Archive for the 'edinburgh' Category

Sir, can you step out of the car please.

Some­thing dif­fer­ent hap­pened to me on Fri­day. Hav­ing just arrived at home from work, I was still sit­ting in the car, wait­ing for the song on the radio to fin­ish and to make good use of the time I was col­lect­ing the park­ing receipts and other bits of paper scat­tered around the car. As I was […]

Edinburgh’s Fringe Strangest Venues

Now that Edin­burgh fringe fes­ti­val is about to start, the city is full of fresh hope­fuls, with their bright eyes enjoy­ing the glitz and glam­our a fes­ti­val brings. Only a hand­ful will come back next year, I love the naïve view that they have, think­ing that the city has not seen any­thing like them before […]

Rubbish

So. The bin men in Edin­burgh have almost reached a deal (See here), this means my bin which was col­lected once in 6 weeks is going to be emp­tied reg­u­larly again. I don’t under­stand how unions can expect no redun­dan­cies, no cuts when every sec­tor in the city is being hit. Work­ing for the coun­cil does […]