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TransPentland Manoeuvres In The Dark?
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Posted 6 years ago #
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I'll bump this thread a bit closer to the time, but meanwhile: cool! Now to propitiate the gods of clear skies and light winds. Can anyone lend me some wicker and a virgin policeman?
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What happens if it's cold, I get lost, my lights stop working, I get hungry, I fall in a river, I have a puncture, I get scared, I break my chain, I can't get a phone signal, there are mice, I'm not quick enough, I stay in Flotterstone and get Blotterstone, I get night terrors, I have a bad hair day, there's a ghost, I forget my lip balm, the sheep won't stay still, the clouds are odd, or something smells weird?
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With an owl.
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@Iwrats I don't like the way you seem to have found a way to access my mental checklist of Things To Worry About. Though you missed out Noone Has Any Fun And They All Secretly Hate Me Afterwards. And that one is my favourite!
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you missed out Noone Has Any Fun And They All Secretly Hate Me Afterwards
Do other humans have emotions? Why are they of any consequence to you?
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a sunday night, there is a chance of a chinese buffet at the Grey Horse!
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This route as a daytime walk that ends in a pub is in th Manchester guardian travel section. The pub is the grey horse of Balerno. In a curious turn of events.
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Now it's 2018 a wee reminder for Sunday 28th: The coffee & cake van will be open at Harlaw visitor centre: a useful assembly point? Round the reservoirs, up the Avenue & along the Green Cleuch is c. 7 miles, so for daylight outbound suggest a 14:45 assembly time. Pint & crisps in Flotterstone Inn, then back to Balerno to meet gembo in the Grey Horse.
(@Bill, @Sheeptoucher has been told to persuade you to come!)
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Is this then our intended route, Group Captain?
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Out and back via green cleuch makes sense. Maiden's cleugh was a river this morning.
In green cleugh just past the waterfall the burn is high but this can be forded en Velo.
Had we tried this yesterday the pop up Folk Club in The a Grey Horse would have caused some bother. I went in for a fly half and to ask why the pub appeared in the guardian Recntly. They are none the wiser. CAMRA Published the book of UK walks that end in pubs but why the grey horse made it into such exalted company as The Talbot Arms in North Yorks or The Cheshire Cheese in The Peaks. The best Ian the barman could come up with was the journalist put a pin in the book? You could not say he/she was trying to distribute the walks around the UK as fifth after the Grey a Horse is Traquair House and the Bridge Inn Peebles.
Ian also designed the new bar (and restaurant) which has transformed the place. Including a women's loo that women are willing to use.
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That's it, cheers. Approach as you wish - @Steveo may wish to ride straight up something horrible first.
Now going to stick some gold braid to a hat...
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tally-ho
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Need to swap my Gatorskins for something a little grippier. Hope it thaws in the next couple of weeks!
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A late and rather delectable Winterval present means that I can no longer attend this outing.
I might make it to the pub after.
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You're taking delivery of an ENORMOUS block of nice cheese that morning and will have to eat your way out, right?
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Tickets to Celtic Connections. Guest appearance by Danny Macaskill? Intriguing. Quite possible he's a musician?
The cheese hoard came early. Irish this year. Maturing nicely.
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Are the milk carton kids playing Celtic Connections, - they are American and basically the everly bros. I dig a version of White Girl the Johnny cash number. And thought, I doubt they cross the Atlantic only to discover they had played Celtic Connections twice in the past.
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@unhurt
That's the very thing right there. Most intriguing. If the TransPentland works (and it will) then it will be repeated, yes?
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Assuming @steveo doesn't abandon me to the ravening Beast o' the Black Hill, I'd hope yes.
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Oh, you've met my youngest... :D
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ha!
Btw is it just us both and a possible @ARobComp? And maybe @sheeptoucher - he SAID he might come - plus probable @gembo in the Grey Horse
with the candlestickafter.Posted 6 years ago # -
Only gotcha from me will be if its properly frozen, I've not got studded tyres and the tarmac path from the Howe down is a total ice rink when its cold.
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I'm wondering whether to awaken my vintage Stumpjumper from its slumbers for this. Needs pretty much everything bolted back on again, plus a spell at the Cycle Service to sort the headset which was a mil' or two too much on the steerer stack height to work reliably before.
In my mountain biking days I often did Bavelaw Castle to Green Cleugh to Loganlee to Glencorse, then up the Kirk Burn path to the top of Allermuir and Caerketton, then either down next to the fence of Hillend Hill, or Fala Knowe to Castlelaw and back into town along the A702.
I did it once in the evening; it's quite
entertainingscary when your high power lighting rig is a single Ever Ready Night Rider, you're standing on the top of Allermuir at 10pm wondering what the hell you're doing, and your map is at home.Posted 6 years ago # -
Do it! Though it'll be less up-and-down than your old route. But much harder to get lost on the low road.
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"I've not got studded tyres"
shouldn't that be in the 'confessions' thread?
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Are people actually strong enough to cycle to the top of Allermuir and Caerketton? I run up there regularly but...no way could I cycle the last hundred metres.
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Jarl , Drygate, Norseman Summer Ale (what) and a Wynter Ale all on the draught in the grey horse when I popped in for a tonic water this afternoon
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