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Very nice centre spread in Bella Caledonia supplement with today's National by a certain forumer.
'Scotland the Dump: A Military Legacy'Just got round to reading paper. Andy explains why he took up the challenge showing the location of things the government would rather not mention. Great bit of work I think.
SRD covered but he deserves two credits at least!
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Two people in hivis installing a metal pole in the narrow strip between the canal path nd the canal. half way between yeaman place and harrison park.
odd. and potentially dangerous if you're not expecting it?
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Saw Morningsider cycling up the links in the pouring rain
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@amir leaving work. Was fairly sure it was you, but not sure enough to say hello until I saw the big randonneur patch on your bag, but you were away by that point.
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David Perry of PV exiting Innocent tunnel, he may or may not be on here lurking under a pseudonym.
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@Frenchy so that was you lurking suspiciously outside the bike shed :)
@Iain McR he does have a pseudonym. I am not sure whether he reads the forum regularly these days.
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I am not sure whether he reads the forum regularly these days.
can not compute ...Posted 6 years ago # -
@amir - that's my "wait for GPS signal" spot.
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gembo emerging out of the haar ahead of me on the canal towpath, hankering for a high-five.
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@frenchy I thought it was relunctance to leave due to ominous skies
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My "reluctant to leave due to ominous skies" spot is inside!
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A lady attaching heavily-laden ordinary shopping bags to her pannier racks with climbing carabiners. I dared not watch her ride away.
Also: Gluten-free dog food. We live in heady times.
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@iwrats
NormalOld-fashioned polythene or Bags for Life with nylon handles?Posted 6 years ago # -
@wingpig
Sainsburys' yellow ones with nylon handles. Only Chinese students do the poly bags on the handletube thing, surely?
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poly bags on the handletube thing
I did that pre-panniers...
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Were you a Chinese student at the time? I tried it once and it was The Slalom of Doom Induced by The Double Pendulum of Death
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There's a knack. You have to move carefully...
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I have not put a polythene bag on my handlebars since one of my early trips to WmLow on Nicolson Street. I was only wheeling the bike anyway, but a bag gave up at Summerhall, fortunately not far from my home at the time.
Yellow Sainsbury bags for life make very effective panniers, which the right amendments:
You can also just loop the handle round the rack and push the rest of the bag through, if you don't need to detach it until it's unloaded.
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"one of my early trips to WmLow on Nicolson Street. I was only wheeling the bike anyway, but a bag gave up at Summerhall"
There's some kind of time wormhole operating in the vicinity clearly, as Wm Low and Summerhall did not exist simultaneously.
P.S.:- Also a fan of Snozberries yellow bags for life. Also frozen peas emblazoned Eislund ones are good: slightly smaller. I don't substitute either for panniers, but they are handy for dropping into Dutch style panniers or plonking on top of the rack, and held in place with a bungee or three.
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Summerhall has always been the name of that stretch of street, back when the Royal Dick was the Royal Dick.
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I always though of it as Sciennes...
But yes there's a Summerhall Square. The rest is Causewayside, or Russell Place, no?
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Yes, until you get to the
biscuit factoryNational Library annex, then it becomes Ratcliffe Terrace.Posted 6 years ago # -
The bag started looking decided stretched along Hope Park Terrace, but didn't actually fail until I was almost at Franco's. I was only heading to the site of the former steamie, so just put the spilled contents into my pockets and did that T-shirt bag thing.
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It's Causewayside until Duncan Street/the petrol station.
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Surely the latest abandoned Christmas tree on record outside the Cumberland tonight. A hefty specimen too.
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Failed to spot SRD where SRD ought by rights to have been - the Lyon Playfair library. It was a good evening too.
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Yes, apologies iwrats. Of course, for me it would have been a work commitment and I am supposed to be working to rule...but you will have seen many of my colleagues (a particularly good selection of them in fact), and yes, I was involved in the early stages of planning. but unfortunately my attendance wasn't possible.
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Indeed, I wondered if that was it.
I loved the delicious irony of the speaker being preceded by a large silver 'mace'.
Also, chatting afterwards discovered that we have a historian of migration living next door to us. Which is nice.
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@SRD, message from UCU central office today following the consultative ballot: "For the avoidance of doubt, all currently planned industrial action - including that scheduled for next week - is suspended and members should work normally."
Pity it wasn't in time for your bash.
In solidarity, etc.
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