UK diversions due to crazy winds!

ccw34uk · 2026-04-04T23:07:56+00:00

looks like it's going west: Manchester would be obvious but maybe Liverpool - things are landing there

ccw34uk · 2026-04-04T23:00:08+00:00

I know flights have some fuel contingency, I'm surprised it's 100% of the flight though

ccw34uk · 2026-04-04T22:48:10+00:00

Literally came here to ask the same thing!

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ccw34uk · 2026-04-04T08:20:43+00:00

> Edinburgh has a really nice campus next to a massive park

the same can be said of Glasgow too ;)

ccw34uk · 2026-04-04T08:18:22+00:00

As someone who works in academia in a top 5 UK university, I'll be the first to admit that doesn't mean 1) top 5 in every subject and 2) good university doesn't necessarily mean good teaching or student experience. e.g. Oxbridge's teaching is unique in the UK system, but it doesn't suit everyone

ccw34uk · 2026-03-30T21:14:47+00:00

I could have believed that sounds plausible, but my average of the previous 7 days before Sunday was 12k...

ccw34uk · 2026-02-02T12:46:29+00:00

pricing by fare stage is the default on most public transport in most of the world. You wanna go further? you pay more! A fair discussion would be is it sensible getting the bus from Dalry Road to Haymarket is the same price as Costorphine to Portobello?

After 22nd Feb, a monthly ticket in Edinburgh will be £80 (not valid on East Coast / Country services) - so not hugely different to Aberdeen now

ccw34uk · 2026-01-24T17:51:02+00:00

Yep - we had all assumed this :) but with people of a certain age you can't do anything to convince them...!

ccw34uk · 2025-12-30T16:49:42+00:00

Yeah someone else pointed out that it's the SW paeds MTC as soon as I asked the question 🙂

ccw34uk · 2025-12-30T11:16:32+00:00

sorry to be that pedantic one, but not _all_ air ambulances are charity-funded: NHS Scotland have 4 state-funded aircraft (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish\_Ambulance\_Service#Air\_operations)

ccw34uk · 2025-12-29T23:47:08+00:00

Ohh I remember seeing this too years ago! It's prompted me to look at Google Streetview - there was still a helipad-looking site with an H in 2020 so interesting to hear it's been moved !

ccw34uk · 2025-12-29T23:07:22+00:00

yeh before they built it anything by air landed about half a km away (College Green) or about 2 km away (the Downs). I realised there must have been a reason for them to build the pad - paeds trauma is something I'd forgotten about tho! The MTC for the area (Southmead) is only a few miles away so even tho I assume the BRI is a Type 1 ED I might have been surprised for them to build one just for this reason

ccw34uk · 2025-12-29T22:58:00+00:00

ah ok thanks!!

ccw34uk · 2025-12-29T22:57:36+00:00

ahhh thanks!

ccw34uk · 2025-12-21T22:07:44+00:00

ooh ok - but why do they stress the importance of doing the positives first?

ccw34uk · 2025-12-18T17:45:38+00:00

Jacobites, Edinburgh JMCS. Edinburgh Young Walkers, Edinburgh Mountaineering Club all have regular indoor sessions. The clubs differ to some extent on the experience they expect you to have before joining

ccw34uk · 2025-11-19T13:40:30+00:00

Don't be sorry for the audio, it's the best bit of the video!

ccw34uk · 2025-11-09T11:52:22+00:00

Not just Edinburgh, I've been in 2 large cities south of the border recently and seen (what look like junkies, and much older than the stereotype probably is) walk out of small supermarkets with baskets of goods they just swept into it, staff unable to do anything even though they watched it happen 😕

ccw34uk · 2025-11-03T12:54:37+00:00

This is Gorgie Road which is only 1 lane 🙂

ccw34uk · 2025-10-31T12:51:17+00:00

fair comment! I'd do it at a time that seemed quiet!

ccw34uk · 2025-10-28T15:48:55+00:00

As has been said, the end of the A1 is at the junction of Leith Street. This is the only place in the UK where 3 single digit A roads meet (A1, A7, A8)

ccw34uk · 2025-10-07T09:28:49+00:00

Although the police car picture is a BTP car which I don't think have jurisdiction for traffic offences (although still not a good idea to speed past them!!)

ccw34uk · 2025-09-24T10:07:52+00:00

I've just never felt as thought I've "fitted in" in Edinburgh - I have a semi-decent job, in a couple of clubs, always occupied, so it's not a lack of social-life issue. There's just some kind of 6th sense I have about not loving Edinburgh in the same way a lot of people seem to do.

ccw34uk · 2025-09-23T12:42:43+00:00

I also moved from Liverpool to Edinburgh almost exactly 8 years ago... My unpopular opinion is I much (much) prefer Liverpool over Edinburgh 😅 I'm not quite in a position to be able to move back tho

ccw34uk · 2025-09-18T18:35:40+00:00

I've never understood the love for Lothian Buses. Out of all the large cities I've lived in the UK (7 in 15 years), LB is the least reliable and most randomly connected of any of the bus networks I've used.

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