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That's cool!
I spotted Dave's bike but not Dave in Broughton St yesterday I think?
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@chdot
I spotted that too, good picture! Also spotted the odd phenomenon where an aeroplane has the sun right behind it and appears to be advancing along a black line in front of it, which is, I guess the shadow of the vapour trail behind it....
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@chdot
Charles Avery. Know his stuff anywhere, even behind cheapo perspex glazing.
Copyright....?
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"Charles Avery"
Yes
Copyright....?
Yes, but.
I think this comes under 'fair use', especially -
Now that it's been identified -
Small section of one of several works by Charles Avery at GMA 1
GENERATION: 25 Years of Contemporary Art in Scotland | National 28th June − 2nd November 2014 Scottish National Gallery
Admission free
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Many CCE regulars at Barclay church
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Going through Haymarket this evening, a chap in a colourful Audax UK t-shirt with the logo "PARIS-BREAST-PARIS".
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"PARIS-BREAST-PARIS"
You sure??
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Sounds like a different sort of a holiday..
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Charles avery v good out at GMA, free, though might have finished.
These parisiennes are obsessed.
Actually a former boss of mine launched and scuppered an initiative he dreamt up called Going for Best by announcing to a room full of psychologists he was Going for Breast. He actually went to the borders quite quickly after that.
IWRATS if I do not see you tomorrow can I rent out l'homme du train over the weekend please. Reliable lawyer chap who has never lost a case that he has taken to trial (if you ever need such a thing, though largely because he makes you plead guilty if he thinks he might lose just to keep up his 100% record, lovely guy though I may not be selling him to you)
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"You sure??"
Most definitely. I was behind him at the lights and did a double-, then triple-take to confirm.
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Very stylish lady in front of me on the towpath this evening.
She had long reddish brown hair that went very nicely with her tweed-style checked jacket with suede elbow patches. Her jacket went well with her brown trousers. What makes this post relevant, though, is that this whole ensemble matched her bike which was a lovely dutch-style thing in a gorgeous chestnut-brown. The only slight disappointment was the front basket, which was brown plastic rather than wicker.
I felt rather inferior in my completely unmatched Decathlon £7 turquoise top, black shorts and battered Tahoe shoes and red panniers.
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@Greenroofer - something to do with this weekend's Harris Tweed ride maybe?
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@Greenroofer
Wonderful. I am in awe of people who can look stylish with ease. I'm still slightly giddy over the World's Most Attractive Cyclist, spotted twice early this summer on the canal. Nut brown skin and physique that suggested a summer spent sport climbing in Provence after a winter season as a professional ballerina and eyes that made me think they were heading to PhD studies in advanced mathematics. Slightly shabby chic, and a smile that very nearly had me dreaming in the soup.
@gembo
But of course. My trust in you is strong.
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@iwrats, thanks, trust reciprocated. Will be down Muirhouse this morning so spot not likely.
Tried in two bike shops to buy waterproof over trousers yesterday to no avail
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@Iwrats - it's always the smile that clinches it...
Have you considered a career in romantic fiction?
Robert
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@Roibeard
As chance would have it I do know a very serious professional who (unknown to her colleagues) moonlights under a nom de plume for Mills & Boon!
Given my own hob-nailed approach to romance I suspect I'd be confined to a sub-sub-genre involving complex misunderstandings and long-term unrequited longings, but your suggestion has made my day all the same!
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"moonlights under a nom de plume for Mills & Boon"
You mean some people use their real names?
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Yesterday - just when I needed a cup of tea!
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First spot in AGES - Roibeard on his blue brompton/folder coming past randolph place this morning. I'd been picking up my SO's clear cycling specs from the solicitors.
Roibeard - your high vis is looking decidedly shabby chic! Almost green. Well worn ;)
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@ARobComp - Well worn
<Bows> Why thank you!
Ah, you meant the other thing... Yep, I prefer the genuine 3M Scotchlite retroreflectives, which aren't necessarily features of newer vests (out of patent?), and don't really mind about the daylight/low light visibility. If they can see me in daylight, then they aren't looking and fresh fluorescent isn't going to help...
Robert
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I thought you looked very dashing...
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Poundland Nicholson St.
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ARobComp - can you really be sure what you are seeing? Given you seem to get glasses from a solicitor's office.
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I tried to go to an opticians but the solicitor was the closer option. (does that even work as a pun. Closer/close-er)
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At 0920, convoy of 6 mildly sinister shiny limousines with well-behaved drivers, sequential numberplates, tinted windows and (as far as I could see) no passengers heading down old Dalkeith Road, round Lady Road gyratory and presumably out east through Liberton. I departed their company by heading up Gordon Terrace towards KB.
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Explains above(?)
http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/david-beckham-enjoys-night-out-in-east-lothian-1-3562798
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Spotted a new garment on the canal this morning - a sort of red mini-kilt or possibly rain apron, stretched between the waist of a cyclist and his handlebars. I guess it was meant to keep his legs dry. I don't suppose it did.
Anyone know what it was?
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@IWRATS - I saw the very same thing this morning being sported by a man I pass each day heading from Roseburn on the NEPN, usually around Ravelston or Craigleith area. He fits the description of an older gent with spectacles, a close-cropped white beard, hi-viz jacket and a mushroom-shaped helmet.
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