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The one time I've been in there I liked it, quite happy, but if others want further up town so they can get there more easily then that's fine too.

Let's make a decision tomorrow!

no. that's "our swimmer".

alex: if there's no thursday-night fappery, i won't bother coming through for the gig (sorry, swimmer one) ... saturday afternoon is cool, though. hurrah. wherever we may end up.

I can't see the hordes that will attend this fitting into the Cameo cinema bar, but then I also sympathise with those who don't live in Edinburgh and don't want to go looking for the Cameo bar.

Here's a suggestion - how's about the (Car) Wash on the mound? It's easy to get to for travellers.

i'd be well up for the cameo bar. it'd be like a homecoming. of sorts.

Kays Bar? The barman has a waxed Dali type moustache.

i haven't been in the car wash since 1994, but i remember it as a vile seventies theme pub populated by second-year english-lit undergraduates in silly hats talking about how they were taking up the didgeridoo.

Neil, Kay's Bar is a great idea, and the bloke is funny; like the bar man in Withnail and I, but I'm fairly sure it's been something else for about four years now. Come to think of it, maybe I'm thinking of another place. I think it's called Indigo now. Ah! No, I'm thinking of Aubrey's, which had a similar landlord and was in a similar place.

OK. We should vote. The voting closes Monday at 8 o'clock. The (practical) suggestions are:

- The Cameo in Leith
- The Car Wash
- Kay's Bar in the new town

what sort of time are we doing this thang?

3pm was mentioned at some point, wasn't it?

i can be there for about 4ish. or so.

Me: "Do you know what this band are called?"
Bloke sitting next to me: "SHITE"
Me: "Is that actually the name of the band, or just your opinion?"
Bloke: "My opinion"
Me: "It would be good if you got to name every band you saw. I get the feeling most of them would be called 'SHITE'"
Bloke: "Yes, they would. Why, what would you call this band?"
Me: "I would called them 'I'm quite enjoying this'"
Bloke (giving me a funny look): "Oh"

but they'd cry.

i might wait until andrew stands me up for lunch again or something :)

i commuted from marchmont (15 minutes' swift walk from waverley) to duke street for three months back in 1997, and i have to say i wasn't very happy. but then i moved to glasgow and i was even less happy ... which made me realise the reasons for my unhappiness were nothing to do with the commute and more to do with me being a knob about a girl :)

once i'd got that sorted, i went out and got whammed and all was well again.

anyway: alext has been doing the big commute for at least a year. over to him.

If you're going to do it, that's probably about as easy as it gets; it's just 5 minutes from Waverley and you're quite close to Queen Street. I know people who live in Houston (near Paisley that is!) that commute every day.

Parking is not good in Edinburgh, certainly in the city centre. You can park in and around Bellvue, but it's not easy and you'd have to get in early. I would avoid driving, unless you're likely to be in work very early and don't mind a ten minute walk or so from where you park.

There's a job going at my current place of employment which I want a lot more, but I handed in my application a fortnight ago and they reckon it'll be another 1-2 weeks before they have a shortlist for interview ffs! My current contract finishes at the end of December and I don't really want to start the new year as a temp so that's why I'm looking elsewhere.

x-post: is it near Harvey Nicks, or am I looking at the map upside down?

no that is a different pub (and i think it's Howe St/Circus Lane corner yr thinking of)

Kay's is, according to hmmm's link, on Jamaica St - ie. in the area bounded by Howe St, India St, Heriot Row & Royal Circus

It's five minutes walk to Harvey Nicks. It's just down from Lewis's. Leigh's right; that area's dead nice. I'm moving to near there soon.

Snowy - OK... Confuses me a bit right enough; I walk past there every day to go to work! I'll open my eyes tomorrow.

I have commuted to Glasgow since October 2002. It is totally soul-destroying and horrible. I only have to do it for about four more days thank fuck. Part of the problem for me is that I have to walk up Leith Walk, get the train, get the world's most rubbish tube train to Hillhead and then walk up the hill to walk, which takes 1 hour 40 mins. on average, which is 3 hours 20 minutes of my day wasted.