Sunday 13 October 2019
it's been a long time!
just a little note to myself to get back to work on this 'blog'! Too long I have been absorbing stuff on youtube, Google Earth and a bit of re-reading! A liking for beer and football, Scottish politics since the referendum in 2014, and chess, which has become a bit of an obsession! Driving around Edinburgh over the years, seasons changing and so on. Technology, phones and such leaving me a question as to how to proceed with all this stuff. A couple of equinoctal sunsets are most relevant, one from the Fa'side with the sun setting behind ArthursSeat, a spring equinox in 2018, and one the 2019 autumn equinox, setting behind Calton Hill from the Portobello Road, in line with the Scottie corner although my phone camera is not very good and the suns light burns out the columns of 'Edinburgh's disgrace' which can normally be seen through the Jock's Lodge gap. The first two are of March 2018, form the Fa'side ridge the sun going down behind A. Seat. The second two of the Jock's Lodge sunset. The second shows Arthur Seat in context. At least getting going again!!!
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Happy New Year ya old Bugger and get back to work check distance and heading ( Cairnpapple to Thornborough henges 144.7 miles / 144.7 degrees ) for starters . 366 Geometry is the way forward .
Scotland for the Scots!
Regards Hector 07706010143
hi Hector, great to hear from ye! Only this minute, 23.35, 04/02/2020 got round to checking back in! Think about you 'quite' often, how are you ? Still in Peebles? Hell of a lot of shit s gone dooon the burn since whenever, 07-ish!? Call you soon! My no: 07342874815. Just back frae the pub, 'half' pishd! 'Working' on a Prof Thom sunrise angle, Eildon-Rosslyn chapel- Hillend Fort- Dalmeny Kirk - Hawes Pier - midpoint of the fucking Forth Bridge, for some 12 years now, and some more whacky shit! Good night to you and yours, shall be in touch soon! T
Hi, I am a long term fan of your blog. I am currently at Cammo where I am exercising every day during lockdown. There is a well known water tower near Cammo, and just beyond it a hillock. I felt like there was probably a ley going through that hillock and tried to do dowsing on it (branches, very unsophisticated). It seems to join up with some very curious large rocks (possibly standing stones) set in the north west bank of the River Almond, near the bridge over the rapids and the military housing at ?Craigiehall, which seems to have a lot of energy going on (perhaps due to water nearby). Very interesting results and seemed to tie in with what you said about Maybury.
Unfortunately many of the fields around Cammo are about to be built on so some of the flavour of the area is soon to be lost.
p.s. Check out the Literary Corstorphine blog, one of the better resources on the area. ;) https://litcors.wordpress.com/
hi 'anonymous', yes Cammo is of interest, John Clerk owned it, back in the 18th century. He started at Penicuik, then also Mavisbank, centre of a hexagonal system, and on a side of a pentagon with Roslin chapel as corner. The hillock has always intrigued me, the wter tower I believe was built later in the 19th century. Shame about the building plans. The Green Belt is not so green now, Gogar, Straiton, Gilmerton Dykes, the whole of Maybury all going!!!!
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