Back on the Bike

I was back on my bike this morning and I followed my usual route down Dalry Road, Grosvenor Street, Grosvenor Crescent, Palmerston Place, Drumsheugh Gardens, across the Dean Bridge, down Dean Park Crescent, Carlton Street, Dean Terrace, Hamilton Place, Henderson Row, Eyre Place and Broughton Road.

Usually I see a number of people that I know but some reason or another I didn't see anyone this morning.

My cycle in the mornings take me past a number of interesting places; Space Physiotherapy, the Dean Bridge and the house on the 'city centre' end of it, the infamous Carlton Club (where I met my girlfriend!), the Water of Leith, Hamilton's Bar, The Edinburgh Academy (my alma mater or old school), L'Alba D'Oro (best chippie in Edinburgh), Banana Row Recording Studio, the Droot Flat and the Boneyard, Smithies Pub, MacLauchlan's Saturday Night Kareoke Bar and Canonmills Tesco.

There is a stretch of Eyre Place that incorporates Smithies Pub and the Droot Flat / Boneyard. If you know the area then you will be aware of the cycle track which runs from Banana Row to MacLauchlans.

There have been some strange goings on in this small stretch of Edinburgh recently. One morning I cycled over a pair of heavily soiled blue y-fronts lying outside Smithies. I relayed this news to my mate who I used to live with in Eyre Place and he was astonished. A week later he came back to me saying that he had found two different sets of underwear (male and female), in the very same location, within touching distance of each other. Weird. Like some kind of Grunt Twilight Zone.

Perhaps if you stand in a certain spot outside Smithies at a certain time you are automatically removed of your grunts by forces outwith human comprehension.

There have been no spottings of stray underwear since the 'his and hers'.

My mates (C+T) still live on Eyre Place in the Droot although I don't know if there is a Droot on at the moment and I don't know how much action the Boneyard has seen of late. When I lived there we all had a great time, apart from when were in a 'fizz' obviously.

C often tells me of other strange goings on in the area, such as a ned family beating up a topless taxi driver in the middle of the night in Canonmills Garage.

I like Canonmills Tesco too. I go there for my lunch most of the time.

I have been almost addicted to the Urban Dictionary over the last few days - http://www.urbandictionary.com/ - very amusing.

I have also been eating a lot of cottage cheese with pineapple - low fat, low carbs, high protein.