if i move back to Edinburgh nad i arrange a meet up who would come

[nailpolish]

day or night?

I use their own brand Baby soap.

It's terrific and the only thing that doesn't break out DD1s skin.

Other places sell it, though, like Seesaw in Broughton and the gift shop in the Botanics.

Napiers has moved it behind the counter.

Their infant starflower cream, however, is still out and it is SPLENDID!

haymarket

corstorphine

prob too dear

nice area

and here

totally random assortment for you ndp

I think the Duke of Buccleuch owns land in Edinburgh through some distant connection with the Dukes of Argyll. Which doesn't really explain a lot does it. he also owns Dalkeith Palace, whci is in Edinburgh, and Bowhill in Selkirk.

Thanks expat, I shall pay them another visit! Dd gets quite dry skin so the starflower stuff sounds lovely.

The Links were his. He may have sold them off, though.

That land is worth a fortune now.

There is still a Duke of Buccleuch, but he lives in the West somewhere.

How strange, seeing as that Argyll is in the West, too.

Leith was as crowded as the Old Town at several points in history, and has the mass graves to show for it, apparently.

Corstophine gives me a panic attack from claustrophobia.

It drives me spare just to drive round there.

expat, Bruntsfield links was also a plague burial site. I can't remember if the bodies were removed or if they are still there. It is strange to think that Bruntsfield was once way outside the town!!

The borders of Greyfriars cemetary were also much larger than where they are now, and again, a mass grave site.

Leith, of course, was also its own town, hence the pub 'The City Limit', w/one of its sides being in Leith and the other in Edinburgh.

Corstophine was a village, as was D-Mains, New Haven, etc.

New Haven was not considered part of Edinburgh when my MIL was a child.

i like corstorphine, dont fancy walking up that hill tho!

i like corstorphine, dont fancy walking up that hill tho!

I wouldn't live in Corstophine unless I were paid to do so.

And since that will never happen, guess we won't be living there .

expat dont you mean "the Worlds End" pub? on the high st?

not even up the hill expat? there are some great houses there

No, I don't mean the World's End, which marked where where the Flodden Wall was, and indeed, if you carry on down that hill towards the Pleasance you will see what remains of that wall.

I mean 'The City Limit' up on the Walk.

Is that pub still called that expat? I was having vague recolections of the Boundary bar on Leith walk?

Not even up that hill, Naily, would I stay there.

Nope.

Claustrophobic. Too stiffling there.

And full of knobs.

It was the Boundary bar when DH was younger. But it is now called The City Limit.

And it is still there. Just passed it this morning.

oh right

sorry expat

oh right

sorry expat

The World's End has nice food!

A bit too touristy for DH, though.

He prefers Leith, being from around that area and having lived in N. Edinburgh all his life.

Ah, it was the Boundary bar in my youth too. Went there too often as it opened at 5am. Usually after playing the fiddle in the Royal Oak until all hours then filling in a couple of hours at someones house before 5am opening. Oh dearie me....

leith is my favourite too but finding a place to stay with a garden is difficult there

even porty, where i used to stay, is mostly flats, or easter rd, where i stayed too

willowbrae is gorgeous and near town

Can I come when I am visting the folks?

My sil lives in Morningside and her pil live in Willowbrae.

You would try New Haven, naily. That might not be so dear and more garden opportunity.