Tag: Dundee
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Spring colours
Today is definitely the first time I have felt springtime year. Walking out on the dog walk just now, you’d be forgiven for thinking it was late afternoon. And in 15 minutes, it’s turn a shade darker. The colours of Balgay Cemetery hit me as Chew-dog and I walked through. This morning on the way…
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Strawberry Bank
I posted this yesterday on Twitter but I’m uploading here with some context. Although it isn’t filled with as many lanes and back alleys as Glasgow or Edinburgh, there are some really old parts of Dundee like this. Strawberry Bank is a lane which passes from Perth Road to Magdalen Yard Road (Windsor Place). It…
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Fancy
Borrowed shirt, jacket, and bowtie off a mate as it’s the Education & Social Work Society Ball. It’s a black tie event, which is the first fail since fancy events just aren’t me. I feel stuffy but I like Ian’s…maroon (?) bowtie.
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The Dundee Beano statues
It is fitting that on the 65th anniversary of the Bash St Kids, I was instructed to take himself to the “dog statue”. (The HEIC version of this is funnier cos his foot is tapping) “I’m on his nose hahaha” no comment that he is hugging the one called Minx who is a trouble maker.…
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Best Day Ever
“Daddy, this is the best day ever! There’s snow EVERYWHERE!” “Yea, just a wee bit though”. “There’s frost on the road, and frost on the grass, and on the road sign, and on the wall, and on the bus stop. And on our feet hahahahaha”. Some people are easily amused 😃
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Black ice
The worst thing that can happen after ice or snow is rain, if the temperature is similar. We’ve had frost and ice the past few days in Dundee and today it rained a bit, but this meant some of the roads and pavement are covered in black ice now and the grass is solid. Means…
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Another Balgay Walk
We’ve started going out at the weekend for a walk around Balgay which I’ve posted about before. Some people take the mantra of Dundee being the “Sunniest City” to new levels: It was another dreary day but this didn’t stop us finding some weird gargoyles at the Pavilion: Those trainers didn’t stay white…
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Dawg
There are Desperate Dan, Dawg, and Minnie The Minx statues in Dundee. Since, y’know, The Dandy. For some reason, passing them yesterday, Ben asks their name, so I tell him as we pass. “I want a photo!” Obviously. It’s a HEIC so Google Photos turned it into a video: He loves the attention.
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Winner Winner Chicken Dinner
Not PUBG, (although I did get an Arcade Solo win earlier) but games night. Jack came over and we played the Discworld Ankh-Morpork game. I won being Vimes. First we went into town for a wander round the farmers market. But 👦🏼 was more interested in climbing the Dundee Dragon when we stopped for lunch…
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