Sorry last time I looked the British currency was Stirling and The Bank of Scotland issues its Scottish notes in... Stirling. Therefore, I think you will find that it is legal tender.

On the note of Edinburgh. I loved it and I think it is a simple case of what you went there for. I only went to Murrayfield on Sunday, taking in the Leeds Catalans game and then us. The rest of the weekend I spent touring the wonderful city... including ghost tour. I can see peoples point about the drinking culture though, everywhere was quite far from the ground. I'll be definately going back next year though!

Quote Cobblers Wire="Cobblers Wire"Sorry last time I looked the British currency was Stirling and The Bank of Scotland issues its Scottish notes in... Stirling. Therefore, I think you will find that it is legal tender. '" Sorry last time I looked (in researching my considered opinion before posting), I understood Scottish bank notes were not legal tender in England. But you may be right and this link maybe inaccurate. www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknote ... aqs.htm#15 PS - Don't worry it's an easy trap to fall into mistaking legal tender for currency.

Quote Cobblers Wire="Cobblers Wire"Sorry last time I looked the British currency was Stirling and The Bank of Scotland issues its Scottish notes in... Stirling. Therefore, I think you will find that it is legal tender. '" Sorry last time I looked (in researching my considered opinion before posting), I understood Scottish bank notes were not legal tender in England. But you may be right and this link maybe inaccurate. www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknote ... aqs.htm#15 PS - Don't worry it's an easy trap to fall into mistaking legal tender for currency.

Aye our little one is only 4 months so it was a bit of a pain but we managed. Bought her some ear defenders so the noise didnt upset her and had a great time.

Quote Wires71="Wires71":oops: Sorry last time I looked (in researching my considered opinion before posting), I understood Scottish bank notes were not legal tender in England. But you may be right and this link maybe inaccurate. www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknote ... aqs.htm#15 PS - Don't worry it's an easy trap to fall into mistaking legal tender for currency.'" The currency is STERLING not Stirling.

Quote Wires71="Wires71":oops: Sorry last time I looked (in researching my considered opinion before posting), I understood Scottish bank notes were not legal tender in England. But you may be right and this link maybe inaccurate. www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknote ... aqs.htm#15 PS - Don't worry it's an easy trap to fall into mistaking legal tender for currency.'" The currency is STERLING not Stirling.

He actually said that the scottish notes are issued in Stirling - I assumed it was the site of the manufacturing plant for scottish bank notes similar to the Royal Mint in Pontyclun.

Some shops won't accept Scottish notes due to the fact that the hologram dectection things don't work on them

Hey now just wait a minute SEB, I wasn't criticising TANCW's blog contribution more his innate superiority complex in broadsiding the whole board membership as being filistines (sic) just because they may not dig Edinburgh Castle or Arthurs Seat as much as him - whilst in the process mispelling philistine. I found that amusing.

Peace out.

Do you really think I didn't know how to spell philistine (or more properly, Philistine)? And I couldn't give a monkey's if people prefer to sit in a pub all day and moan about the venue when they have a great city to visit. Makes the queues shorter.

If the mis-spelling was purposeful then, of course, I apologise for missing the joke TANCW.

Out of interest, which tourist attractions did you visit? It may whet the appetite of others to visit Edinburgh next year.

In closing, philistine is typically only capitalised at the beginning if you are using in the proper noun context referring to an inhabitant of ancient Philistia rather than using it as a common noun to describe a person lacking in cultural awareness or appreciation etc.

Holyroodhouse and Camera Obscura (this time).

I'm going to do the Rebus tour next year.

Interesting debate to be had on use of whether to use the upper case when a common noun is derived from a proper noun. See recent article in The Guardian - [url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/mar/23/open-door-guardian-styleFreudian or freudian?[/url

Camera Obscura looks good, I may go there next time and also as a Rankin fan the Rebus tour sounds interesting too.

Interesting point on the capitalisation. I would argue along the lines of David Marsh and assert that the noun philistine has long since lost it's association with the region of Israel and, as such, losing the capital is correct. Another good example of this is 'vandal'. We would very rarely capitalise this word unless referring to the Germanic tribe in the 5th century.