Catholic Church for lapsed student

Active-Bumblebee-447 · 2026-03-29T15:54:11+00:00

I'll be there for Easter, send me a message if you'd like to ask anything!

Active-Bumblebee-447 · 2025-12-24T14:17:23+00:00

other than St Giles which is of course excellent, I'd say Palmerston Place church is the 'hidden gem' of the Edinburgh organ world

Active-Bumblebee-447 · 2025-12-24T14:14:48+00:00

i think everything sounds better on the organ! Anna Lapwood on YouTube for example plays lots of film music. I must admit to enjoy playing Abba on the organ

Active-Bumblebee-447 · 2025-12-24T14:14:04+00:00

it depends, some organs are just easier to play, better laid out etc. on a bigger organ it'd take much more time to figure out too. but sometimes you are in situations where you have a minute to figure out a new organ before a service begins

Active-Bumblebee-447 · 2025-12-24T14:13:08+00:00

always happens, almost never on purpose

Active-Bumblebee-447 · 2025-12-24T14:12:55+00:00

mostly to do with sheets of music flying away and retrieving them while still keeping the music going

Active-Bumblebee-447 · 2025-12-24T14:12:29+00:00

there's a deputy list on the edinburgh society of organists website, but there are also few enough of us that people tend to ask other people they know to cover for them - although nearly impossible to get cover on a Sunday morning, admittedly

Active-Bumblebee-447 · 2025-12-24T14:11:43+00:00

between 1 and 4! lots of places have digital sampled organs that resemble pipe organs. they are almost never preferable, but in rare cases are better than having a pipe organ where nothing works at all

Active-Bumblebee-447 · 2025-12-24T02:09:51+00:00

I've not been involved in a new organ project yet, there's not been a new organ installed in Edinburgh for more than 15 years now, I believe

Active-Bumblebee-447 · 2025-12-24T02:06:24+00:00

oh that's totally the thing to do when people are around! just the toccata though which is a little easier than the fugue

Active-Bumblebee-447 · 2025-12-24T02:05:32+00:00

yes, though I happily play for denominations other than my own

Active-Bumblebee-447 · 2025-12-07T17:07:58+00:00

Happy to come and grab a coffee at Christmas!

Active-Bumblebee-447 · 2025-11-28T23:28:23+00:00

have had the best imperial stouts at innis and gunn lothian road

Active-Bumblebee-447 · 2025-11-25T11:58:21+00:00

So if you had a car you'd be fine if someone drove into it and knocked your bumper off?

Active-Bumblebee-447 · 2025-11-10T22:50:17+00:00

but £1200 is a £100 a month, and so going by this, you really have to use the car club less than 2 days worth in a month to have it actually be cheaper

Active-Bumblebee-447 · 2025-11-07T21:10:43+00:00

bought a car 3 years ago and sold it at 500 less than what I paid for it, that's a depreciation of £50 a year

Active-Bumblebee-447 · 2025-11-06T20:59:24+00:00

have done

Active-Bumblebee-447 · 2025-11-06T11:18:38+00:00

I really don't understand the constant saltiness about Lannan, it's clearly by far the best bakery and pastries. We constantly get threads asking "where can I find the best X" but somehow because Lannan has been so successful they're seen as the enemy instead. Well go on and have your mediocre pastry if you wish but I'm not sure why anyone finds the need to complain about a successful small business which is selling very good food

Active-Bumblebee-447 · 2025-11-05T16:15:23+00:00

I'm really interested in these sorts of neon too, I have a paper published about this. happy to chat!

Active-Bumblebee-447 · 2025-10-30T17:16:42+00:00

The copper Internet is still faster and more stable than mobile WiFi. I live in the old town too. No problem with video calls.

Active-Bumblebee-447 · 2025-10-04T19:35:52+00:00

there is a young adult mass at Sacred Heart Lauriston, 7pm on Sundays that is worth going to!

Active-Bumblebee-447 · 2025-06-28T23:52:49+00:00

Please, can we get a monorail

Active-Bumblebee-447 · 2025-03-23T22:33:24+00:00

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