Alan Nobleman

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Make Rankeillor Street level and everything will be better.

A puddle on a beach with ripple marks on the sand, vertically.
A 10 x 10 grid of 100 white squares with two and a half square coloured blue.
Railway lines converge around a central platform. There is a stationary train on the left and blue sky above the hills on the horizon.
A sweaty teacher is downing a cold beer.
Bollards and signs closing a cycle crossing.
A crossing not in use sleeve on a Toucan crossing.
A dark sky looms over tall yellow jacket foundations for wind turbines at Leith docks. Portobello beach is in the foreground.
A circular arrangement of small LEGO pieces upon a wooden table.
Graphic says “Whalin’ the shit out of guys”
The sun glares behind the silhouette of a lamppost at the end of an empty street.
An area of bare ground beside a road. On the right are trees with the remains of ivy, cut off at ground level. Telferton, Portobello.
A rainbow against dark clouds. Row of rooftops underneath.
A sandy beach broken up by ripples of seawater reflecting a cool, blue sky.
A cuttlefish bone and some shells on a sandy beach.
Girders of the Forth Bridge. All that can be seen beyond is grey haar.
“She drank from her cup and looked at me. Her eyes were the eyes of my mother and at the same time the eyes of an insane old woman”. From Eurotrash by Christian Kracht translated by Daniel Bowles.
Pink morning clouds over a dark supermarket and flats with lights in the windows.
White clouds across a blue sky. Below is the flat grassy area of Hollywood Park with Calton Hill on the horizon.
White clouds with grey undersides take up most of a blue sky. The rooftops of Edinburgh are in shadow below but the castle is in sunlight.
A large TV displays a picture of Christopher Walken, in bed with medical equipment around his head. It is dark around the TV.
A pub bar with Christmas lights and a screen above the door showing the darts.
A screen grab that says “Stranger things music supervisor says finale lands a needle drop fans won’t expect (exclusive) The music supervisor says the finale secured a song almost no one ever gets permission to use.”
The Author’s note from the back of “The Empusium”, a novel by Olga Tokarczuk that lists the names of many famous (male) authors whose misogynist views are paraphrased throughout the novel.
Cars congesting the road rather than using residents’ car park.
The Scott Monument, illuminated in purples, rises up into Edinburgh morning skies.
The National Gallery of Scotland is illuminated purple, seen beyond the canopy of Waverley Station. A train is at the platform on the right with open doors. Disembarking passengers walk towards the camera.
A cloudy orange sunset over the wet streets of London Road and Montrose Terrace Edinburgh. The Artisan Bar clock suggests temptation to the right of the scene.
A domed building and masts against a clear sky. Part of the Seafield sewage works in Edinburgh.
A grassy path in front of a security fence. Behind are a series of pale blue metal tanks, part of the sewage treatment works at Seafield, Edinburgh
White clothing hangs drying on a washing line viewed from below. The line stretches diagonally across a blue, cloudless sky from bottom left to upper right.
A wildfire burns across the southern slopes of Arthur’s Seat in Edinburgh. There is much smoke and bright orange flames in places.
Four graded sieves, each with a pile of beach deposits of matching sediment size. On a baking tray, on a beach mat.
A pad of thin, blue, Airmail writing paper.
A black and white still from the film “Closely Observed Trains”. A male railway worker in uniform and cap leans up to kiss a female railway worker, cap in hand, who is on the railway carriage.
The cover of the album by Sebadoh entitled “The Freed Man”. Two young men wave at the camera in a photo with the name of band and album above and below this framed image.
A view of the ceiling and luggage racks of a train carriage on the West Highland Line, Scotland. Most luggage space is taken up with rucksacks, straps dangling.
A sign for the luxury home ware retailer, “The Range”.
The European actor, David Hasselhoff, leans out of the sunroof of his robotic black car, KITT.
The old town buildings of Luxembourg city line the escarpment above the river Alzette. The river is not in flood.
A house front with a blue door and three windows is covered in green creeper. It looks like it knows what I get up to.
The smooth trunk of a tall beech tree reached up to sun-dappled leaf mosaic above.
A glass of Aldi whisky sits on a fence with pines and a grey sky behind.
The singer of Doctor Feelgood, Lee Brilleaux stands at the mic, in a filthy white jacket and holding a pint.
Scottish and British flags flying above Hotel entrance.
Two gaping large red waste containers by a road in an industrial estate. In the background, behind an industrial unit, is a communication tower. Everything is framed by greenery.
A sign on a door reads “live children dead slow”.
A sign in white text on a red background reads “Live children dead slow”. The sign is attached to a wooden door.
A beach, freshly raked by a tractor. Lines converging into the middle distance.
The multi-storey flats of the Moredun neighbourhood of Edinburgh line the skyline beyond the landscaped car park of the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.
In the foreground, Portobello High Street is wet with rainwater. Behind is the Aldi supermarket with its orange, blue, white sign. Newish “affordable” flats are on the horizon.
High rise waterfront apartments facing over the coastal defences of Joppa, Edinburgh over the Firth of Forth to the Fife Riviera. Evening sun lights up the windows on the north face.
A book; the Ordnance Survey Street Atlas of Edinburgh and East Central Scotland. The maps are black and white. 1998 edition.
Flowering grasses and umbellifers in front of a metal fence, with cement sacks stacked on a pallet behind.
A dead adder on a footpath in the sun.
Bracken in the foreground, a hanging valley in the centre. Slopes are grassy and the sky blue with some clouds. Glean Easan, Isle of Arran.
White clouds in a blue sky above the Isle of Arran. Taken from the side of a ferry.