The Doctor lands in Leith for a seafood meal on the Ocean Mist’s restaurant.
This photo is available on Redbubble: Ristorante TARDIS.
12 December 2008
4 December 2008
Morning at the Top of the Walk
Taken about a half hour before sunrise, on the 2nd of December.
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21 October 2008
Reflecting Bellfield Street
A typical Portobello terraced house reflecting in a car sunroof.
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4 October 2008
Walking into the light
“Where Princes Street Gardens are now, the Nor’ Loch was ‘a receptacle of many sewers, and seemingly of the worried cats, drowned dogs, and blackguardism of the city’. Initially stones and planks were laid across its swampland by a tailor with a shop in the Old Town and clients in the New. This gave rise to the name Geordie Boyd’s Mud Brig. In time the ‘Brig’ was filled in by rubble from the excavation works – some two million cartloads tipped out by contractors and private citizens – finally forming a great earthen mound, known now simply as The Mound.” – Stories in Stone
This photo is available on Redbubble: Sunset on the Mound.
2 October 2008
1 October 2008
26 September 2008
Great Junction Street at dusk
Great Junction Street, just after sunset, with the old church that used to be Club Velvet outlined against the sunset sky:you can just see Friarwood Wine in the dim light
This photo is available on Redbubble: Night Wine.
27 August 2008
This Is How To Lay A Double Yellow Line
I always vaguely thought that double yellow lines – which are painted on the road with a very solid thickly-laid paint, which drips but doesn’t run – would be put on the road with a kind of machine – a paintbrush trailing underneath a vehicle, I suppose.
11 August 2008
Waiting for the bus
…and waiting …and waiting …and waiting…
You know, really the worst thing about the chaos on the streets is that while Edinburgh Council claim “A high-quality, modern and efficient tram network is being created for Edinburgh and is scheduled to be running on the Capital’s streets by 2011” – I haven’t met anyone who actually believes that. (more…)
