No Right Turn....

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  Tel

• Jul 21, 2022

Was in the Cask and Barrel once or twice and told that Ian Rankin drank there but I never saw him.

 

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  SJC1952

• Jul 21, 2022

Tel said:

Was in the Cask and Barrel once or twice and told that Ian Rankin drank there but I never saw him.

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I was in the Cask and Barrel last year. I always knew it as the Claremont Bar. I'm often in Broughton Street but I've never seen Rankin there.

 

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  Tel

• Jul 21, 2022

Probably a myth then. I'd have preferred to know where Iain Banks drank. Sadly too late...

 

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  SJC1952

• Jul 22, 2022

I went to a talk Ian Banks gave, in a local Dunfermline bookshop, maybe 10 of us there, promoting a book, maybe two years before he died. I felt privileged to be in the presence of greatness. What a loss for Scotland. He lived in North Queensferry.

 

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  Tel

• Jul 23, 2022

The Crow Road. Brilliant. My son refused to read The Quarry, because that would mean it was over...