I'd say one of 'us' is behind this seditious piece;
http://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2018/01/12/edinburghs-being-destroyed-by-developers/
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These old Victorian public schools built because of the threat from Prussia that was educating it's working classes look quite sturdy still, though their roofs often not in best Nick. Or maybe 'Nik. Still one or two of them not yet sold for flats. Council often sells to lowest bidder (if that bidder hasn't linked planning permission to their bid). My old office which was a villa gifted to the authority went for twice one of those schools but was close to JK's house. One or two others sitting with low numbers and indeed several new build high schools under occupied.
Similar story with old churches, old swing pools and we, old prisons
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“old swing pools and we”
Ooh you do have a way with words.
Opaque too.
And bizarrely suggestive.
Posted 7 years ago # -
Fecking predictive text
Should have read
Old swimming pools and err, prisons
Drumsheugh and Arlington in Glasgow both private member's baths and both gave trapezes though no one swinging on the trapeze. Swinging elsewhere? Who can say
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There was a trapeze over the pool in the Drones Club was there not what what?
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@IWRATS, the drones had a pool? I thought they just chucked bread rolls at each other?
Perhaps you can explain why Gembo a wee nyafff who went to the Johnstone high loves the Jeeves stories of Wodehouse. Less keen on blandings or his Nazi sympathies
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@gembo
Because they are written by someone who loves both life and language? Because Jeeves and Bertie are the oddest odd couple in literature? Because in your heart you believe yourself to be an Edwardian buck about town?
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@IWRATS two out of three ain't bad
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I'm not sure about £300K flats being described as "luxury" the flat I used to live in is valued at £295K these days but I wouldn't describe it as "luxury". It's perfectly nice, and well situated in Dean Village, but it's a bog standard three-bedroom flat in a block built about 25-30 years ago. Nice outlook from the sitting room but a poky kitchen and the third 'bedroom' was, well, you wouldn't have got much more than a bed in to it (I used it as an office).
I've long had my doubts about conversions of non-domestic property. Ever since I saw this on an online estate agent's site, in fact:
(And in case you're wondering, not that's not a photoshop job, it was a genuine photo which was supposed to attract punters. The web page is still online here if you don't believe me.)
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My sides are actually hurting
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Oh, they really did not think that through. Just banged on with the conversion.
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It's taken me 24hours and a second look at this to realise what @ejstubbs had against this conversion.
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@Greenroofer I spotted the awfully patterned sofa straight away.
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@greenroofer, you can't NOT see it now and it is nearly the only thing you see apart from as @jdanp says, the sofa.
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Am I the only person who'd be quite comfortable with that window? Used to be a standard decorative motif back in the day.
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Similar motifs adorning entire hillsides in Englandshire.
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Romans liked to make models and put wee wings on them.
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@Dougal
Cerne Abbas? I had a snooze on that one fine summer's day.
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Not just England.
For example there's a particularly well-shaped sitka plantation near Abington which makes me snigger every time I go down the West Coast on the train.
You can see it from the motorway too but the view is not quite so good.
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@MediumDave - did you know there is an M74 penis tree appreciation society:
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i remember seeing something about Disney artists (and the rest) try and get some penis shaped motif in every movie / cartoon they draw- its like an insider joke.
i'll try and find it when not at work computer (!!!)Posted 7 years ago # -
'The Cock Of The North' - Planted in 1874 as a phallic symbol to the English invaders, the M74 Penis Trees are a true icon of Scottish culture.
Featuring in a number of the lesser-known Burns works, they sit resplendent on the south face of Tewsgill hill.
Now I'm no historian, but there is some considerable date confusion there.
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Maybe that's "lesser-known Burns" and not "lesser-known works"?
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@earthowned I did not and I -- wholeheartedly -- approve
This almost makes me want to join Facebook...
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Lollipop?
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