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A temporary road sign on Richmond Place on the Hill Place to Pleasance route, always very well used by festival-goers walking (or cycling) between EdFests venues, which is incorrectly warning “No Access To Pleasance Ahead”.
A row of Sheffield stands: each being a simple metal tube in an upside-down U-shape, about as long as tall, firmly affixed into the ground, which supports the bike frame and allows both the frame and wheel to be locked to it securely (and the other wheel as well, if using a cable or second lock). Developers and architects, please •do not• waste your time and money on anything that might pretend to look “fancier” but has hugely sub-optimal actual utility! Your visitors and customers really will •not• thank you!
View along the South Bridge street, with its Georgian era architecture. The orange glow of sunset at the bottom of a late evening sky only just turning from blue to dusk.
View of a red citybike from the rear, with a just purchased pedestal fan (still in box) just about fitting at an angle into the bike’s front carry basket.
A large cardboard box full of a huge variety of types and colours of tomatoes: red and golden cherry, green and red plum, medium and large round red tomatoes.
View out of a medium speed train window of grassy fields passing by at around 160 km/h (line speed 100 mi/h), with trees in the middle and further distance.
Leslie Nielsen, with a slightly surprised or shocked expression on his face
The two life-size giraffe statues, made up of metal parts, painted black, which stand near Picardy Place, in Greenside, Edinburgh, are currently wearing pointed hats similar to traffic cones. The hats have swirly line patterns, one black on yellow (from this angle looking like an upside-down SNP logo), the other white on sky blue, matching the colours of the flag of Scotland.
An exploded packet of chocolate stars scattered on the floor under a bus seat.
Photo of Lorna Slater smiling after the constituency result. Source: BBC News
“Cyclops”, the experimental state of the art atomic-powered high speed double-decker articulated “Big Bus” from the 1970s… (Next stop: a movie streaming service near you.)
“Cyclops”, the experimental state of the art atomic-powered high speed double-decker articulated “Big Bus” from the 1970s… (Next stop: a movie streaming service near you. Ridacards not valid on this service.)
Screenshot of the profile page of what might or might not be the official Scottish Labour account on Bluesky: “No posts yet”
An assortment of election leaflets. Of the main larger parties, only leaflets for the SNP and Scottish Greens have arrived.
“Bluesky is made with AI, the engineers and even some non-engineers use Claude code”
Oscar the Grouch
A cluster of red e-bike city hire bikes with their glowing status lights parked right outside the entrance to the 1990s modern style VQ HQ, which also has a glowing light emanating from its central tower, like a lighthouse.
“Edinburgh: Inspiring Capital” logo
The boy and girl game characters climb a large monochromatic grey-shaded stepped ziggurat-like building in the vast city of Antescher, in 3D isometric view, to escape the reach of the giant ants, in the computer game “Ant Attack”.
A mug of hot coffee for recharging mind and body (with heat sensitive “charge level” icon), with a jug of ice chunks alongside.
The glowing lens of HAL 9000. “I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't let you browse that.”
Map showing how the cycle route and A8 crossing on Roseburn Gdns/Place have been unfortunately overlooked and are outwith the city bike zone area.
A firefighter from the stop-motion animated children’s tv programme Trumpton rises on the village fire engine’s lifting platform: “El-e-vate!”
A middle of the night scene with a brightly coloured tram waiting to leave from Picardy Place to Leith and Newhaven, as a bus passes by about to start its own outward journey.
The Lidl app tells me that I shopped there 167 times this year: that’s about twice a week of small shopping trips, with my groceries able to be carried home.
An alien xenomorph thrusts its face, with acidic drool and fag ash dripping from its maw, hard up against Regan’s, sorry, Ripley’s, face, who looks extremely discomforted and alarmed by this encounter.
Screenshot from platform game Manic Miner, showing several toilets menacingly moving left and right across the platforms, threatening Miner Willy with their flapping toilet seats
Emperor Palpatine
A mushroom cloud appears as a nuclear bomb explodes over Sheffield, in the horrific dystopian Cold War film “Threads”
Refer to edinburghtrams.com or app for Edinburgh Trams timetable information
Empty profile page of Scottish Labour with absolutely no posts, do they really have nothing to say to citizens and voters? Doesn’t use domain name as handle, is it even official?
One O’Clock Gun (cannon) firing from Edinburgh Castle to mark the time
The logo with 9 linked hands in a circle from the commemorative EEC 50p coin, with text in the centre: “When the world says Britain hasn't a snowball in hell's chance of going it alone, is that the time to say NO?”
Filmhouse Cinema frontage,until recently hidden behind a construction curtain the size of the building, with a bright pink banner saying “Open the doors!”
A can of Irn-Bru in its distinctive orange and blue colours, featuring a blue unicorn with an orange mane
Mark from “Peep Show” naïvely asking “Are we the baddies?” while participating in a role play event dressed in a Nazi uniform
A can of Irn-Bru in its distinctive orange and blue colours, with a bright green dinosaur-like cartoon image of Nessie, the Loch Ness monster
Graphic of a stylised face made up from blue laser beams, from the title sequence of the Channel 4 science TV programme: Equinox
Not quite the worst toilet in the world, but still with very ominous hazard tape blocking the doorway to the sit-down toilet
The face of someone who looks like an orange turnip (but is considerably less useful)
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End view of a pain au chocolat, which has a pleading expression in its chocolate eyes and a very sad and worried frown in the folds of the pastry
Shelf edge price label for bananas, with a Scottish flag printed alongside, implying that the bananas are of Scottish origin.
Image of figures of some of the shockingly large costs of Brexit. Data in text form in linked Independent article in next post.
Alex from “A Clockwork Orange”, with his eyes clamped open to force him to watch
Carved pumpkin lantern sadly/amusingly chucking its guts up, the vomit being literally its own pumpkin flesh guts
Iconic film scene of Mark Renton in “Trainspotting”, who had a moment before been quickly running down a street in Edinburgh city centre, suddenly forced to an abrupt halt as a car pulls out unexpectedly from a side alley.
The Guardian news site home page features an updating table of the EU election results
Edinburgh Tram crossing the boundary to the original route at York Place from the recently extended line from Leith
Today, the universe issued me with a sandwich bar order ticket with the number 42. (A cheese and tomato panino. Mostly harmless.)