Charlie

@urchaidh.bsky.social

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Very much the likes of me.

Screenshot of Evening News clickbait, headline 'Leith businesses hit by ongoing tram network issues following Princes Street fire.' :
Alex Cole Hamilton in a gas mask with a sign reading 'clean air now'
Dickie Davis
Three large (4 and 5 meter) standing stones, with the hills of north Arran in the background. The sky is a near cloudless blue.
Cars parked on a roadside between the carriageway and driveways. There is a wide strip of grass next to the carriagewayway and the cars are parked on a tarmac strip through that grass which is there, presumably, to allow access to the driveways. The road has double yellow lines.
Large white SUV parked blocking a newly installed drop kerb. There are double yellow lines with no loading markings.
Four ships carrying huge wind farm components and the cranes to install them lines along the horizon off Porty Beach.
Distracted boyfriend meme, the Lib Dems, currently hand in hand with "being the smallest party in Holyrood", looking admiringly at "still being the smallest party in Holyrood".
View over Leith western harbour. Breakwater covered in huge yellow offshore wind turbine piles.
Man looking through film reel one frame at a time.
A field which has been prepared for planting, long straight rows of dark brown earth with flat tops in groups of three, with a wider gap between. Faintly, and I do mean faintly, reminiscent of KitKat fingers. Coastal marsh and sea in the background.
James Bond, being played by Sean Connery, waving nonchalantly with cigarette in hand.
Close up of Dalek weapon firing a bright bolt of energy.
Spirit of Tasmania ferry being shepherded out of Leith Docks built two tugs. Tight fit through the harbour lock.
View looking east across the water towards Edinburgh and Leith from outside Prestonpans. Cloudless blue sky. Arthur's Seat on the horizon.
Distracted Boyfriend Meme. Edinburgh Lib Dems (boyfriend) distracted from Any Sustainable Transport Policy (girlfriend) by Chance of a few Protest Votes.
Headline 'Allister Heath is a symptom of a deeply sick, anti-Western ideology' with an Allister Heath byline.
Three arrangements of driftwood on Portobello Beach. One a large nest of wood balanced atop a single branch, another looks like a sailing boat. The third may just be a log to sit on, not sure. Looking out to sea, Berwick Law just visible on the horizon.
Crowd ceilidh dancing under strings of coloured lights, band on stage, in Portobello Town Hall.
Looking out to sea from Porty Beach. Couple of dog walkers in the foreground. Messy white breaking swell. There are a couple of folk on boards trying to surf it.
'The Irritating Gentleman' by Berthold Woltz, with added caption 'So then I told him I’ve done more to encourage cycling in Edinburgh in 4 months than he’s done in 40 years'.
Exterior of what was The Beaten Docket pub in Portobello. Signs of major renovation underway.
Entitled car brained idiot stands in front of his illegally parked brandishing a parked ticket in one hand, the other hand raised in a shrug, and a vacant melancholic expression on his face.
Scene from Chernobyl drama. Two engineers in the control room, looking worried. Captioned "it's a pothole - not great, not terrible"
Woody and Buzz 'everywhere' meme captioned 'Roasters, Roasters Everywhere'
Distracted boyfriend meme: Alex Cole Hamilton is distracted from Alex Cole Hamilton by a passing Alex Cole Hamilton.
The "Baldrick's posing pouch" scene from Blackadder's Christmas Carol.
And threadbare oven glove mit made from thick cotton threads. The vertical threads are long gone, the remaining horizontal threads bear a (extremely tenuous) resemblance to the cover of the Joy Division album Unknown Pleasures.
Group of five cyclists descending a rough track on heather covered hills.
Clickbait for a Scotsman article headlined 'I moved to Leith five months ago, but people keep telling me the same thing' beneath a picture of a cowboy gear shop in The Barras Market.
Cargo ship with an enormous deck crane unloading offshore wind turbine legs at the Newhaven end of Leith Docks. A handful of people are watching from a breakwater opposite.
Photo from Google Maps, showing 50% of road space used for parking as described.
Picture of a 'Kroton', a robotic adversary of Patrick Troughton era Doctor Who, with a head that reminded me of a Bialetti Moka pot.
Blurry photo of a SUV being driven off the pavement, after having been parked on the pavement, across a dropped kerb, at the end of a marked crossing, outside a primary school. It's dark.
Photo of a baby's reclined bouncer chair sitting on a bike trailer, behind a bike, as if to be used for transporting a baby. There is no baby in the chair (and, for the avoidance of doubt, there never was)
Bike trailer with a 6ft tree on it.
Three cargo trikes in line abreast, loaded with a wrapped Christmas tree each to be delivered. Each trike is piloted by a smiling rider, and two of the three also have a young passenger.
Wrapped up Christmas tree strapped to a bike trailer for delivery.
Steam Loco 'Blue Peter' leaving a siding in Joppa. Arthur's Seat in the background.
Video taken by someone waiting to cross the Western Approach Road in Edinburgh at a controlled crossing. A few cars pass, then the camera pans right to pick up a car approaching at very high speed. The car speeds through the crossing, which has changed to red, just as the beeps begin.
Urban street after dark, with a group of Voi hire bikes all close together.
Group of Voi hire bikes parked up on a paved area in Leith. Two are lying down on their sides.
A swede being turned on a lathe.
Morgan 'Super 3' three wheeled sportscar, on a beach.
Dancing crowd scene from 1973 film The Wicker Man.
Dirt track, leading to car park, closed off by two large concrete blocks with the word 'closed' spray painted on them. There is a one metre gap between the blocks, and a car parked in front of one of them.
Cartoon image of newspaper article with headline 'Old Man Yells at Cloud' and a picture of an old man yelling at a cloud.
Display board on Portobello prom with custom map showing some easy cycle routes starting at the board.
John Peel, sitting at his DJ console, says "that was the housmartins, up next, the new single from Pink Footed Geese"
Stoning scene from The Life of Brian. Cleric asks 'are there any Tories here today? Crowd, disguised in obviously fake beards, all say 'no'.
Small red caravan on Porty Prom, sign on side says 'Moving Images'. Chalkboard next to it says it's a solar powered cinema, part of Porty Artwalk, and gives show times.
Car parked fully the pavement at a raised table crossing, partially on the tactile slabs marking the crossing. A newly installed bollard nearby is not enough to prevent the parking.
Three pictures of cars parked on the pavement of a built out crossing, two of them blocking the tactile crossing markers.
A bowl of Pão de queijo, small balls of cheesy bread from Brazil.
Zoom in in the gap between "you" and "arrive" in the terms to reveal the words "are schedued to" in tiny text.
Scene from Seinfeld. Jerry and George from having a 'slap' fight, no one is actually landing any blows.
Screenshot of TripAdvisor page for The Boardwalk Beach Club cafe in Silverknowes. showing rating of 2.2 out of 5 from 663 reviews. Owner states 'trolls target this business'.
Two cyclists passing a large banner with the word 'try praying' on it, tied to a fence.
Screenshot from FlightRadar24 showing a helicopter tracking up and down along Portobello Beach and up to 2km offshore.
A bin in a park overflowing with discarded plastic bags of dog shit. It has been piled up on top of the bin, and many bags are lying around the bin.