Le Tout P'ti FC
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This new album is superb. I'm nowhere close to objective around Mogwai, but I definitely think this is one of the best of their ten albums. I'd say in the top two or three. (My favourite will always be Young Team, forevermore, it was huge in my life.)
Had tickets to Manchester and Hydro shows over the weekend, really gutted to have missed them (also missed Strathpeffer back at start of pandemic).
The only positive I'm seeing here is with the EU visa issues, and an album ready to tour, Mogwai will surely be booking an enormous UK tour as soon as feasible.0 -
Preparing for school run. That's a novelty.
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Auchendinny has a quick succession of viaduct > tunnel > tunnel > bowstring bridge > abandoned railway platforms. On the old Penicuik to Dalkeith railway. Lovely place to walk.
The first tunnel always reminds me of Back to the Future.
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Quite pleased that my assiduous reading of Simon Inglis in my youth has left me with the knowledge that the first cantilever stand was constructed at Scunthorpe in the 1950s. A futuristic construction technology which will surely reach Murrayfield II given time.
I saw this on the BBC news website- mini Murrayfield is completed.
It has been mooted as a home for the MIGHTY City. Given the number of pillars in the stands it seems the SRU have gone for the cheap option rather than have cantilevered stands with no pillars. Meadowbank and most modern stands are cantilevered. Indeed when Walsall's Bescot Stadium was opened in the late 1980s looking similar to mini Murrayfield here it was slated by grounds guru Simon Inglis for being the cheap option rather than having 4 cantilevered stands.
Tl:dr : pillars good for hiding egg chasing from view, shite for watching football.
Thanks also to plagiarising large chunks of Inglis, my P7 project on the grandstands of Archibald Leitch went down a storm.
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Like watching rugby through a fork was the most apt reply I read on twitter @BurgessHillRFC.
The Edinburgh rugby punters are quite easily taken in. One guy claiming the East Stand at Murrayfield (which dates from 80s) was built deliberately low to give the other three 90s stands a nicer view to the Castle.1 -
Your capital letters were warranted!Met this guy David Bauckham at Gala when he flew up, from Sussex I think, to write this INCREDIBLY DETAILED ARTICLE. Think it was his first time in Scotland and he was only there for the stand.
Whitehill kind of pissed on their chips that day.
Just for a laugh I got one of him [emoji6]
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I won't claim to have read his full thesis, I'll save it for the next global pandemic, but I would take issue with the comment that the stand polarises opinion. It's fairly universally admired surely? To be either admired or at worst treated with indifference is hardly polarisation.
I've never heard somebody exclaim "oh my god, that looks just like Jarnac Court*, phone the Luftwaffe, immediately" on seeing it.
* Niche Midlothian reference.0 -
Sorry for letting you down. I'll do better next time.Why have you posted a photo from a phone strapped to a drone, when they had a video up of it a few months ago?
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The new stadium at Murrayfield is laughably bad. Looks like every single vantage point will have a pillar blocking the view.
Hopefully Edinburgh City don't end up here. Ainslie Park is far superior. Nicer pies too.
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Good show today. "I'm the son of a roof sheeter."
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Relating to NHS registrations from abroad - I have a pal who lives near Brisbane. He is still registered with his NHS Dentist and always makes a check-up appointment with them on Day 1 of his trips home, to give him time to make follow-up appointments if he needs any treatment. Not sure if he visits his GP or not whilst he's at it!
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Brutalism at its finest in Galashiels.
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I wrote in here before of a wonderful book by an Edinburgh GP. He's written a new long read article, bringing us up to date with the commencement of vaccinations and some of his current caseload, which I found really uplifting overall. Really enjoy reading this guy's stuff - Gavin Francis.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/feb/11/pure-liquid-hope-what-coronavirus-covid-vaccine-means-to-a-gp-doctor?s=09
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Quite enjoyed this wee film. Guy takes day trip from Oban to Coll for £18. Worth a watch for the dolphins alone.
To be honest, even being able to see inside a Calmac ferry is thrilling when I've been landlocked for months.
He misses a wee trick, I suppose, talking about only getting two hours on Coll. You can do it on a Wednesday or a Saturday and get 8 hours on Coll (or 6 hours on Tiree). Even a bit longer (11 and 9) on a Saturday over the June to August timetable.
I imagine that longer day should be enough to have a good explore, certainly long enough to get to the beaches he mentions.
With the advantage of being able to have a pint in the (MV) Clansman on the way!
Another trip I've added to my growing list of "things to do if I ever get back into Tier 1 or 2".
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Yeah, went into Focus to buy a Mogwai skateboard and came away with mug and a t-shirt too!Like the mug, take it you bought it more for Mogwai rather than Focus?
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I'm starting to see clients vacating leases or negotiating reductions in rent. A lot more will be approaching break clauses. It will take a few years for existing leases to unwind, but in 2-3 years more or less every office space will have had some sort of break event / opportunity to consider options without penalty. This will clearly force the decision. Many will of course downsize once given the chance, but no doubt the cost of leasing smaller spaces has rocketed of late.
I love WFH, this is how I did my tea break yesterday. Joyous compared to going into a windowless staff room and making awkward small talk.
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I know! I probably bought a copy from Sportspages on Charing Cross Road. I just fudged the name, it hasn't been a prominent memory for the past 30 years, but it was lurking in there somewhere.No, it was the name of a Gillingham fanzine:
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Missed the worst of it in Peeblesshire.
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The snow is gathering in Braemar
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Yes, looks like you're absolutely right! I've had that wrong for years.I always thought the line was "looks like London Planetarium".0 -
Watching a random episode of The Big Match Revisited. Apropos of very little, Brian Moore (whose head looks uncannily like the London Paladium) pulls out Wattie White's top and cap from the 1908 game vs England. A 1-1 draw.
The same episode features Brighton (Mullery) v Palace (Venables) in front of 27,000 at the Goldstone; Leeds v Man Utd; George Best being sent off for Fulham (Moore; Marsh) at The Dell. A goalie having to change his top for the heinous crime of the top not being plain.
It's dizzying.
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Making a mountain out of a molehill.
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Just along the line from the Govan Destructor! (Terry Hurlock?)Rangers fans heading to game from ibrox train station
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Free beer has arrived in time for weekend.
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Finally able to open this. Plur, 8% DIPA.
The smell on opening the can is incredible. Pineapple and lime. Tasting superb, definitely getting the tropical flavours, also a wee bit of pine nut. Would go down really well with a curry.
Would like to taste it against a Cromarty Man Overboard, an 8.8% DIPA, which is my high watermark for this style of beer.
Excellent beer. The P&B Overtone Fanclub has a new member!
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Playground was better than December, but still clusters of parents. Masks fairly well observed.
Because I'm an arch misanthrope, I've no issues avoiding such clusters.
The wee man was delighted to be back, and I think on balance the time is right.