Talk Porty ~ Portobello

Many , many thanks for the sponsorship and support. I'm an old cynic at heart, but found the support on the Prom really uplifting, albeit a little early doors as far as the eventual outcome was concerned ! Thank God I finished the damned race. Special mention for the generosity in response to the th...

Well for what it's worth I think organisations like PEDAL do a lot of good for the community. In the 10 years that I've lived here things have definitely improved. We've had new pavements, relaid cobbles and visible improvements in local hostelries, but best of all, with inestimable improvement to t...

This new design is great. It's prompted me to post for the first time in ages

Just to put Homer's time into perspective, he finished 62nd out of 4090 finishers. It means that 98.5% of the field finished behind him, including a lot of much younger athletes. It truly is a remarkable feat. Speaking of which, how are the feet Homer? 63 to be precise, but who cares ? Support was ...

I like to think my avatar captures my philosophical side.

Only a week down the line and I can now walk downstairs to post my thanks for the support last Sunday.It certainly gave me a lift, although a sensible course of action would have been to drop out at Silverknowes. Anyway, I'm now nursing a torn calf -muscle and, of course, being nursed superbly by my...

Well, I'd have said that to get ready for a May marathon you'd want to be capable of running 10 miles just now and to build up each week from that, to be running nearly 20 by the beginning of May. I don't think they'd say this in the training manauals though - they tend to be more conservative. If y...

I'll term myself an 'expert' for this Ed...It depends what you mean by reasonably fit. What's the furthest you can run at any pace without stopping ? The key to marathon training is to be able to run quite a few training runs that approach the distance, which can take a while to build up to if you'r...

OK, point taken. Maybe I should just vote yes and wait for the law of unintended consequences to take effect

I think bus-conductors might also make some bus users feel more secure and perhaps more inspectors might help tighter adherence to schedules ? From the start of the consultation process the argument seems to have been if you are against traffic congestion then you must be in favour of congestion cha...

Is it to be believed that the congestion charge will stay at £2 for any length of time ? At that level it's hard to imagine that many people will be dissuaded from driving through the cordon. A two way bus fare from Portobello to the City centre currently costs £1.60 and parking charges should...

and then, when you get everything eventually in its final place you wonder - is the red terminal or the black terminal the negative one? The speaker cable says connect the inner cores to the negative terminals, but theres no indication of which ones they are... :? As far as I know the red is positi...

No, I meant Homer as in 'The Illiad' and 'The Odyssey'. Who's this other Homer ?

Thanks Bob. You've forced me to finally register. I suppose something good can come from the evils of drink. I'm not even registered to run the marathon yet, but I'll get on the case. Charity to be decided. Training run
over the Pentlands in 2 weeks time Bob ?