#New Town

[wgm-beautiful-world]

Amazing door in PRAGUE

[science70]

Cwmbran brochure, 1973.

[dokuzadaiyuho]

Nyhavn

[scavengedluxury]

Uránváros, 1964. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.

[scotianostra]

Wee bits of blue sky start to appear looking over Edinburgh from Calton Hill. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[sincerely-angel1]

Monday, January 22, 2024

I never understood what “feeling alone in a crowd” meant until I moved to [SCHOOL]. It doesn’t mean just being surrounded by strangers, no, it’s a peculiar kind of isolation that goes beyond that.

It means more than navigating the sea of unfamiliar faces. It’s the realization that you’re a puzzle piece that doesn’t quite fit into the bigger picture.

In a town where everyone seems to know everyone else, I’m the odd one out, just a newcomer grappling with the unspoken rules of “belonging”.

The bustling hallways became a backdrop to my own solitude.

In this town, feeling alone in a crowd, means standing at the epicenter of social whirlwind, and feeling like a mere spectator. It’s a nuanced emotion, one that goes beyond the absence of familiar faces, highlighting the struggle to find your place in a community that already has its dynamics well established.

You know?

[mooifiasco]

Olympia Dorf München

[baynton]

Mathew Baynton as Derrin in Purves + Pekkala/New Town (2009)

[bermudapube]

Works on the 1960's era Overline house, Crawley, that has been in disrepair for a long time.

[embraphotos]

Princes Street, EH2

[cannedbluesblog]

Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush (1968)

[theodoreangelos]

Jungmann Square in the evening, Prague – New Town, November 2023 Večerní Jungmannovo náměstí, Praha – Nové Město, listopad 2023 Abendlicher Jungmann-Platz, Prag – Neustadt, November 2023 Вечерняя Юнгманова площадь, Прага – Новый город, ноябрь 2023 года

[oathartist]

A trip to Edinburgh

Oath

2023

[total-derangement-of-the-senses]

Song of the Day

1 Jan., ‘23

[scotianostra]

I pride myself in knowing my Scottish history, and especially Edinburgh, not boasting but among my friends on Facebook  I know more than average, Alistair Dawson and Mark McDonald are up there with me, and then there is the main man  in the first pic here, Colin Cargill. Colin took me for lunch on Monday, Haggis Neeps and Tatties at the Guildford Arms, it was delicious. We took a wee walk after to Old Calton Burial Ground on Waterloo Place, that's the one you see when crossing North Bridge, with the obelisk that is The Martyrs Monument, which remembers Scots who  strived for political reform in the 18th century. Anyway, Colin told me the history of the graveyard, after the part of Edinburgh we know as the New Town was built you still had to go through slum areas on the Canongate and High Street to get there, this was until they built a road, which ran/runs from Portobello, London Road. This  now splits at Montrose Terrace going up Regent Road to what is now Waterloo Place, they had a problem here as the graveyard barred their way to Princes Street. They solved this by building the road right through it in 1818. Don;t worry the graves on that part were dug up and moved down Regent Road to a "new" site,  now known as New Calton Burial Ground. Now until Monday it amazes me that I did not know that on the other side of Waterloo Place, next to Howies restaurant is a small part of Old Calton Burial Ground, I can't for the life of me know how I missed this, having more or less walked past the gates on Calton Hill, literary hundreds of times, the entrance is tucked between the rear of Howies and The Parliament House hotel. It's the wee road that comes out at Calton Road/Leith Street is, The Black Bull pub sits there. So it shows that coming up for 58 years old I am still learning things about the city I love. Colin is a guide on the Tour buses you see around Edinburgh, one of the few with a live guide, rather than a recording and headphones. He is also involved with Edinburgh World Heritage an independent charity that aims to ensure the city's World Heritage  status benefits everyone. Colin has also guided tours through Greyfriars Kirkyard, working closely with, now correct me if I wrong Colin, Dr Susan Buckham Graveyards Project Manager with the charity. Colin has invited me to jump on the tour bus with him sometime in the spring, I look forward to doing so and grabbing pics from a perspective I would not normally enjoy.