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I'm jealous! Have a good time, chaps. Anyone taking their camera?   |
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« Reply #16 on: 18:02:59, 16-10-2008 » |
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I'm jealous! Have a good time, chaps. Anyone taking their camera? Green with envy perhaps, marty? (Might just give you an inkling how of how some of us who are further-flung feel when the board seems to be overrun with posts before, during and after the rather more frequent London convocations....) Camera? No, martle. Cameras, rather more likely.... |
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« Reply #17 on: 23:33:26, 16-10-2008 » |
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Just a bit of advance warning that although the weather up here has been wonderful these past few days, the forecast for Sunday looks pretty dire: the start of wet and stormy outbursts, and possibly not that warm, either. Just so you're prepared. |
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« Reply #18 on: 23:39:46, 16-10-2008 » |
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'Rain? I feel no rain.'
George IV (when he visited Scotland (in 1822))
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« Reply #19 on: 22:07:01, 19-10-2008 » |
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Very nice afternoon in Edinburgh today with Members Dough, Harmony and _Now today - thanks for that chaps! I'm sure there'll be some photos along soon to prove it |
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« Reply #20 on: 22:12:20, 19-10-2008 » |
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Hope the weather was OK for the time of year, (the time as now, as it were.)
It's been sunny here is London, but not hot.
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« Reply #21 on: 09:54:01, 20-10-2008 » |
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The weather was better than expected: the odd squall of rain, high winds, brief bursts of sun and even slightly warm: a view of the castle from outside the HMV shop (where I found nothing to tempt me): Three most affable quarters of the assembled company: hh, stuart, t_i_n, chatting outside the Scottish Parliament:  A most enjoyable day, with two fine meals. |
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« Reply #23 on: 11:26:15, 20-10-2008 » |
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Many thanks, Ron, for instant memories of Auld Reekie. Indeed, I even "got" the view from inside HMV and, even more so, after spending many hours of study (learning lines) lying on the incline of Prin. St Gardens, before crossing to dear old Moultrie Kelsall's "Laigh" for lunch. The daily procession of the piped band beneath me. I flat shared for several months in a rather grand house, a few minutes away, in George Street.
"...And, as imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen
Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name.
Such tricks hath strong imagination..."
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« Reply #24 on: 11:40:33, 20-10-2008 » |
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It would have been nice if you'd handed over the camera to one of the three pictured gents, so we could have a picture of the no-doubt-not-least-affable member of the quartet, Ron.
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« Reply #25 on: 12:03:55, 20-10-2008 » |
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Stuart had a camera, too, Don B. Stanley, here's another instant memory: |
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« Reply #26 on: 13:11:46, 20-10-2008 » |
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Sheer pleasure, Ron, and vivid memories from the autumnal colours, too. I've yet to see the Scottish Parliament and, to my eternal shame, even the extension to the Scottish R.A. - and it is only a short walk up the ramp at Waverley Station. But hope springs eternal, too!
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« Reply #28 on: 14:45:20, 20-10-2008 » |
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He'll still be on the bus for some while yet, Mort. Here's another Auld Reekie shot, from the visit before (for hh's concert). Talk about the sun shining on the righteous: John Knox's house glows in a fleeting afternoon gap in the clouds..... |
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« Reply #29 on: 14:53:28, 20-10-2008 » |
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I have yet to find a city other than Edinburgh where you can see the sea and mountains from the centre of town.
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