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While having coffee with a companion in a Drummond Place back garden earlier this week, I was surprised by a pale orange and black speckled butterfly which landed on our table.
Then suddenly, the air was alive with swirls of this butterfly, together with Cabbage Whites. Could this be one of the c.10 million Painted Ladies migrating to the UK, highlighted recently by naturalist Chris Packham in national media?
This eye-catching combination of curves, chrome, and dents has been turning heads across Bellevue and beyond over recent days.
At first glance, it appears to be part of a hearts-and-minds campaign by some tin-pot dictator.
At second glance, it becomes clear that the antique vehicle is promoting Dead Equal, a new opera performing at Venue 210 – the Drill Hall on East Claremont Street.
As you read this, copies of the August Spurtle are already bouncing out of the presses like waves over a flood prevention scheme.
Page 1 babbles playfully about balloons, bins, and bars … and a big bare boy bashing the bejesus out of something with a mallet.
Friday 26 July, 2019 was a day of great sadness for the Edinburgh-South Asian Community, writes Nahid Aslam. Mrs Ghazala Peena Farooq, a stalwart of the community, passed away.
Ghazala was born on 14 August 1940 in Muree, at that time in India but in now in Pakistan. She arrived in Edinburgh with her family, from Lahore, in 1968. In Lahore, she had been the headteacher of a girls’ high school. She firmly believed in the importance of girls’ education and empowerment, and thus set about to use her talents to work towards this.
Neighbours and other locals continue to monitor events at 7–8 Baxter’s Place very carefully.
EDINBURGH’S FLAWED TRAMWAY … AND HOW TO FIX IT
As locals prepare to sample a refurbished (and hopefully improved) Clark’s Bar, one experienced reader fondly remembers how the Dundas Street institution used to be.
Simon Jennings, now south of the Border, says the polished woodwork and shining brass remind him of how all pubs were when he was a lad, some 70 years ago.
We thank him for these atmospheric, charming, and well-observed impressions, and thank also his friend Carolynn Cooke who first alerted us to their existence.
John Ross Maclean reviews a ‘veritable symphony of pleasures’
Parts of Edinburgh struggled to cope with a sudden downpour on 24 June.
Over half the month’s anticipated rain fell in three hours on the west of the city, and some 140 floods were reported during what Transport & Environment Convener Cllr Lesley Macinnes later described as an ‘exceptional period of extreme weather’.
Traffic disruption ensued. There was some localised but serious damage to property.
Edinburgh-based Star Pubs & Bars Ltd seeks planning consent for new signage at 46–48A Broughton Street (Ref. 19/03014/ADV).
The former Phoenix Bar, it seems, is set to rise again as The Broughton, selling cask and craft ales, and malt whisky.