Same Direction, Different Angle

It’s been so long since I blogged one off – I’m not really sure where to start. I need to ease back into this gently.

As one of the most popular sources of information for travellers to Leith I felt that I had a responsibility to visit every nook and cranny to give you all an insight into Leith Life, the problem is a lunch break can only provide me with a certain amount of travel time and I may have exhausted all blog worthy attractions. This is why a new angle is required, hopefully an extremely acute angle.

So, as old Gordon Brown recently said when he moved home “It’s time for Change”.

After hearing Gordon’s speech, I also decided to move – a whole 5 minutes closer to Leith. This has given me the opportunity to walk to work, which means more time in Leith, which in turn will hopefully provide me with more stories to tell and photos to show.

Not today though, my phone had too much to drink at a party and stopped working, but don’t worry, the internet is full of photos – I’ll improvise.

A new house always requires a new toilet brush, this is a fairly embarrassing piece of kit to buy, nobody wants to admit that their house needs a toilet brush, or even fewer want to carry one home. To avoid embarrassment I decided to go to the one place that nobody is judged, Woolworths. £1.29 seemed like a fairly good deal, until the boy on the till took my £2 and offered me no change, no receipt and no bag. I decided to visit bathroom shelf again to check the price before making my complaint, I needed to be sure that something was wrong – it was. I stormed back to the boy, but it was peak time at the till, so many people in the queue, what do I do? Queue? Or push in to the front? I decided to go find the m the manager to discuss this disaster on the shop floor. He took me across and pushed in for me, I had to gain my 71p, in the end I did, but it took almost 20 minutes. If time is money, time is cheap.

My discussion regarding change caused an even bigger queue, more and more people were listening in, my embarrising product was fast becoming local Leith knowledge. This was the one thing I didn’t want to happen. The queue looked at me in disgust, how could this man in a suit care so much about 71p? Well, I’ll tell you people of the queue, there was no way I was paying £2 for the cheapest toilet brush when there were some even better ones actually priced at £2, that just wouldn’t do.

I was successful, but the whole ordeal was made very difficult by the fact I had no receipt or bag. The 71p came in very handy on the way to work, Greggs sell exceedingly good sausage and bean bakes.

So what’s the moral? Time for change, always make time for change, even if it is a very small amount.

Luckily, my phone works again, so expect some real photos of Leith, more political discussions and a special feature on the Fringe.

Back to Blog

I took a long long break from tap tap tapping on my keyboard, but now I’m back. I have a reliable internet connection, new keyboard, new flat and one more more weekday off. I’ll use this day for a walk to the center of Edinburgh, no doubt something fantastic will be happening to which you will all become privy to.

I’ll be keeping my first post short, as my fingers are already a little tired from finding out where all the keys live.
If you didn’t already know, two other blogs are also back up and running, I always heard that things happened in threes and now I can believe it:

StandinaQueue and  Harry BawBags Blurt.

This reblogging event is quite literally the biggest thing to happen since Take That reformed.

Well, off I go, who knows what wonders we’ll see WithWood.