Soggy with Nostalgia

[akicif]

The long-delayed Farewell to Edinburgh drink will be on Saturday 17th July

(No, I'm not leaving Edinburgh - it's just that for various reasons I never managed to sort out a proper leaving do when I left Edinburgh for Leeds back in the summer of 1984. Having recently found my old Edinburgh pub guides (printed in 1976 and 1979), it seemed like a good idea to go back and see which pubs were still good, and if any of the bad ones had got better.... This eventually evolved into the plan to finally hold the above-mentioned leaving do close to twenty years late)

The idea is to hit a selection of pubs from the 1976 EUSPB Edinburgh Pub Guide - to be drawn from the good ones that are left and the ones that've risen phoenix-like (but not necessarily Phoenix-like) from the ashes of the bad ones, and maybe grab a curry at Kushi's at some point (they've moved, and gone up market, but they sort of fit....).

Currently the plan is to start at Leslie's Bar at about 4pm and work our way north from there in a circuitous manner until we reach the centre of town. Where we go from there is open to suggestion.

(Although this is an event originally postponed from 1984, 80s clothing is not compulsory, and I rather doubt we're likely to end up in an 80s-style club)

Comments

[guybles.livejournal.com]

I'd love to join you, but I will be wrapped up in a stag do - which will, however, be going to Kushis for curry (take that as a warning if you wish).

Anyway, why did you leave Edinburgh? And why return? Sounds like a tale-and-a-half to me...

[purplerabbits.livejournal.com]

Can you give a map refernece for Leslie's?

[green-amber.livejournal.com]

Wow! way cool. Will def try to get to sme part of it. Are you mobile enabled?

[akicif.livejournal.com]

Leslie's is at: 45-47 Ratcliffe Terrace, Edinburgh EH9 1SU

[akicif.livejournal.com]

Indeed, yes, I'll have the mobile with me (07961 446 902).

[akicif.livejournal.com]

Sounds fun. Very few of the bars I was in the night before I married tigermoth are still in their present form, otherwise they may have made it onto the list (still incomplete!) for Saturday.

I left Edinburgh to do a post-doc in drug design and molecular modelling at Leeds. I ended up spending almost eight years in the same department - it would have been longer but our last grant application was mishandled, and some [expletive deleted] came up with a way of more or less automating the other stuff I'd been working on.

After that I did the same computing MSc at Bradford as autopope, hung around and played with this new Mosaic thingy for a while and then went into the Civil Service (casual EO in the Department of Health - getting to answer parliamentary questions, and look at funding of medical and dental research) before finding a post-doc back in Edinburgh doing a range of weird stuff in the Pharmacology Department (no, not weird stuff in that sense!).

This was all going well, and there was a possibility of going off to Japan for a while (which would've been an excellent "Get Out of Worldcon" card), but the Kobe earthquake made an 'orrible mess of Daicel's head office, main factory and foreign research funding....

But that's more than an answer and a half, so I'll cease my meanderings for now.

[yonmei.livejournal.com]

Excellent. In July 1984, I was too young to be allowed to drink in pubs, so this is very well timed. ;-)

[elinor.livejournal.com]

Hope you're having a good night. (Hope to see you and tigermoth Tuesday lunchtime?)

[akicif.livejournal.com]

Had lovely night, thanks. Can't make Tuesday, though, 'cos of work. But have a good one!