife to serve yourself and, with no hint of irony, a pint glass acting as an honesty box.
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"Sort of cash-only Argos."
I can imagine the sort of joint where cyclist goes in, takes a pint, goes out, bike gone. Goes in again next day on foot, offered bike back for £50.
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@iwrats, you might consider going to oman's for a laugh but please be careful you don't come back in stitches.
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@gembo
I consider myself duly warned. Madame has a studio round the corner from Oman's. Locals neutral as far as I can tell.
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@iwrats, yes locals range from very friendly through neutral to radge. Average is neutral.
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I can be at Omans @ 1800 2moro (Wed) if anyone fancies a pint and a fight.
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Best way to get into a fight is to play pool
Posted 8 years ago # -
Memory not what it was, but I thought The Cabin was knocked down and The Marmion rebuilt as a flat pack pub in its place?
I grew up in Gilmerton, and we couldn't go for an underage beer in the Cabin as we would have got a doing (because it was Grace mount)
Our drinking delights were in Newtoft street - primarily The Dykes.
An amazing place where we were served aged 14 or 15, drugs and stolen goods were openly dealt, funeral mourners from outside the area were fleeced in fixed poker games, and the area round the pool table was reserved for burglars and thugs.
It was an "interesting" place to do your growing up - I do recall my mum was disgusted that me and my mates would go there - I shudder to recall some of the goings on now.
It's a Domino's Pizza takeaway now - not sure which incarnation is more of a societal scourge!
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funeral mourners from outside the area were fleeced in fixed poker games
Fantastic line. Possibly the least CCE activity imaginable.
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@iwrats - your memory is correct, the Captains Cabin was knocked down and The Marmion was a new build. I'd always thought it was The Cabin when we first went but, looking at the pictures, I was never in the old building. We didn't start using Gracemount 'til the mid/late 90s.
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