HC wrote:

anders wrote:

Saw an ice cream van today.

That's only a guid 'hing if you see it as a sign of the weather getting better.
If you see it as an invitation to gather together.....
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Sturgeon has passed a law banning ice cream vans during Covid19. But Johnson's said it's un-CONEstitutional.

You will do anything to ( MR ) Whipp y up a controversial argument.


Ok a bit contrived  but it works depending on how you read it.

I read Luca is open again. When I can get unlocked-down and get back the Holy Corner shop might be one of my first stops. The ice cream's good rather than great but it's just up the road, don't need to risk too many Covid-Zombies staggering too close to you as you walk along and I'm home again with some of it left.
That or the butchers on Bruntsfield Place. I almost never eat meat, except when I get his steak or chicken pies. Went in once for one and he said 'Hing oan, ahm just getting one out the oven now, they're just made'. Didn't know some butchers still made theirs in their own back shop. Makes his own sausages in there as well. With him, the fish shop, a Bros Bagels and Globetrotter chip shop (and Nonna's Kitchen up the road) it's a great area to live in for good stuff.
However there's the Merlin and Canny Man's.

Luca's is one of the ice creams I can take or leave.  As a Musselburgh lass, that might seem unusual, but to the connoisseurs, Di Rollo's is miles better. 

Canny Man's can ram it and The Merlin is soulless.

anders wrote:

Tho the Canny Man's is what it is, every couple of years or so I go in, usually to show it to some visitor who might like the clutter. The clientele can be not-the-most-hospitable,but  I've ended up sat next to some really nice welcoming people as well. The signs outside about 'no this, no that' are just for show now - the guy who put them up is gone.
Even so, it's the Rule or Bennets usually for me. Back in the day when pubs were open.

 
The Canny Man's is to pubs what record shops are to shops.

Like both the other pubs you mentioned.

Having had no ice cream for ages, I got some today - raspberry ripple.

Still only going to the local shop  - phone up your order, pay over the phone, go, open your boot and they chuck it in - so limited as to what you get.

Looking forward to having some later tonight. 

My grandfather had a corner seat at the end of the bar in the rule, when it was called the yeaman bar. No one ever sat in it bar him! He lived along the road in Tay street, top flat above the hall.