The week as we saw it

[bookiebasher]

Jason Day the golfer.

Lebron gave Day's missus a right good seeing to , so much she had to have a neck brace fitted.

She got took away on a stretcher with the crowd clapping. Don't really understand why people clap
when someone has got injured.

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Clouds of smoke and steam billow from chimney stacks as a man pulls a trolley through a neighbourhood next to a coal fired power plant in Shanxi, China. Photographer Kevin Frayer visited the heavily polluted area to document life in a region that is the leading producer of coal in China with an annual coal production exceeding 300 million metric tonnes.

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some of this portfolio of pictures is really good

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/12057846/Life-in-Shanxi-the-coal-producing-capital-of-China-in-pictures.html?frame=3530343

The air must be really bad there, that poor bloke is having to filter it through a fag.

[TightEnd]

some of the scenes from Lancashiore today are incredible

St Helens today

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[TightEnd]

York

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Leeds

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[TightEnd]

Tadcaster high steet

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[TightEnd]

[tikay]

^^^^

Such a great photograph.

Needs no words, does it?

[Geo the Sarge]

^^^^

Such a great photograph.

Needs no words, does it?

Doesn't quite work 

Geo

[tikay]

Behave, George, behave.

Princes St for you on NYE?

[Doobs]

Behave, George, behave.

Princes St for you on NYE?

Was very good, was beginning to despair of the endless fuckwittery of the internet. 

[Geo the Sarge]

Behave, George, behave.

Princes St for you on NYE?

A quiet one for me as it has been these past few years, Princes Street is for visitors, old school Edinburgers gather at the Tron.

Calton Hill has always been a great platform for viewing the Castle fireworks, however the council are closing it down due to health and safety, the excuse being poor lighting.

On the 30th they have a torchlight procession with fireworks on Calton Hill so don't understand why they don't just sell more torches next day for those who wish to take up a traditional viewpoint, Gatters and Claire joined me and Mrs Geo a couple of years back

The cynic in me says it's something to do with too few tickets sold for Princes Street this year

http://www.edinburghshogmanay.com/events/torchlight-procession/

http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/what-s-on/tron-to-ring-at-hogmanay-for-first-time-in-decades-1-3957886

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tron_Kirk

All the best for 2016

Geo

[tikay]

Behave, George, behave.

Princes St for you on NYE?

A quiet one for me as it has been these past few years, Princes Street is for visitors, old school Edinburgers gather at the Tron.

Calton Hill has always been a great platform for viewing the Castle fireworks, however the council are closing it down due to health and safety, the excuse being poor lighting.

On the 30th they have a torchlight procession with fireworks on Calton Hill so don't understand why they don't just sell more torches next day for those who wish to take up a traditional viewpoint, Gatters and Claire joined me and Mrs Geo a couple of years back

The cynic in me says it's something to do with too few tickets sold for Princes Street this year

http://www.edinburghshogmanay.com/events/torchlight-procession/

http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/what-s-on/tron-to-ring-at-hogmanay-for-first-time-in-decades-1-3957886

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tron_Kirk

All the best for 2016

Geo

Is Calton Hill that sort of grassy mound or hill with those sort of derelict sticky up buildings on it? Pretty sure I walked up there once all the way from Balmoral Hotel.

[Geo the Sarge]

Behave, George, behave.

Princes St for you on NYE?

A quiet one for me as it has been these past few years, Princes Street is for visitors, old school Edinburgers gather at the Tron.

Calton Hill has always been a great platform for viewing the Castle fireworks, however the council are closing it down due to health and safety, the excuse being poor lighting.

On the 30th they have a torchlight procession with fireworks on Calton Hill so don't understand why they don't just sell more torches next day for those who wish to take up a traditional viewpoint, Gatters and Claire joined me and Mrs Geo a couple of years back

The cynic in me says it's something to do with too few tickets sold for Princes Street this year

http://www.edinburghshogmanay.com/events/torchlight-procession/

http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/what-s-on/tron-to-ring-at-hogmanay-for-first-time-in-decades-1-3957886

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tron_Kirk

All the best for 2016

Geo

Is Calton Hill that sort of grassy mound or hill with those sort of derelict sticky up buildings on it? Pretty sure I walked up there once all the way from Balmoral Hotel.

Yep, as well as the "derelict"  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Monument_of_Scotland

there is also the Nelson Monument, who'd have thunk us Scots capable of honouring one of Englands greats eh.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Monument,_Edinburgh

A plaque above the entrance to the monument carries the following dedication:

   "To the memory of Vice-Admiral Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, and of the great victory of Trafalgar, too dearly purchased with his blood, the grateful citizens of Edinburgh have erected this monument: not to express their unavailing sorrow for his death; nor yet to celebrate this matchless glories of his life; but, by his noble example, to teach their sons to emulate what they admire, and, like him, when duty requires it, to die for their country."

Geo

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Great picture.