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The purpose of this blog is to register my activities in retirement, and hopefully to show some of the many things it’s possible for a retired person to do in Edinburgh, Scotland and elsewhere.
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Roddy MacLeod's Blog · 39m ago

Shanghaied

So, you step off the plane after a cramped over-night long-haul flight from Amsterdam, with an additional couple of hours wait at Schiphol Airport and before that a short flight from Edinburgh, and although your watch tells you it’s 9 am China time, your body clock simply doesn’t agree, and the weat
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Roddy MacLeod's Blog · 2d ago

Back home

Well, we’re back home after our trip to China, and what a great vacation it was!  We flew to Shanghai where we spent two nights, then it was on a train for two nights from Shanghai to Kunming, then a brief flight to Dali, then by car to Lijiang, then we trekked through the Tiger [...]
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Roddy MacLeod's Blog · 1W ago

Six short stories, plus one

Here’s a list of my short stories, all of which can be found on this blog: 1. A night at the border This one is a travel story with some romance. 2. The most satisfying moment of my life. Are you taking the piss? This is another travel story about not going to the toilet for [...]
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Roddy MacLeod's Blog · 2W ago

27 more Open Access and subscription Journals added to JournalTOCs

I’ve added the following titles to JournalTOCs, the free current awareness service for researchers, students and lecturers. Kerala Journal Of Orthopaedics – (Open Access) Latest Table of Contents via JournalTOCs African Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance - Latest Table of Contents via Journ
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Roddy MacLeod's Blog · 3W ago

My Mandarin crib sheet

I don’t understand                           wǒ bù míngbai Too difficult                                        tài nán le Where are the mens toilets?      Nán cèsuǒ zài Nǎlǐ ? My surname is MacLeod               wǒ de xìng shì MacLeod Good evening                                    wǎnshang hǎo How
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Roddy MacLeod's Blog · 3W ago

Saigon Saigon

I tried out the lunch buffet at Saigon Saigon yesterday.  I was a bit late, having been distracted by the latest issue of Mojo, which I bought and then read in the Virgin Money Lounge.  Here’s one of the tracks from the Mojo CD – Trombone Dixie, by The Superimposers, a UK band. So by [...]
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Roddy MacLeod's Blog · 4W ago

Jimmy Chung’s

I ate a late lunch at Jimmy Chung’s, Waverley Bridge, the other day.  Nice buffet.  Not exactly authentic Chinese cuisine, though. You can eat as much as you like, for less than a tenner.
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Roddy MacLeod's Blog · 1M ago

More on what went wrong with Intute. And – is there a can of worms?

A couple of weeks ago I posted about what went wrong with Intute, and towards the end I gave a few personal details about how I was prevented from presenting, to the rest of the Intute team, a new (and I thought exciting) alternative plan to that of cataloguing the best of the Internet.  The persona
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Roddy MacLeod's Blog · 1M ago

Speaking Chinese

Last night Lindsey and I went out for a meal in a Chinese restaurant.  We managed to ask for a table for two, order drinks, order tea, ask for dumplings and soup as starters, and chicken for a main course with rice, ask for the bill, and ask where the toilets were, all in Chinese. [...]
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Roddy MacLeod's Blog · 1M ago

Nice loo

This is the loo in the place that was once the Scottish Equitable offices in St Andrews Square.  I took a photo of it because I’m thinking of doing up our shower room with the same sort of tiles.
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