{"id":2508,"date":"2014-08-16T07:48:32","date_gmt":"2014-08-16T07:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?p=2508"},"modified":"2014-08-16T07:48:32","modified_gmt":"2014-08-16T07:48:32","slug":"bye-bye-bp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?p=2508","title":{"rendered":"Bye Bye BP"},"content":{"rendered":"

And so it was with very mixed emotions that I left my office last night, for the last time, since we move into new premises on Monday.<\/p>\n

We moved into the old ones around about the time that Diana, Princess of Wales died, and I feel as if that was a lifetime ago, so much has happened since then.\u00a0 In amongst the virtual insanity<\/a> of shredding 17 years’ worth of paper, I took some pictures of the views which have sustained me during many a long phone call.<\/p>\n

\"Level<\/a>
Level 5 lobby sign<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Back<\/a>
Back of Playhouse and Omni building, Glasshouse rooftop terrace<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Chimneys<\/a>
Chimneys atop the Playfair terrace in Blenheim Place<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Lobby<\/a>
Lobby window<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"BP<\/a>
BP with Leopold Pace beyond.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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What I will miss:-<\/p>\n

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  • watching cars trying to negotiate the cobbled street in the snow.<\/li>\n
  • John Lewis, The Cat’s Miaou and Tattie Shaw’s<\/li>\n
  • Greenside Church playgroup kids, and the Fringe performances, fond memories of the woman who ran round the corner screaming at 16:15 on the dot every day for three weeks.\u00a0 Not so much the bongo drums.<\/li>\n
  • watching cars drive down Greenside Row only to find out it’s a dead end, and having to reverse back up the hill.<\/li>\n
  • Dofos’ parrots in summer<\/li>\n
  • being asked a record three times on one journey, “Excuse please, where is castle?”*<\/li>\n
  • the Giraffes<\/li>\n
  • \"\"<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Won’t miss:-<\/p>\n

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    • walking along Leith Street past that bus queue that sprachles all over the pavement<\/li>\n
    • walking past the Omni in winter, on Edinburgh’s most dangerous pavement<\/li>\n
    • being asked a record three times on one journey, “Excuse please, where is castle?”<\/li>\n
    • being ignored in Taste of Italy<\/li>\n
    • trying to travel across town in a hurry (guess that isn’t going to change any time soon).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      *Edinburgh needs tourists, hard fact.\u00a0 It costs nothing to be polite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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