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Bike strapped across the back of a tandem? HankChief always manages to dial things up to 11.
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Several groups heading into Porty last night, at least one who were ambushed by the vicious feral cobbles on Brighton Place.
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@stickman there were a couple of those out and about yesterday...
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"the problem with the ramp is that it is so close to the wall that handlebars snag the handrail making it unusable. "
The one time I tried it, it was the pedals that fouled, as the mini-ramp is too close to the wall, and the handrail is supported by regularly spaced vertical rods, or pedal catchers in this case.
"They're ram-raid spec security bollards presumably installed to the letter of an overzealous standard stating they should protect every entrance to a station - never mind it's just a set of steps leading up to a footbridge."
I suppose a very powerful 4x4 could drive up the steps at speed, James Bond style? However why would you bother? Easier to just use the official drop off point, which is closer to the station, and detonate your car bomb there. Not that I'm suggesting anyone tries this of course (hello GCHQ and Special Branch).
Oh incidentally the old footbridge from Calton Road to Jeffrey Street is still there in the roof, but they have re-calf it and removed the floor/walls as far as I can see. The supporting girders all still in place. Maybe that link will be reinstated one day?
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@Stickman - there's not many family cycling adventures that team SRD haven't done before team HankChief but we keep trying to find them ;-)
@klaxon - I'm now not convinced I ever knew your CCE alias. Will try to commit it to memory.
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"The supporting girders all still in place. Maybe that link will be reinstated one day?"
Spokes has been trying for a while, but I thought they had conceded it was no longer (physically) possible due to recent (and probably previous) rebuilds(?)
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Well, if you approach from Calton Road you can see an area of the roof in-between two roof peaks, where there's another, higher peak. That's the footbridge. So it's clear they've just re-clad/re-roofed it. From the remaining footbridge into Waverley you can see the footbridge structure running under the roof, it is however lacking a floor and internal cladding/walls at this stage: presumably this was all stripped out during the re-roofing of the station.
However if the structure is still there, there is I would imagine still the possibility of re-opening that footbridge at some future date...
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Chap spraying orange arrows on road near Cardrona. Asked what the event was, he said Edinburgh London tomororow. That now explains to me the orange smiley, arrow and London sign at bush roundabout.
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Lilac Helmet Lady sporting a brand new pink winter jacket.
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One day Lilac Helmet Lady is going to come on here and she's going to be utterly freaked out
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I seem to remember, she's been made aware of her crucial role here.
(To do with times of day, seasons etc.)
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I think I mentioned previously on the Roseburn thread that I was surprised at the number of empty shops on Bread Street - this might be the next.
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Lilac Helmet Lady actually came up in pub discussion the other day amongst an unrelated collection of cycle commuters. Such fame!
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Does Lilac Helmet Lady ride an orange bike? On Friday I followed someone who might have been such, but I thought her helmet was more purple than lilac. The bike was very orange.
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at arellcat, the helmet is the colour you ascribe to it but for reasons of delicacy linked to puerile schoolboy scatalogical humour of IWRATS and others (well me) it has been turned down a notch on the colour spectrum [there is a previous discussion but for reasons of delicacy I am not going there).
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Very diplomatic gembo. I think her newish bike is white.
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"Thats an old fashioned car isn't it daddy" says the boy, "no thats arellcat in a torpedo" says I.
He was very impressed by said velomobile.
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@gembo - ahhhh the Hive. I remember when it opened. We used to have many university sports club events there. They used to open it up to all comers at about midnight and it would get ridiculously crowded and hotter than the sun.
I remember once questioning a bouncer about how many people were in the club as there seemed to be far too many to actually evacuate through the single exit in case of an emergency and he said they didn't count how many people came in. I assume they would stop people coming in once they were layered 2 deep.
I once watched a very slight lad pour an entire pint over a larger strapping lad who had been being aggressive, only for the bouncer to turn up and throw out the large lad as the small lad piped up "He just went crazy and poured beer all over himself. He's mad!"
Sure it's much better now though...
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A young lady bicycling smartly up the Quality Bicycle Corridor at Hope Park Crescent. So far so unspottable.
Also spotted: a large shaggy black and white greyhound loping along the Quality Bicycle Corridor on a lead, held by the aforementioned young lady cyclist.
Puerile and schoolboy? Scatological? Stuff and nonsense my good man. Poppycock indeed.
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Sallyhinch One day Lilac Helmet Lady is going to come on here and she's going to be utterly freaked out
I know I am and I am not her.
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@arobcomp, thank you for yr words of comfort there. Given my slight teenage eldest with hat-iTude is a plugger for the place. Hive is officially Edinburgh's best club innit
In the first of many hilarious being told things I know scenarios. Daughter was too late for freshens ball so went to a really good pub it is called something like the pear tree
Quite possibly the same one I went to in 1983 when I was struck by the fact that it was quite a good pub.
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Alternative Name(s) House Of Stewart; Lord Kilkerran's House; Usher And Cog House; Mr Laing's House; Pear Tree House
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https://canmore.org.uk/site/118669/edinburgh-34-36-38-west-nicolson-street-pear-tree
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Quite possibly the same one I went to in 1983 when I was struck by the fact that it was quite a good pub.
Still is, although the quality of their beer selection hasn't quite kept up with the prices over the last few years.
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Last time I as in the Pear Tree was 1992 I think. Overrun with crusties, trusties and dogs on strings as I recall. Daresay it has changed a bit since then!
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Urgh. Few pubs I dislike more than the Pear Tree.
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Pear Tree had a very good quiz in the early noughties. Pear eau de vie is one of the few strong alcohols to rival whisky in my pantheon of pleasures.
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One of Dave McBryan's excellent quizzes - also sets the Dagda quiz and various others. You might recognise him as a recent winner of 15-1 and a winner of the new year GCHQ test thing
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McBryan said: “Once you got through there’s no confirmation whether you’re on the right track or whether you got the right set of answers and that’s one of the most frustrating aspects of it. So you need to be fairly obsessive to keep plugging away at it and trying different things.
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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/feb/05/gchq-christmas-puzzle-end-three-men-winners-solution
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