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Look at the spray-painted image adjacent and reproduced at greater magnification below.
It appears about halfway along the Rodney Street Tunnel, on the right as you approach King George V Park.
What do you see?
Some locals find a rather wild, unsentimentalised head and shoulder of a unicorn – nostril-snorting, teeth-baring and tongue-lolling – facing left to right.
Last Thursday we repeated on Facebook and Twitter the question raised in September’s printed version of the Spurtle: Has Edinburgh reached saturation point?
Overwhelmingly, readers said: Yes.
Below, we’ve cut and pasted their replies to either us or to the Cockburn Association, which repeated our enquiry. If you’d like to add your tuppence-worth …
If you’re in any doubt about whether we are now enjoying the end of summer or the beginning of autumn, you have two ways to settle the question.
Either you can go to the BBC website here and choose between three contrasting definitions: meteorological, astronomical and phenological.
Or you can go for a wander up Broughton Street and look at the A-board outside the Basement Café.
The north-facing side is now advertising a morbid three-day celebration of Halloween.
Local resident Pam Neilson (left) was joined by Deidre Brock MP in the run-up to this evening’s special illumination of St Andrew Square.
Golden ‘Luminations of Love’ around the Melville Monument will draw attention to the ‘Glow Gold’ campaign to help families dealing with childhood cancer.
Pam Neilson’s three-year-old son Kai died recently after a two-year struggle against infant acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, an aggressive form of blood cancer.
There's been a major twist in the battle for the old Royal High School’s future shape and use.
Duddingston House Properties (DHP) has requested a delay to its appeal while it submits a new proposal (see pdf at foot of page).
Recent inspections of the North Bridge have revealed that sections of its decorative panels are in poor condition and need attention.
City of Edinburgh Council has drafted in specialist contractors for the job, and work began last night to wrap the structure’s southern span. Completion of the wrapping here is expected to take another 3 weeks.
Netting is to be installed under the bridge to allow engineers to safely access other areas. Market Street is likely to be closed briefly during this period, and the taxi rank has been moved accordingly.
As you read this, literally numbers of highly trained volunteers are preparing to distribute copies of the September Spurtle the length and breadth of Broughton and beyond.
You, too, will soon have in your hands this gossamer-light publication, slim and convenient but thick-as-a-brick with heavyweight north-central Edinburgh news.
ABERCROMBY PLACE OFFICE TO RETURN TO RESIDENTIAL USE
Planning permission and listed building consent has been granted for a new development at 16 Abercromby Place (Ref. 16/02440/LBC; 16/02439/FUL).
The proposal is to retain the listed façade, but to remove the more modern office structure behind and redevelop it as11 apartments.
At its August meeting, Leith Central Community Council voted to back locals in a bid to bolster the fairly newly formed Pilrig Conservation Area (Breaking news, 9.8.13).
‘PAPERWORK 3’ AT THE EDINBURGH SKI CLUB
The small scale and intimate surroundings of this airy Howe Street basement perfectly suit the return of three Working Lines Collective artists to the Fringe.
All have exhibited here in previous summer exhibitions, and one re-encounters their work with a sense of familiarity, affection and interest in how their style has developed over the intervening months. Described here are a few personal favourites from a total of 43 new works.