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(14468 posts)- Started 13 years ago by recombodna
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I thought it was Bruce I saw. I was busy approving of your sensible early evening lighting(my German-legal dynamo efforts agreed with you that it was gloomy enough and had turned on automagically) when I heard the reverse Spot.
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Someone said hello to me on MMW this morning, or maybe to the person in front. I was in cycling mode so slow to recognise speech/faces/etc so hello back, whoever you were.
Also to friendly Roibeard who I've now waved at two days in a row. Makes for an altogether cheerier journey to work.
@chdot is that a cactus in the Give Way triangle in your pic? A Norse rune?
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Chdot I see you spotted my new van .....
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@chdot. Ah. So it's either black magic or preparations for the canal-to-innocent link.
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Similar markings on tarvit st and valley field. Tarvit is intended for work, but consultation not yet started. Pretty sure nothing is planned for valley field.
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And Home Street.
"So it's either black magic or preparations for the canal-to-innocent link"
Black magic then. I've had a denial on the second option.
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Is Laidback on holiday? ;-)
This was at the Lago d'Iseo between Milan & Verona.
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Seen similar marking outside Homebase on St Leonards. Looks like USB logo, maybe we're getting roadside charging points? :-)
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Seen a belt driven singlespeed on my commute home tonight. Looked impressive and made me want one.
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Uberooblebuce recognised me first. (I kept going as I'm supposed to be attacking the garden whilst it's still light.) Was DaveC wearing a yellow anorak this morning? A strange man asked me if I was going straight on along London Road.
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@recombodna
I was been behind you tonight - was doing some remonstrating on strathearn place with a chap who tried to kill me pulling out of Clinton Road.
Lovely chap, apologised. Shame he was blind!
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Gembo, this morning on Gorgie Road just passing Fords Road. I was waiting for a gap to pull out. (In disguise as driver with car full of children)
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Ah, in strange return to my old haunts I was heading down that way then up over ravelston dykes to blackhall. From there into town quick spin round the office then off to rap loch in Stirling then back to Edinburgh park, dodging the rain in halfords then up to juniper green then home via Balerno high school for d of e video which was quite funny but now I am tired
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@Nelly
Give me a wave next time :-)I was probably moving massive sofa number 4 at that time. Just got in after a 5 massive sofa day.......sofa so good eh??? I"ll get my coat.........
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I reckoned you were a good guy when I saw the "cyclists stay awesome sign".
Just clicked when I saw chdots photo above.
p.s. 5 sofas? Your back must be in better shape than mine :-)
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@bodna are massive sofas back in fashion?
I once did a home visit in the oxgangs area where the sofa was too big for the room, not in an aesthetic sense but in the sense you had to climb over it to get in or out of the room. On the plus side, once you were in there was a seat for everyone
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@gembo
Yeah funnily enough massive sofas tend to be in areas like oxgangs craigmillar and magdalene and go hand in hand with folk who have 5 massive TVs in a 4 room flat.
It's not my place to judge though.
I prefer a smaller lighter sofa. Some of these beasts wouldn't be out of place in a hotel lobby .Posted 9 years ago # -
Our last two sofas have been Nabrus, which come in bits on a pallet for home construction and can be reasonably easily disassembled for re-hoicking later on. Much better than the predecessing Ektorp sofa we had in our old flat, which had to be sliced into bits to take it out to throw it away as I'd swapped the hinges over on the front door since it was bought, preventing it from being able to be removed in one piece.
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Modular sofas are great.
I take a lot of Ektorps to the tip.Posted 9 years ago # -
In Bruntsfield this afternoon (1) A sit-up-and-beg bike with a female rider on the saddle and a chihuahua of indeterminate sex sitting up (but not begging) and looking quite cute in the front basket (2) A brown tandem with two adults heading north at Holy Corner.
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Not really a spot - more of a stop… nonetheless nice to stop Nelly from going about his business and say hello the other day….
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@algo
Very nice to meet you too, sure our paths will cross again.
Good to be spotted not from my face but the (much more distinctive) bike !!
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Re strange symbols at Buccleuch Street and Home Street (top of page and further down) -
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This was part of the GPR (Ground Penetrating Radar) survey which was undertaken for the Meadows to Innocent project. This is required to establish the services and plant beneath the surface for our designs.
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So an important part of design process to make it less likely to be dug up(?)
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"So an important part of design process to make it less likely to be dug up(?)"
Those markings match those seen the Trinity/McKelvie junction some time before its excision and replacement. Maybe they're just being careful not to gouge open water mains with excavators in the way the contractors who did the tramworks on Princes Street were not.
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"Maybe they're just being careful not to gouge open water mains with excavators in the way the contractors who did the tramworks on Princes Street were not"
Presumably.
It's a good sign that 'something is happening' - for the Innocent - to Canal route - but apart from realigning kerbs, wouldn't have thought there would be much 'digging' involved(?)
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I spotted the wilmington's cow formerly known as anth on the innocent this am on my way to Musselburgh.
My spot came out very Alan partridge. Indeed I said A-hah
Does WC lurk? Or tweet or is it all facebook these days? His pedantic threshold is lower than the norm on this site I think?
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"His pedantic threshold is lower than the norm on this site I think?"
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