Archive for October, 2005

Bloody Council

100_1351Originally uploaded by edinburghsteve.
…and this is what happens when the council choose a monday morning to start some non-urgent roadworks.
In defence of the council, that might be to save paying overtime or weekend rates for the works staff.
On the other hand, if it were, then they wouldn’t be employing staff to go to George Street [...]

October 31, 2005   Posted in: Council, Edinburgh, Politics, Whinge  Comments Closed

Edinburgh and Great Food: No Longer Poles Apart

Ok… that was a pathetic pun, i’m sorry.
Attention Katherine and Svetlana, and anyone else with penchant for Eastern European cuisine:
Lucyna Ellis (can you guess that’s a married name!?) is set to open Deli Polonia on Leith Walk. A colleague of mine who passes it on the bus assures me that the windows are whitewashed and [...]

October 31, 2005   Posted in: Edinburgh, Polski  Comments Closed

A fashion mistake on an unseasonably mild day.

IMAGE_00053 Originally uploaded by edinburghsteve.
It was cold and windy when I woke up this morning, so I thought “I know, i’ll dig out the old green jersey, that’ll keep me warm”.
Now, as the temperature climbs to about 15 degrees (not warm, but too warm for this!) I wish I was wearing something a little cooler [...]

October 28, 2005   Posted in: Photos, Wibble  Comments Closed

Accents.

I like a nice accent, so I do.
Most non-native-English-speakers have nice Accents, some of the English-speaking countries have accents I like, some have accents I’m not so keen on. I guess one big influence is people you meet – a bit like names, you might make negative associations with an accent if you meet someone [...]

October 25, 2005   Posted in: Culture, Whinge  Comments Closed

Tories, Europe, ID Cards

Well… Clarke’s out of the leadership race. Whilst this is something which would initially suggest a more right of-centre from the MPs, it does mean that all the Clarke left-centre people are left with only one moderate-centrist person to back.
Here’s hoping it’s a Cameron vs. A.N. Other final vote. I would imagine that the party [...]

October 19, 2005   Posted in: Politics, Tories  Comments Closed

Viagra is Saving the Planet’s Endangered Species!

Apparently, in a market previously dominated by illegally-and-unethically-gotten deep-fried tiger-penises (and other such endangered-species related lore), Viagra is fast becoming the remedy of choice to cure erectile disfunction in Southern Asia. As such, fewer of the world’s endangered species are being hunted for male organs.From Treehugger.com.

October 17, 2005   Posted in: Wibble  Comments Closed

Too Angry To Think Of A Clever Title

I had all sorts of puns buzzing around my head, but the more I think about this, the angrier I get and when I’m cross, word-play goes out of the window.
City of Edinburgh Council, WHAT ARE YOU PLAYING AT?
When an American President takes a second term in office, you start to see some of the [...]

October 14, 2005   Posted in: Council, Edinburgh, Politics, Whinge  Comments Closed

Exam…. check.

At long last, my OU course (this year, at least) has finished. I had my exam this morning and hopefully I wrote enough about the globalisation of English and its effects, the effects of new communication methods on our approach to English as we know it, and the processes that led to the standardised English [...]

October 13, 2005   Posted in: Catch Up, Personal  Comments Closed