Posts Tagged: people
Fraser & Grumpy and Calum’s Birthday. 4th & 5th May 2013
Fraser & Grumpy watching Toy Story, above, and the next day at Eildon Terrace for Calum’s 17th Birthday.
It’s not just the memory of what you were up to at 17 that’s frightening, it’s the memory of what you’d been up to for a few years already.
Fettes Rise AGM 23/04/13
My neighbours, at the Fettes Rise AGM. There are challenges to living in 60’s designed housing and we discuss them every year. But mostly, it’s unbeatable.
Plane, train, pub 18/03/13
Evening travel to London pub by plane then train. Edinburgh airport is a lot nicer when it’s not first thing in the morning (security staff are much more friendly). Kings Cross pub below is a surprising mix of tourists staying in local cheap hotels with names you’ve heard of to wasted old folk staying in cheap local places you haven’t.
The Royal Thames Yacht Club 5/3/13
The Bond Club. I had a good time, so apologies to the subjects who don’t actually look as odd as they do here. 
Fix on Whitecross Street 27/02/13
We lived on Whitecross Street until 2007. It’s changed lot’s since then. This was a pub I never went into: too scared. Kev & Pam went in one night and someone was chucking darts randomly around the bar. Now it’s a coffee shop where I stopped for breakfast.
17/01/11 What makes a nice place to sit?
We are working with an artist to make some chairs to welcome people back to a place they haven’t lived for a while. As part of this, I’ve been thinking about and looking at what makes a nice place to sit.
Razzo in St Andrew’s Square.
A window with an interesting view.
14/12/12 St James Centre, Edinburgh
The car parks are the most enduring bits of the St James Centre in Edinburgh: the shops get tarted up from time to time with little benefit and the big office that sits over it all, New St Andrews House, is shut and awaiting demolition (see below). The car parks carry on just as designed in the late 1960’s. Many people hate the concrete finishes, but its the inward looking approach that’s the problem.
Another street I found myself sitting on this week: Caledonian Road in London. A proper street with shops, pubs and cafes and a contrast to the inward looking 60’s vision in Edinburgh but equally different from the inward looking 21st century regeneration vision that surrounds it at Kings Cross.
Above: At the new Kings Cross the action is all inside: the coffee stall is introduce to add some focus. Recent travel below (why I think about Kings Cross quite a bit).
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