kirstynicol.bsky.social
I still love patchwork, I still hate custard and I still make a mean toffee apple. History, sleep support and who knows what else besides, all in beautiful East Lothian.
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Actual printed newspaper or online?
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Ps: DUNK!
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Was just thinking the same. The start of the year veered off in an entirely unintended direction, but we're good and hope you guys are (colds excepted) too...
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Sorry to hear you're under the weather. Feel better soon x
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That particular letter pattern is the worst, I fully agree.
But at least it's just two minutes a day, if that. Do you have any better solo word puzzles? My convalescent mum is obsessed with squardle.app, but I like to be ready with the Next Big Thing.....
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Though if anyone is looking for this, it's on the wall of the *old* library, vacated 5-10 years ago, and now the Foodbank.
Tranent Library is behind the shops across the road. Nice library, but no history poster. 🙂
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Had a fabulous meal at Corollas over the Xmas holiday. They treated us like royalty.
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"1900-1930"
I love Canmore, but they are super-cautious. Closer to 1930 by a long way....
canmore.org.uk/collection/1...
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Here's the closest StreetView will give me of the same spot
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1920s-30s? Sherriff Court House was demolished 1937, according to Canmore
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You should warn us first, like they do on medical programmes....
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Ah. Google: 1985-style....
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The video to 'Remember Where You Are' by Jessie Ware was filmed with actress Gemma Arterton on the streets of London on the evening of Valentine's Day 2021, during England's third COVID lockdown:
youtu.be/StUYHGDJUbQ?...
No passers-by, but a snapshot of an era for very different reasons.
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I remember fighting to include them in my lil book on the Chapel (still referenced in the Wikipedia article, look for my name!) but I'm not sure they made it...
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was converted into a cafe (the Minister in my day insisted on 'restaurant') in the ?80's I think and the glass discovered then in the rubble and set into the window tracery in what in my day was the smoking section.
Have to wonder how much more was lost when the Thistle Chapel itself was built/-
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Iirc (and it was the 90s when I ran the heritage interpretation) the boiler room in the basement below the Thistle Chapel (where policemen reportedly hid during the opening ceremony, to deal with the Suffragette Threat) /-
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And a wider view for context
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Second window at more of an angle.
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You can see them quite clearly on Street View - see that inverted teardrop shape at the top of the window?
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Well, I was the Visitor Services Manager there for four years 🙂 but I had to leave my stuff behind. I'll see if I can find anything....
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St Giles' Cathedral has two small window traceries of similar salvaged pre-Reformation fragments. In the basement, facing south onto Parliament Square....
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Back when my work meant I had a separate breastfeeding support landline installed, it was one digit off that of the local vet. I was offered some husky pups for free, I wonder what they got????
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It's a nice picture, but it's Victoria Street from George IV Bridge. Candlemaker Row is about 5 minutes' walk off to the left. :-)
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📌
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If you - or your visiting friends or relatives - actually want to visit Edinburgh Castle: book in advance! Even off-season (what's that?) it is surprisingly often booked up. Save time and avoid disappointment.
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And Circus Lane is unlikely to be worth a trek just to see it....
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....and "High Kirk" is not a reference to the style of worship there either ...
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My bugaboo. Amazing how many Lothian folks fall for this one.
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And leave Bobby's nose ALONE. Thank you.
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No.
It doesn't look like Hogwarts.
Hogwarts looks like it.
Next!
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And coming out of the station on Market Street and wanting North Bridge. Look uuuuup!
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Absolutely!
And it does a great job of it - a fine piece of street art.
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It's a fine mural, but not on the actual building where he stayed, just nearby.
The owner of the building wanted a mural, and realised Douglass would be a suitable topic.
theedinburghreporter.co.uk/2023/03/the-...
blog.historicenvironment.scot/2020/10/fred...
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I'd love to find some more about it!
One thing's for certain though: it ain't RLS! :-D
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johnnyjones.co.uk/2022/11/01/t...
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West Bow - where Victoria St joins the Grassmarket. Heavily restored ofc. Here's an old pic of the original.
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Sheep opposite the Wisp quite often as well. Use the Sheriffhall park&ride and you can see them in the field on your left as you head towards Cameron Toll
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Perhaps someone who follows @secretedinburgh.bsky.social might have an idea....?
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Wonderful 8 mins of footage. So much instantly familiar, but so many differences too!
Struck by:
Children playing out in the Old Town
The knitting woman with the basket
80% folks in hats - historical dramas take note!
The Gladstone memorial in St Andrews Sq, now on Shandwick Pl