Fimm at the Craighlockhart Hill East around today. I recognised fimm from Strava photos and went to introduce myself. Fimm was running while Mr Bill and I was were out for a quick walk. Since we now live right beside the hill I try to go there most days. It's only a 30min return trip. I may have to start using crampons soon.
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I have used my Yaktrax for the first time in two years. They broke but I fixed them.
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@bill, I thought you had moved, what with the decking and the stairs inside. Though we held back for your right turn near your old house a wee while back,
Went up Craiglockhart on a funny commute home one summer night. Steep back down and a big ruined property
Interesting place to walk
Then you can extend up to Napier Campus and the old Wilfred Owen and Siggy Sassoon sanatorium.
The psychiatrist Mr Rivers was a Dude.
Owen returned to the front as he thought it improved his poetry.
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Was it our @urchaidh winning a buff tonight at Banff Film Festival?
If so, well done. Wasn't Myrtle amazing...
#NichePost
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Wore my Yaktrax on East Craiglockhart Hill and very glad that I did although it really required proper crampons in places.
Some incredible comedy pratfalls. One woman ascending on all threes with a Costa coffee clutched in the fourth.
Was it IWRATS in the little wildlife garden by the innocent/prestonfield golf course on New year's Day?
Have never met IWRATS so this is probably adding 2+2 and getting 5.Posted 3 years ago # -
Morningsider family sledging trip to Easter Craiglockhart Hill early today. Despite the fluffy coating of snow it was effectively the Cresta Run - rather unnerved at one point by the air ambulance passing very low overhead.
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@cb was the person in the wildlife garden polite with a ponytail?
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I wasn't quite at Easter Road today, so not me. Only went as far as Sainsbury's via the back cut-through and away along Marionville Road. Saw kaputnik on his way out with a sledge when I was on my way home with ours earlier.
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@gembo ponytail yes. But only saw the back of his head so not sure about the polite bit, but definitely not rude.
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@cb, hard to say then unless there was a large pink bicycle in the vicinity?
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Was it IWRATS in the little wildlife garden by the innocent/prestonfield golf course on New year's Day?
Ladies and gentleman we have a winner!
Spotted from behind whilst watching reed buntings.
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It was nice of Bill and Mr Bill to come and say hello. I was very glad of my mini-crampons for going up and down the Easter and Wester Craiglockart Hills. I had two conversations about them with complete strangers and then met someone else I know when I was on my way home along the canal tow path.
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I'm quite impressed by my Spotting ability in that case.
Incidentally, how do you access that wee garden other than the gate from the golf course? Is there another way in our do you have to hop over a wall/fence?
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Nah, just wander in from the slope down to the Innocent. Bear left.
We came through the golf course by mistake.
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An unused 4.5kg bottle of butane. While walking through the woods on Craigmillar Hill.
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For sniffing or camping?
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Probably both I'd guess? There was a sleepo and a kiddy tent but they were abandoned.
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@bill wearing the Audax Ecosse Long Sleeve. A truly magnificent jersey
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@gembo I missed the first order of those jerseys but then saw them in the wild and really liked the look. There was another order organised in Nov. They are a bit dear but it's merino and very good quality. I think it's 100% merino wool.
@gembo and gembotom outside Casa de Gembo. They warned me about fog on the Lang Whang. Indeed my jersey got a bit wet and probably it wasn't the best choice for the weather but I really wanted to try it out. It was mostly dry by the time I got home.
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Long shot spot - someone who may have looked a bit like @liadback, sporting shorts, flying along towards Brunstane on a Genesis MTB.
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@bill just to make sure no one thinks you are being rude the other entity outside my house is Gembo Tom. Or as he likes to call himself Tom.
Gembo Trev who was separate from us today due to regulations passed you at Ainville due to him identifying you on Strava which is a thing he does.
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@gembo looks like Gembo Trev didn't go all the way to Carnwath. Just sayin'.
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@bill, did he by any chance turn for home at Hagrid’s Hut? I thought he was back too quick to pass you at ainville even though we detained you.
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bill and mr bill in the Pentlands. It was a touch cold and windy for shorts, as I said to mr bill...
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@fimm was good to see you again. We came across several more men in shorts (even shorter than Mr Bill's). Though he said he lost feeling in his legs after tramping through that knee deep snow on the north face of Capelaw.
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Had a very pleasant outdoor socially distanced coffee with @ARobComp - was impressed the coffee van by the Edinburgh University Library now is selling bike inner tubes and lights etc...
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And water fur yer dug.
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Saw that, they should sell Vaseline for joggers nip too and pencils for the students....oh wait is coffee van
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C130 or whatever a Hercules is called?
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I was heading slowly up Harperrig Hill in a south-westerly direction this afternoon, trying to keep my heart rate below some number that was simultaneously entirely arbitrary and annoyingly low (particularly given the headwind and the gradient), when who should come flying past downhill in a north-easterly direction but @bill, who seemed to be taking full advantage of the 'shenshation known as "the quickening"' but nevertheless managed a cheery greeting that I was unable to return because I was considerably distracted by the consumption of a Stoats bar.
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