Our thanks go to Tibor Farkas who, responding to Ellen Netherby and the cormorant she spotted in April, has sent us another strange sighting of his own.
‘I was walking past St Andrew’s House when this ghostly chicken leapt off the pavement at me.
‘Or it may be a pigeon.’
We thank reader Anne Sutherland for sharing the poem below, recently encountered online.
The Concrete Ballerina
On the cold platform, I watch them sway,
The cranes across the tracks today,
Hauling heavy concrete loads,
Above the busy, urban roads.
They twist, they pirouette, they dip,
A masterful, mechanic grip,
Bringing the city higher still,
Following the developer’s will.
It is an anonymous response to the giants currently at work on the New Town Quarter.
Interesting.
Intentional art or legless on shore leave?
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If you like your video content slow and steady with a mysterious dark stranger wandering through it for no good reason, you'll enjoy this short clip on YouTube.
It shows the Cyprus-registered Seaway Alpha Lift leaving Leith this morning bound for Inch Cape, where she was expected to arrive at about 3pm.
Unbelievably perfect.
The delights and dangers of photo-editing with AI.
Before …
The view from Calton Hill earlier this evening.
CFC Renaissance (Compagnie Française de Croisières) will depart Leith at 8.00pm, bound for Aberdeen then Orkney then Shetland.
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The importance of getting close … but not too close.
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The view from Inverleith House this afternoon.
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Puts a smile on everybody's face.
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