Patrick Down @smallhours2

Wherein I witter in small, bite-sized chunks, about passing obsessions flickr.com/photos/patrick… Edinburgh Joined February 2010

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Patrick Down @smallhours2

a day ago

@marshallpruett Walk round the old Montjuic Park circuit, see La Sagrada Famiglia even if cathedrals are not usually of any interest. Check out the big market.

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3 days ago

@Dr_W_E_Bulmer @_Ochiedike Carbon dated to the late 13th century. An impressive piece of art, unless its a god with a time machine...

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4 days ago

@Steven_Hyden Nigel Blackwell - "there's a man with a mullet going mad with a mallet in Millets"

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a week ago

@IonaItalia Artisan Roast near(ish) to Waverley is pretty good. Though I mostly just make mine at home

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2 weeks ago

@JohnRentoul @theipaper 2, 3, 6, 7 and 10. Though a couple were guesses

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2 weeks ago

@Dr_W_E_Bulmer Though given a choice between the two I'd always back the corrupt against the tyrannical...('vote for the crook, not the fascist' to recall an election slogan of yesteryear)

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2 weeks ago

@Dr_W_E_Bulmer My social media keeps advertising sports betting and weight loss products at me. Which reassures me that they know absolutely nothing about me...

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3 weeks ago

@victimsofcomics I could imagine a certain kind of gun-lovin' huntin' Montanan calling their son Bearsden. Or how about Milngavie?(pronounced however you want)

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3 weeks ago

@Dr_W_E_Bulmer One for the rainy days flickr.com/photos/patrick…

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@chickenstrip007 @KVanValkenburg And Aaron Dessner co-wrote a lot of Taylor Swift's hits in his 40s - indeed professional songwriters writing love songs for others to perform are I would guess often a lot older...

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a month ago

@spgjlg_simon @ClintBond Jump out a tenth floor window and try...

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a month ago

@Dr_W_E_Bulmer Not quite the same thing and getting into specifics, but I can think of an issue where many of the people I agree with seem motivated by the worst reasons and those on the other side always seem very pleasant and reasonable...

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a month ago

@PlantsBikesBass @fesshole I heard it as "head for vacate, she says. Just like Marie Antoinette" no idea what I thought it might mean...

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a month ago

@IonaItalia As a keen cyclist there are some pretty bits even in the central belt - some great quiet roads in Midlothian and the coast between Bo'ness and Queensferry. Don't know the Glasgow side so well

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a month ago

@IonaItalia That's unfortunate - had vague memories of being on trains passing through Camelon. Seenslike the flipside of the gentrification of all the more run-down parts of Edinburgh* (*actually, not all of them, I've a friend who lives in Wester Hailes, which is very much not gentrified)

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Patrick Down @smallhours2

2 months ago

@BigDee_1996 @fesshole Not unknown in Scotland - at least when I went 30 years ago. Also sometimes people get bumped up a year at secondary school (or, again, they did 30 years ago)