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IT’S TRUE!
CCE is 15years old!
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Would be happy to meet at the Bridge Inn.
The canal - Ratho - Ratho Station - path to Dalmeny - NCN1 - Roseburn - is a favourite ride of mine.
@Stickman - all part of the flood defences, about which I am disgracefully ill-informed. It may have a positive outcome ultimately - but we'll never get that lilac hedge back.
I hope positive appreciation has been expressed/tweeted to those responsible?
@sallyhinch
Thanks for the prompt. I have just love bombed them.
@iwrats: who did you contact? I'd like to express my gratitude as well....
Presume CEC involved(?)
Sustrans money too(??)
Did anyone get a photo? I'd like to put something up on the Spokes Facebook page.
Chances are it was something to do with the house builds that was to re-surface the path in that area.
I was on a few days ago when it was dusky and there are fancy solar lighting on it on the approach to the paths that lead into the housing estate, red as you approach the junction and green over the junction.
In ref to the Bridge Inn stops, is there not some monthly last Friday of the month lemonades ;0) gathering goes on over summer months.
FYI - work is still going on west of the Gogar Bank bridge, you may be confronted by (or have to get the driver's attention to pass from behind) mini road rollers.
Don't know if I just caught this section at an incomplete stage, and it will transmogrify into a nice surface, but they just seemed to be 'surface dressing' it in the way that means there'll be loads of loose stone on top for ages to come.
We did thank one of the hard-hatted engineers for their efforts.
Does the tarmac extend right up to the climbing centre? Making a (vertical) detour there tonight on the way back into Edinburgh..
@ivan yes. It gets a bit muddy just beyond there.
Scottish Canals are leading on this with £92.5K funding from CEC to match a larger contribution from Sustrans (total value = £270k).
There's nice new tarmac on the canal towpath from the Almond aqueduct out to Broxburn (and possibly beyond). It was still fresh enough to be beading water last Friday. Heading towards Edinburgh it was a rude awakening to discover it stopped with the cobbles and mud as soon as the CEC boundary was reached.
I assume this was a combination of Scottish Canals, West Lothian Council and Sustrans. I wonder how long it will take to complete the link from Ratho to the Aqueduct.
I cycled that route 3 weeks ago, is a bit muddy but still not too bad, it’s the bit past Broxbourne that gets so rocky and bumpy that badly need improvement gave up at Linlithgow and took the road last time I took that route
I took a friend along to Broxbourne & she was bumped off! Got heartily sick of the canal at that point.
Will say for that stretch though, you do have a great wildlife corridor - very flowery in the summer.
Combined with improvements to the Forth & Clyde canal last year, the Edinburgh Glasgow canal route may be getting to the stage soon where a mountain bike is not required...
Re wildlife/botany, the wild garlic to the West of Winchburgh is wonderful. A welcome distraction on those many spring mornings when I didn't want to head straight to work...
I took a friend along to Broxbourne & she was bumped off
Life is cheap in the badlands of Broxburn
Its all fishing rods and tea flasks as far as Winchburgh
but after that, snipers and rifles abound
Broxbourne sounds tranquil
@bax - Yes - couldn't drag her body home so had to heave it into the canal. I got the bike back home though.
i lived up Kingsknowe one time
My south side gf said it was so far west that it might as well be Glasgow
Fair point... so where does Glasgow start ?
I'd say Shandon but that would upset the Harrison Park mafia
Dalry is a likely candidate
Its deffo the weeg before you hit Stenhouse
50 per cent of the residents of saughton are weegee (HMP)
Ah gembo-san
My flatmate at the time was quartermaster of the store in Saughton HMP.. Scenes, as they say..
Also recall attending G8 internment protest at the front gate while it was guarded by a ring of cops from the Met
Surreal madrid
Bax, when I worked in that jug all the cons had terrible scalp conditions so they could get coal tar shampoo on prescription instead of having to buy vosene from the store. The eggs in that quartermaster store would gie Ye bandy legs. The fish man of saughton had also invented a simulated monsoon season where he gradually reduced the water in the tank and turned the heat up then eventually filled it all back up in a oner causing the fish to breed rapidly. He then moved out of the big house and got a job at Stirling uni.
Wrights coal tar soap is just chemicals and palm oil now
Vosene also went way downhill, is just diluted palm oil
i'm on the beer & baynut soapbar these days
3 in 1 organic action
According to daily mail online, poly tar shampoo was in short supply in 2014 with a £2 bottle selling for £21 on Amazon BECAUSE OF THE EU.
Vosene with the funny twisty cap nozzle is a huge childhood memory after swimming on Thursday nights at glengarnock pool followed by the chicken soup from the drinks machine with I the sludge at the bottom of the cup
That shampoo bar looks good.
well now if you are game to take the plunge
i reckon you can probably get 10% off at checkout with vouchacode SHAMPOOSAMPLE
not affiliated, just a happy customer doing his bit to save the gibbons of indonesia
speaking of which
have you seen the gibbon taking the vernacular out of the tigers ?
respect is surely due
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