@jdanielp
Thanks for the reminder. Someone close to me is visually impaired and I had intended to offer to record it for the RNIB but forgot.
I shall get on that right now.
CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Events, rides etc.
Overlander - Launch Event
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Posted 4 years ago #
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@IWRATS excellent.
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Is it true that book wouldn’t have happened (probably) without CCE?
Asking for good reason.
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@chdot
Well, counterfactual history is a tricky subject, but I don't think I'd engage with the idea of cycling in the way I do without CCE. It's given me a framework within which to consider the activity and also a certain licence to indulge my bicycling eccentricities.
There's no way I'd have set out to write a book centred on (though not actually about) cycling without having experience of writing on the subject. CCE is surely the best ever place to do that. I think I can be reasonably confident that being part CCE was a necessary part of the scaffolding round the building, as was knowing a guy in the Rough Stuff Fellowship when I was at school and buying a bike when I was a student.
So yes, I'd guess that I'd have tried to write something in the absence of CCE but it wouldn't have been Overlander.
Does that help?
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Very much
Been asked to write something about CCE for a “campaigning” section in next Spokes leaflet.
I’ll do a new thread.
(Will mention book by name.)
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Nice one. Especially if you insist on a sensible typeface, bit of white space and other readability features.
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Spotted a guy last night who features on page 3 of Overlander. Hadn't seen him in eighteen years. Turns out he's a mate of @algo's.
Happened to have a copy of the book in my bag too.
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Nice spot.
I spotted that when i had been googling Choux Parrot as name of band i once saw bottled off stage (despit tuxedos and witch bride from Snow White) - Kelvingrove band stand GLASGOW 1987. Front person Mama VOOT says Sorry we are goanna huv tae go aff fur war bass player’s been hit by a boatl.
I should have been googling Chou Pahrot. All there. They were from paisley and were prog rock but reformed for the bandstand. The heavy rock crowd did not like them but i did. And I predict @algo will
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Just got the first year's figures for the book. Over two thousand copies shifted and I am genuinely humbled and relieved that I have not let Saraband down.
That is, by all accounts, a thumping success for a non-fiction text from an unknown punter with no foothold in the book world. Thanks again to all involved in CCE, which helped incubate the beast.
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If you have the stomach for it @IWRATS you could contact the Kearvaig Pipe Smokers they will I think like your =book much more than the Bothy Bible which they treat as Toilet Paepr and firefighting material. They are quite niche chaps it seems. Niche not nice.
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The Bothy Bible has been divisive. I know the author a little bit and he seems reasonable although possibly not hyper-sensitive to others' concerns.
How does one contact the KPS? Announcement in the Times?
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How does one contact the KPS?
Smoke signal.
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Via their website Kearvaig Pipesmokers Club, though the Times advert would work Watson and the smoke signal is Joke of the Day Sherlock
THey really do not like the MBAor the author of Bothy Bible. Or people they call Outdoor Knobbers. Principally as they wear Lycra to get to bothies (but do not have bikes) oh yes and ask them to stop smoking
Maybe research them first as you might not want them championing you. Lot of pipes, beards and tweed waistcoats
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Since the inaugural meeting, KPC membership has gone from a handful of pipe-puffing oddballs and misfits to a bigger bunch of oddballs and misfits
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kearvaigpipeclub.co.uk
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Ha-hI recognise that leitmotif! That's Gustav Temple and the people behind The Chap magazine. Affable but irritating after a while.
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@Iwrats, yes the magazine I read started with a good account of a winter walk into a Bothy, couple of cold nights then back down to Inver. But after that did go downhill as it were. THe American football was more The Lad than The Chap and the rants at the end about the MBA were monotonous.
Having checked out Gustav, the KPC are at the grunge end of The Chap spectrum tho they do bang on about Chaps and Chapettes. And always wear one item of tweed. (Waistcoat) Whereas Gustav’s rule is always wear at least one item of tweed.
Our very own Tweed Run is halfway twixt Gustav and the KPC
I used to have to give an Ethics Seminar at Strathclyde Uni and given the dryness of the topic I used to wear one of my velvet jackets and bring the students wine, as if we were at Oxbridge. One year I did it in Tweed and when the students had to consider their ethical dilemmas I dismantled a pipe belonging to the father of a colleague and cleaned it with a pipe cleaner. No baccy though.
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Tired legs from a long ride yesterday meant I've had a lot of time today to finally read you book! It was excellent, truly enjoyed it - have recommended it to several people already. But it makes me miss the Highlands even more. Can't wait for Phase 3!
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@mkoerner
Thank you so much. It means a great deal to me when people not just tolerate my nonsense all the way through but take the time to say so.
It will be quite something when we're free to return to the hills.
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Those of you who ploughed through Overlander will possibly remember the gentleman I met in Kinloch Rannoch. I would just like to announce that I received a Christmas card from him in mid-November and I am still glowing with pleasure.
We correspond occasionally and his second postcard to me is possibly the most touching communication I have ever received through the post.
This weekend I will make a card to send to him. He most certainly merits this small effort.
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Early with his Xmas card?
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Dances to the beat of a different drum altogether. The card may or may not relate to Christmas 2020. I don't mind, just very happy that he thought of me.
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Is that the gentleman you spoke of at the launch event too?
I can't think how else to describe him without spoiling the surprise for those who haven't yet read the book.
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I can't remember a single second of the launch event. All resources were directed away from memory to the CPU. But it's quite possible, yes. He and the subsequent person encountered are the core of the book in many ways.
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@IWRATS, that is a great story. The descriptions of the encounters were the things I remembered most from the launch (as well as mixing with literary royalty) and are a delight. Glad that this continues to give you pleasure.
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@paddyirish
Heart emoji.
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Bought the book at last, but Santa has to wrap it and deliver it before I can read it.
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@cb
Ha! Read it all the way through to the back page and let me know how you get on?
I'm off to spend the royalties on your purchase now.
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