Last Friday in Feb is 23rd, so is that the date or will it leak slightly to March 2nd (from a selfish perspective I'm hoping the later as I'm away 23rd).
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PY / not PY Feb18
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Posted 6 years ago #
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I support leaking because otherwise it will be ages between that and March PY (well, and also not about 23rd either as I have a German staying who won't be pleased if I make her get up before 9am).
Posted 6 years ago # -
I can do either day but illustrious leader prefers us to stick to the rules. No harm in both days being allowed? See if the cheery person who told us to stop ringing our bells is still there.
Posted 6 years ago # -
should it be March 2nd, I have an alternate venue to propose nr Usher Hall.
Posted 6 years ago # -
Seems fair, not PY and not last Friday of every month
Posted 6 years ago # -
I have an alternate venue to propose nr Usher Hall
LOL i expect many propositions have been thus articulated, over the past 400 years
* edit * ah perhaps this macabre subtext would take too long too unpack
bear in mind that the edinburgh of today is a simulacrum at best, and a panoptikum at worst
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@bax, I think I catch your drift (honi soit qui mal y Pense).
@iainmcr does the alternative allow bell ringing?
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'"Us" ringing "our" bells'?
Posted 6 years ago # -
@wingpig I'm afraid we are all branded as bell ringers by association in the eyes of the PY baristas
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I have an alternate venue to propose nr Usher Hall
Oman's is nowhere near the Usher Hall.
Posted 6 years ago # -
The new-looking small place on Grindlay St? There's parking at the Lyceum and outside Nando's.
Posted 6 years ago # -
Coletti & Co. They open at 0730 and there's space enough (based on the last half dozen PYs).
Lovely people own this place and I'd rather my money went there than on overpriced swedish buns (that's aren't even that nice - there I've said it!).
Midway between the Caley picture house and the Usher Hall. Loads of bike parking at U Hall.
Posted 6 years ago # -
I'm in. Though I actually like Soderberg buns I will have you know.
Posted 6 years ago # -
Was there a ruling on this: 23/02 vs 02/03 ?
I'm going to manage to escape from London a day earlier, so can attend either dates.
Would still like to try Coletti's
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No ruling, we can go both times. One to satisfy the purists - ie last Friday of every month BUT not always at PY
and
one for the rebels the next week, if Coletti's works then back there again. This Friday I could probably be there just shy of 8 a.m.
Posted 6 years ago # -
I vote do both so I can try this new venue.
Posted 6 years ago # -
Coletti's 55 Lothian Road - good on Trip advisor tho someone recently suggesting prices have gone up whilst plates have shrunk.
Posted 6 years ago # -
From another thread: @gembo THree nuns go into an electrical goods shop to buy a radio ----- TBC at Coletti's Friday
Tease.
Posted 6 years ago # -
@unhurt, it is clean, I would not want to start the Coletti scene with any bell ringing or smut
Posted 6 years ago # -
But how will you finish it?
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“I would not want to start the Coletti scene with any bell ringing or smut”
Well -
Posted 6 years ago # -
It's a traaap. The punchline is probably two trings on a bike bell then a long toot on an Airzound.
Posted 6 years ago # -
"these are a few of my favourite trings"?
I'm imagining gembo riding his 3-speed in a full nun's habit now. It's pretty glorious.
Posted 6 years ago # -
I have an old 'brrring! brrring' phone knocking around. It's covered in 30 years of grime so not pleasant to touch, less actually reconnect it as the house phone. I keep meaning to remove the critical components from it to make two mellifluous brass bicycle bells. Maybe I should nab the relay and hammer from it as well.
overpriced swedish buns (that's aren't even that nice…)
I quite like the ones with raspberry and a modicum of set custard, but one of those and a hot chocolate is nearly £6 now, which is FAR too much. The hot chocolate is passably good but I prefer bog standard Cadbury's in hot milk. Or even just hot milk.
Posted 6 years ago # -
"two mellifluous brass..."
electronically button-operated?
"...bicycle bells"Imagine the resonance you could get if you mounted two electrically-hammered bells to the shell of the torpedo.
I have an old camera cable release I keep looking at as a potential thumb-trigger mechanism for a bell so that I don't have to scrabble around for the pinger.
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The torpedo has a remotely-operated bell, using a piece of string tied between the pinger and the top of the steering. You pull the middle like you'd blow the whistle on a train.
Posted 6 years ago # -
I had always imagined that under the red torpedo's gleaming exterior there was an interior that wouldn't look out of place on a space craft. I'd imagined blinking lights and flat screens and lots of carbon fibre. Last week Arellcat said that it's got Sturmey Archer brakes (effective, I'm sure, but not exactly carbon fibre) and now we hear that the bell is operated by a piece of string. Please don't tell me that the string has a knot half-way along. That would just be too Heath Robinson and my illusions would be totally shattered. :-)
Posted 6 years ago # -
@Greenroofer see, this makes the torpedo even more pleasing to me. The string-bell hook-up is my favourite.
ETA oh, did I make an accidental The Wire reference?
Posted 6 years ago # -
true dat
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I'd imagined blinking lights and flat screens and lots of carbon fibre
There are several non-blinking lights on the control console, and the flat screen is present when I have my GPS with me, but I haven't done my Arduino computery thing yet.
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