David Young takes a short, wistful look at the changing Stockbridge streetscape.

Gallery? Gone. (Doubtfire Gallery, N.W. Circus Place.)

Three metal benches have been installed in Bellevue. Two are replacements for the old wooden ones on Bellevue Terrace and Bellevue Place. The third is a new addition on Mansfield Place outside the southern end of Drummond Community High School’s playground.

Rough grazing will return to the capital’s upland slopes if plans by an Edinburgh goat breeder get the go-ahead. 

Elizabeth Massingberd (85) tends a flock of 12 Baljuvan Mountain Goats at her townhouse on Regent Terrace. She keeps another flock of 250 on family-owned moors above Balerno. 

Her proposal is to release the two ‘clans’ across parts of the city centre.

Spring has sprung.

No. 43 in an occasional photo-series celebrating Spurtleshire street-name signs.

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As you read this, advance copies of the April Spurtle are already spreading across Broughton like dispersible aspirin in the glass of a Tesla PR executive.

Issue 349 begins with the local effects of a wider problem and the general uselessness of iron railings. There’s also limited praise, an inclination to access and the musical squalor of Broughton Street wizards.

Page 2 looks at the weather, unbalanced communities, wasted effort, pongs, and rotten sarking followed by time and relative dimensions in Croall Place, not necessarily in that order.