Talk Porty ~ Portobello

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We need to reharl or similar our chimney externally. Any recommendations out there?

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Another great Leith restaurant is Tapa (used to be FitzHenry long long time ago). Great food, feels very authentically Spanish, food very quickly served and atmosphere is great.

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Hi, a friend of a friend is trying to rehome her 15yo cat as she is needing to travel away often to nurse her mother, and the cat is suffering from increased boarding. She describes him thus: Handsome grey and white neutured male cat 15 yrs old (we think) but seems much younger Has thyroid tablets b...

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Quite possibly - the current manager is leaving to pursue a long desired dream in London. She is sad to be leaving Mei Li as they have been her employers since she left school, but if you can't a chase a dream when you're barely in your 20s ....

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Are Mairi Campbell and David Francis the same people credited on the Sex & the City movie for their rendition of Auld Lang Syne? Small world if so as a friend and I just slo-mo'ed the credits to find out exactly who did sing it.

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SSPCA just phoned to say someone handed him in to the Dog and Cat home. Yay.

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Anyone bird savvy willing to take a look along porty prom behind the bus depot? There is a very large seabird there, (at 2.30pm) sitting just off the red concrete and didn't move when I stopped and had a good look at him. I think he needs help but am not sure. Have left message with RSPB HQ but they...

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No kidding - a fox just tried to snap at my big cat while he (cat) was sitting on our front windowsill.

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Anybody lost a rather lovely silver tabby with white bib, mittens and socks? In the Lee Crescent/Windsor Place vicinity? Looks very well fed. He/She has been at ours for the past 2 days.

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The cows weren't allocated, you had to buy them. You could paint your own design or pay again to have a design done for you (I think) and then they will be auctioned for charity. I think the initial payment was charitable as well, but am not sure. Just passing on in vaguest terms what a friend who d...

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Especially if they had stepped over a pair of shoes on their way out the door that had been sitting there for 7 days.

But since it's the season of goodwill ... perhaps I would let them off.

Also, I need to think about that number plate. It seems almost too ... meaningful somehow.

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1. personalised number plates that make no sense
2. people who don't put their indicator on to signify turning right until the lights go green
3. people who don't clean up after their dogs
4. litterers
5. domestic blindness

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Fair dos and apologies. Just slightly miffed that some thoughtful discussion about levels of tolerance to what would normally be considered intolerable became a bit of a slanging match with little chance for anyone else to jump in. I accept that Dada's opponents are also his real world mates, but th...

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Bravo foxy for starting this thread. Sadly, (to me) the thrust of Dadaist's initial questions were completely overrun by the 'batting' back and forth of 2/3 very opiniated forum posters. Also, asking answers on gross violence or inhumane acts are often very easy to answer. It is the many shades belo...

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Was there any need to mention this? "The homes are all believed to be council houses or housing association properties." :shock: :shock: Absolutely no need to do so and if the report was attempting to be objective it should have been subbed out. Cynically, perhaps it was to reassure Scotsman/EEN re...

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an electrician and a central heating person? Obviously they can be two different people!

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Well, I saw 'I'll Fly Away' and will second that vote. Also Children of the Stones; Knock 3 Times (about a kind of evil imp who lived in a pumpkin - I hope it exists because I fear I may have dreamt it) and A Very Peculiar Practice (I think it was called, it was set in a uni and always had a couple ...

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Are you my brother?

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Does anyone in Lee Crescent-East Brighton Crescent own a ginger cat with a white bib front? He has been loitering in our garden the past few days and I don't know if he's lost or just sociable. My two cats keep giving him hairy eyeballs through the windows, and the other ginger tom who thinks he's g...

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My wee one will be one of the merry throng threading their way down to the new nursery when it opens. I've ridden the bike round there a few times and it does look enormous, but hopefully it'll make a good neighbour. Better than a bunch of anodyne shoeboxes masquerading as 'luxury' apartments built ...

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When I was at school (along time ago in a land far far away) the canteen only served healthy food and you weren't allowed off the school premises at lunchtime without a lunch pass - and it meant that you had to go home. Students seen using local shops, chippies etc would be given detention and your ...

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I'm looking forward to seeing it finished. I have been giggling to myself that the most significant feature thus far seems to be the garbage bins (nice colour, but).

Still, since I would like everyone to pick up litter perhaps bins should be made a feature of.

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I had a budgie called 'Algie' because she was green (and in a nod to Flowers for Algernon). Because she couldn't fly she used to stump around the house and up to our big fat cat and tweak his ear hairs until he would slink away defeated. We lost her for 24 hours once when we had left her in the gard...

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Was the place 5m out of Durham called Royston Vasey? What a great tune for an icecream van.

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'dog bombs' for when they're lying around, not sure how it works in smeared state - dog shrapnel?

or what's that other great Scots word: keecccch?

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My aunt, upon whom I swear Barry Humphries modelled Dame Edna (when she was simply Mrs, housewife superstar) remembers the main drag (hem, hem) in the 60s so well, that she says her idea of heaven is to be let loose in Princes Street with a wallet full of money and all the time in the world to shop ...

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You could listen to 'Have a little faith in me' by John Hiatt.

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Dadaist wrote:
Porty wrote:I know what you mean i used to live next door to a Herb Alpert fan.
Tijuana talk about it?

...and now you're just Strangers on the Shore?

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Was anyone else in the High St last week when a warden lost his ATB receipt and tried to catch it before it blew away? There were a few folk muttering: 'gonna give yerself a ticket then?'

In fairness, he did nearly get himself run over trying to get it back.

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Keating has a sister - Matilda - who is all fur coat and nae knickers, not that she deigns to dally with anyone. She was quite possibly a Mitford sister in a previous life or Fife equivalent. Monstrously elegant, as only a goddess can be. You are right, Keating is a completely lovely chap, and liter...

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I wish our black cat was as straightforward. We are living with passive aggressive peeing all over our kitchen cupboards (drop by for a cuppa anytime!) all because a tiny little pretty grey cat has taken to dropping by. Keating could sit on her and she would never walk again - but no, he's all compa...

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Given the topic name, could Porty and Dadaist solve the issue as a couple of cats would? A bit of posturing, some loud howling, a couple of tentative rushes, a lot of loose fur flying and finally an uneasy truce called?

... oh, hang on ...

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I have long associated cats with an indication of a friendly neighbourhood. Cats lure you to their front doors, invite you in to scritch their heads and socialise, they are outerageously hedonistic, know that when the sun shines it is time to lie on your back and bask, and always know where the best...

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Sorry all - should have posted earlier: Gemini swooped and got the breadmaker early on - I hope it is treating her well. It was nice waking up to the 'just baked' smell of bread when I was organised enough to do it.

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Does anyone want to offload their brown bin? The council overlooked the fact that we are 2 properties tucked away in Lee Cres and just left the one bin.

I was going to phone and get one delivered, but reusing an unwanted one seems so much more gemutlich.

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