#musselburgh

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Musselburgh Lagoon, Edinburgh

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finished a hat for my old roommate!

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Nem volt ez rossz a mai nap

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Pics from my walk today

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Fishermen Statues, Fisherrow Mussleburgh

Two wee statues by Cockenzie-based artist and mason Gardner Molloy, who has created a few works of art around East Lothian, including the Battle of Pinkie Memorial commissioned by  Taylor Wimpey at Battlefield Road, beside their Almond Park development, which I must get down to see sometime soon.

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Musselburgh, East Lothian, Scotland

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The longer this hat gets, the more I giggle

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IMGP3376 by Matt Buck Via Flickr: JL (Cagaran Picard Jean-Luc) and Snowdrop (Cagaran Therefore I Am) sit in a pen together at the Edinburgh & East of Scotland Cat Club Show.

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Pie Monday

On the Monday immediately preceding the Dalkeith Hiring-Fair in October (2nd Thursday of the month), Musselburgh celebrated a day known as Pie Monday.

To correctly celebrate Pie Monday everyone *must* have a hot mutton pie for tea, as simple as that.

It is meant to have started when a baker’s horse was lamed in Musselburgh as they were on the way to Dalkeith with a full cart of pies and something had to be done to prevent waste! They sold so well that the following year he was sold out before getting to Dalkeith and so it became a yearly tradition.

Musselburgh let it fall by the wayside and no longer celebrate hot mutton pies in October. They should sort that out!

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Musselburgh Lagoon, Edinburgh

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Best events at Musselburgh Racecourse

There are many prestigious horse racing venues across the UK that have hosted a plethora of illustrious events and ones that continues to attract punters from all over the world as well as the top trainers and stallions in the racing scene today, with one Scottish racecourse being a particularly hot commodity for all racing fans to enjoy on a yearly basis. Continue reading Untitled

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Clouds ⛅️

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Fisherrow Harbour and West Beach, Musselburgh.

Musselburgh, which was once just a small fishing village, is a short journey from Edinburgh city centre. The town boasts a historic racecourse, a tidal harbour, two beaches and what is probably the oldest golf course in the world, certainly older than The "Old" Course at St Andrews.

The Two is split in two by the River Esk, the south of Musselburgh as a fine old Tolbooth and Town Hall, the A-listed building dates from 1590, replacing an earlier building destroyed by the English during a period called The Rough Wooing when they tried to force Scotland into agreeing that Mary Queen of Scots to marry Henry VIII's son and heir Prince Edward. This campaign caused significant destruction to Edinburgh and much of southern Scotland.

The Rough Wooing lasted several years and Musselburgh again saw action in 1547 at Battle of Pinkie. Mary was sent to France a year later for her own safety, she spent the next 13 years there.

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Musselburgh, East Lothian, Scotland

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20 05 2023