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Jealous here. I'm glad it was good, and this:

BTJustice wrote:

is a cracker. Just lovely.

PS does the place smell a bit funny like they say?

Aw fucksticks. How sad.

scaryman2u wrote:Is Glasgow Ken still around ?

I was thinking that myself the other day. I do hope so.

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Uncle Oswald wrote:

Involuntary intake of breath for that one. Creepy (in a good way).

It's an amazing piece of work, it really is. Well worth going to North Queensferry to see it up close. Speaking of North Queensferry (and I must read me some Iain Banks soon), I washed up there for a bit. Much photographed is this old stump of a pier: http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/bb282/LuckyPo...

Haud on, haud on: you suddenly start saying part way through the linked piece that Roger designed the bridge and the wall + steps. The source only mentions him designing the wall. It's an interesting find, a nice piece of research by yourself, and it possibly explains the reason for the wall's exist...

Definitely not Cathcart Road or Upper Grahamston, being an attempt at Ye Bridge of Forth:

You've probably never seen a place like this, outside of a Terry Gilliam film or a nightmare. Ponte City in Johannesburg: http://weburbanist.com/2013/10/30/dark-tower-decay-inside-africas-tallest-apartment-complex/ Strangely fascinating place, once you get over the initial horror of that 'core'. Her...

Sceptical here. It's what's normally though of as being good at reading, is it not? Just read a lot. Buy or borrow books. No app required, and no shortcuts. Just read.

Och! Sorry to hear that, banjo.

Refusing to go:

A bit of Gray in the Western Baths (don't ask what I was doing there): http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/bb282/LuckyPoet/DSCF4249-7_zps8202c29f.jpg Lighthouse photo display type thing: http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/bb282/LuckyPoet/DSCF4291-49_zps21d7077d.jpg Built up area: http://i204.photobuc...

Guess where. (Not):

"It was the first thing he ever owned apart from me..." Taut, by the ever wonderful P J Harvey, and the just flat out tremendous John Parish: