Cramond and Granton ride
Hooray – nice day today. Bike ride to Cramond (photo) and back via Granton – 26km.
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Cycling
First bike ride of the New Year
Strava is great fun at this time of year – you can easily be second fastest of the year in
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Life
Hogmanay 2014
Listening to Michael McGoldrick’s “Wired” whilst preparing the Hogmanay pizza – great tunes, bought the album after hearing it on
Scots Music Group Stramash
I went to classes at the Scots Music Group in Edinburgh with (initially) Sarah Hoy and then Eilidh Steel. They
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Fiddle
Scots Fiddle Festival 2014
Had a great weekend at the Scots Fiddle Festival – especially enjoyed the Orkney Folk Fiddle Gathering concert on Friday
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Chromatic nyckelharpa
Da Silver Bow
A couple more tunes added to soundcloud – I can nearly (emphasis on nearly) play a few tunes without fluffs
Astronomy
esa Rosetta mission – Philae lander
I was most impressed by the fantastic images starting to come in from the esa Rosetta Mission lander. An amazing achievement.
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Life
Nordic Fiddlers Bloc concert
Got back from a superb concert by The Nordic Fiddlers Bloc – lots of familiar tunes but some new ones
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Cycling
Bike ride with a purpose!
Not just a bike ride today – actually used it to go and get my Scots Fiddle Festival tickets!
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Cycling
Bike ride – GPS issues!
First proper Edinburgh cycle ride today – though the phone GPS stopped after 15 seconds (battery? pressed stop in the
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Cycling
Little rides
Another couple of little rides over the weeknd (16km and 24km) before bringing Malcolm’s bike back for the winter. Must
Astronomy
Distance scale in the Universe – “Powers of Ten” video
I found this after someone from my old school Facebook group had posted a link to some Hubble Space Telescope
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Cycling
This year’s target reached
Hooray! This was the target for this year – to get up to the old Gatehouse station before the end
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Canal basin
Went for a little walk to the meadows and back by the canal. I hadn’t realised you can walk all
Making space
This one’s really for Edna so she can get some encouragement that us computery chappies can occasionally make space for
Cycling
Slowly getting there …
A couple of good cycle rides over the weekend – gradually getting fitter!
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Tour of Britain 2014
Went to watch the start of the The Tour Of Britain – here are some blokes on bikes …
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