My Half-finished Life: Brace yourself!

Monday, 22 November 2010

Brace yourself!

Hello. I'm back. I make no promises about how long for, based on my 'half-finished' attempts in the last few months. However, I had to share this little snippet of Edinburgh New Town life, spotted last weekend.

A Saturday stroll through Edinburgh's New Town, on the way to lunch back at Leo's Beanery, enjoying the restrained elegance of the Georgian townhouses. But what's that hanging from the top left balcony?

Ah yes, living in a city centre flat can be so restrictive. Where do you dry your laundry? Where do you store your bicycle? But most of all, where on earth do you hang your brace of pheasants?

1 comments:

Isabelle20 February 2011 00:06
Love it! So New Town!

This looks like an interesting blog. I hope you haven't stopped writing it?
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Cafe Life - places to while away an hour, or two .....

Betty's Tea Room, York Yes, I know it's a cliche and overpriced, but who cares. A Yorkshire institution.
Cafe Artista, Marchmont Road, Edinburgh - the best pizzas outside Italy. Luckily, shuts too early in the evening for us to indulge too much.
Cafe Braunerhof, Vienna - in the heart of the old town, but off the tourist track - the waiters are old enough to remember the Habsburg Monarchy.
Cafe Circle, Canonmills, Edinburgh Delicious food, especially breakfasts, fantastic breads and pastries, and always a friendly welcome from the lovely staff.
Cafe Diglas, Vienna The deepest cakes I've ever seen - or tasted!
Cafe Sperl, Vienna The epitome of a Viennese coffee house - complete with extravagant cakes, coffee on individual silver trays, the nicotine patina of the walls and arrogantly charming waiters.
Grindleford Station Cafe, Peak District - haven't been for years but it used to be my favourite place. Egg and chips (the chips are perfect!), washed down with mugs of coffee. Combined our visits with a good walk to assuage the guilt. Marvellously insulting handwritten signs everywhere telling you what you can and can't do.
Kawiarnia Noworolski, Krakow - large, grand old coffee house in the arches of the historic 'Cloth Hall' in central Krakow. Lenin reputedly held court and plotted the Bolshevik revolution here. Nice cakes as well.
The Damascus Drum, Hawick Cafe and second-hand bookshop - a match made in heaven. Unexpected little oasis of bohemian eccentricity amongst the tweed and Pringle woollens of the Borders.