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Observation
15-03-2016, 16.45-17.45
Weather: rainy, cold, windy
I couldn’t make any pictures since my phone was out of battery.
Not many people
mainly tourists
not many people want to take selfies and pictures on the national monument because of the weather.
People walk around real quick, take some pictures and leave.
Some dog walkers. Mostly with throw sticks.
very cloudy, people can’t really have a good look over the city.
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27/03/2016 (easter), 10.30-11.30
weather: cloudy, drizzle
It’s quite busy despite the weather.
Only tourists, many different languages (German, Dutch, Asiatic language)
People take pictures, enjoy the view for a bit and move on. Nobody sits down.
a group of girls who are cold and take many pictures and laugh together.
Someone is taking pictures of the people at the National Monument.
I did the interviews today, I’ve heard some interesting things, people wanted tours or something else to get more information about Calton Hill and its monuments. Someone told me she thought it would be interesting to have some street art on good days.
19/03/2016, 12.30-13.30
weather: Sunny, around 18 °C
My normal bench was taken because it was so busy with people sitting and enjoying the sun.
Very many people just sat down to enjoy the sun.
The National monument is by far the most popular again, though there were also many people at the other monuments. But it looks like at the national monument people don’t mind that there are other people on the pictures. At the other monuments though, people want to be on the picture without anyone else on it.
At the cannon people quickly take a picture and then go on to something else. At the National monument people also kind of play with it. And at the Dugald Stewart Monument people take a picture, and then they have a look around to enjoy the view of the city.
Nearly nobody pays attention to the observatory.
I’m thinking about either making something for the national monument, you could do something fun with it, for example with the pillars. But since the national monument is pretty popular already, maybe I should do something with one of the other monuments.
11-03-2016, 10.00-11.00
Weather: windy, cold, rainy
Very quiet, not many people
people enjoying the views, but only have a quick look.
Leave as soon as they can
Tourists mostly
people take many pictures, mostly with their phones.
no-one is paying attention to the binocular, So maybe it should be at a different place?
young adults playing with the cannon
not many selfiesticks today
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How the bottom of the canal would look during a summers day.Â
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1.12 Observation 10
Friday 1st April, 11.15pm-12.15am
I decided to go down to the beach, the latest I would dare on a Friday night to see what is going on. Â I could smell smoke which made me hesitant when turning the corner to get onto the promenade and on further inspection turned out to be a group of mid-teenagers lighting a fire further down the beach.
I took my seat to begin the evening’s observation.  When I first sat down no one passed by for 15/20 minutes.  In this time I got up to walk about and keep warm in the cold night wind and whilst doing this I counted to see how many lights were broken along the length of the prom that was visible and I counted what I thought to be 4 broken lampposts, including the lamppost that was broken next to me.  It was either that or there weren’t lampposts in the places I thought there to be but was too far away to tell.  This goes with what people were saying in my interviews about the beach needing better looked after.
The first person that passed me looked to be the same age as the kids lighting fires along the beach seemed to be.  He didn’t stop for any reason as I'm guessing he was just heading home.  Â
After the boy walked by no one walked by for another 20/25 minutes until a middle-aged couple looked to be returning home from a pub or something in portobello via the beach.  I only guess this because of what they were wearing and where they came from but maybe I’m wrong.  They weren’t walking particularly fast and were looking across up at the sky and over towards Fife.  After they went by no one went by until the end of the shift but I could hear the shouting down at the fire on the beach and the occasional drunk up on the high street.
1.11 Interview 3
Friday 29th March
What brings you to the beach this morning?
Sprints, I play American Football for the East Kilbride Pirates and I come here to train sometimes.
Why do you like training here?
Harder on the muscles.
Less strain on knee and ankle joints.
Helping to prevent injury as much as possible.
How often do you come here?
Once a week.
What do you like about the beach/promenade?
The sand for training.
Nothing really appeals to me to me, I use it purely for training.
What improvements would you like to see in order to make the beach seem appealing to you?
Hmm, maybe a nice wee water fountain but it still wouldn’t make me come here more than just for training.
1.10 Observation 9
Friday 29th March
I decided to go down as early as I could muster up one morning to see what was going on at this time of the day. Â I arrived at 8.15am on a foggy morning. It was dry but according to the weather app on my phone it was meant to rain later on which I am guessing is why there was a hue over the water.
There was a man running sprints between two points on the sand and he came up from the beach after about 10 minutes.  I approached him and asked him if he would be okay with me interviewing him.  He didn’t come across as the nicest guy in the world but he agreed which was good as I wanted to interview someone who used the beach for exercise which could have been difficult as people who exercise don’t tend to stop.
The was an abundance of dog walkers in the last half an hour of the observation and a few dogs started to play fight together.  No one in the whole hour used the sand apart from the man doing sprints and the 9 or 10 dogs I saw going up and down the shore.
There was an elderly couple who looked to be out for a walk making the most of the weather before it was meant to deteriorate later on but the man wasn’t able to move at a very fast pace.
No one apart from the young girl from last observation had used the beach next to where I sat for these observations.  As I have been coming to the beach for a number of years now since living relatively close I expected to see more exciting things than I have.  In the past, I have seen people swimming in the sea or sailing but in all of these observations I haven’t seen any of that.  Hopefully the next (and final) observation will have something exciting in it to talk about!
