Alison Johnstone MSP walking outside the parliament yesterday. A television film crew complete with reporter wearing a camel coat on Leith Links beside Duncan Place this lunchtime.
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Snowy lookalike just at right turn for the Meldons snowy lookalike from pavement. We were on road but after turn had to wait for the protege. Today he had a hangover And he was suffering
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Loads of kids on bikes on Corstorphine Hill. Think it was a ERC organised event?
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On Harlaw Road this morning, a woman driving a pony and trap. While this would be reasonably remarkable at the best of times, it was particularly remarkable today because the pony was tiny. Not just Shetland Pony small, but tiny. I've seen bigger dogs.
She was driving it with the chutzpah that comes from doing something that you are pleased with while knowing that it's unusual and people are looking at you. I get the same feeling when riding the Tern with a big kid astride the rear rack and I suspect @SRD got it a lot on the Helios 10 years ago. (Whenever my children get sullen about the unwanted attention when they are on the back of the bike I remind them of mini-SRD's exemplary behaviour: "Smile and wave, smile and wave". Micro-Greenroofer still prefers the death stare...)
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Dog in a Christiania-style cargo bike, being transported up Braid Road.
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I almost caught up with a cargo bike crossing the Forth Road Bridge this morning.
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Frederick Douglass on Gilmore Place/corner Lower Gilmore Place
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Excellent mural.
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I was up the Maiden’s Cleugh tonight just before dusk but on return to Harlaw (spotted on bake off last night) I went east and round clubbiedean and thence Bonaly and descending to Colinton.
As I birled down I mused, I have been coming this route about every second day during lockdown and `I have never spotted Arobcomp.
Turned corner and there he was pushing a small child with a huge stick
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pushing a small child with a huge stick
Did you report this?
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Just on here
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studiously ignored by Gembo (or a Gembo-alike, as there is one) yesterday evening on the lower part of the Innocent.
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@IainMcR - I would not ignore you big man. Last night I was Harlaw, top of poet’s glen and round back of ferm to Clubbiedean. Cafe closed for Refurb this weekend but open next weekend. THen down to torduff and back by JK Rowling Stables, Blinkbonnny and the Ultitrec surface of the WoL path.
Nowhere near Innocent I have witnesses.
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@Gembo very nice to spot you back in my neck of the woods, usually spot you on the Lang Whang.
I was pushing my own child* with a big stick so no reporting necessary. It's character building
*on her balance bike
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@arobcomp - you love that stick, it. Has many purposes.
Noticed on whang today that Kersewell The resort of the 21st century ( comprising a field and a sign oh yeah and on the Dunsyre side houses in middle of nowhere) has a new sign. Now called Lannraig Resort. Still a field
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For the first time since lockdown began I ventured north of Waverley, to play on the Picardy Place Hellscape. A lot of amiable but gently clueless pedestrians not realising it was a bike path.
Anyway I was waiting to cross at Greenside Row and my slightly withering gaze was met by a lady riding a lovely metallic blue Tern GSD that was loaded to the gunwales with...stuff. It might have had a child seat on it, I can't remember.
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Spotted Morningsider proceeding uphill, rather sartorially, in south Morningside at sort of going home time. I was in disguise on the terrifyingly large, firebreathing enduro motorbike.
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I like that you think any of your conveyances might qualify as "a disguise".
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Was passed by a chap on a tandem (possibly a Circe Helios) with a child on the back with a violin case balanced against the child and another violin in the back basket; another child followed on their own bike.
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saw my mate's wife Jane on the Innocent this morning (with an annoying flashing light).
Neither of them are on CCE, but it's still a spot.
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Chap getting a new BMW delivered out the back of an HGV. The HGV was parked in a bus stop and the car was being delivered directly onto double yellow lines.
Start as you mean to continue, I suppose.
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Many weird and wonderful bikes out this afternoon as I was doing the school run. Box bike on Middle Meadow Walk, Urban Arrow near the Astley Ainslie, a flatbed cargo bike and many kids on bikes coming back from JGPS. Lots of normal people on normal bikes too, just doing their thing. Quite uplifting really.
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@Morningsider - I saw that delivery in progress too. I assumed at the time that it was you getting a new car :-)
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Youtz doing sustained exuberant high-speed wheelies on mountain bikes north through the traffic outside Old College.
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Flat-cap Sinclair C-5 guy doing a turnip overtake almost into me on the NEPN.
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Crossing kings junction on foot (had been shopping). Mahoosive travis Perkins lorry at turning left into Lothian Rd.
As I remount to cycle down Gilmore Place Driver rolls down his window and starts shouting at me.
I sigh. And then start smiling. He wants to know where I got my helmet. “I’m a cyclist myself” with a rueful wave at his rig and shrug of his shoulders.
It always seems to be taxi And lorry drivers who stop and ask.
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Tills bookshop has re-opened as tills. But way more swanky. Bit disappointing if you see the outside to discover same slightly damp paperbacks you used to buy with the distinctive pencil price inside cover on first page. Found on nearly all my old paperbacks.
Later after paying £45 for a coffee and a tea but no wee biscoff biscuits in Toppings Bookshop oh, ok and Scabby Queen, Troubles (by JG Farrell a book I have lost) a journey around my room and lost spells (holiday reading) I then spotted a maroon rolls Royce being driven to the blockade at the cow gate. Said House of Gods on the side of the Rolls. A conquistador emerged, driver side with camera in time to take my picture but was maybe that wee chapel in the cowgate, west entrance.
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Was that Morningsider, in the company of a young person, that said hello to me on Lothian Road as I was trying to work out whether I could make my way past the Fountainbridge roadworks?
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@fimm - yes, that was myself and mini-Morningsider.
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@Morningsider it wasn't till after I'd wandered off that I thought "Was that Morningsider?". Apologies for being very distracted!
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