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BLEARY-EYED SPURTLE WANDERS IN
Fireworks, massed oompah bands and a baton-twirling Councillor Frank Ross marked the opening of Lidl’s latest supermarket, on Logie Green Road this morning.
Actually, some of those may have been hallucinations: 8am is outwith Spurtle’s normal competent-operating window. Reliable witnesses tell us that around 30 people and a dog queued in the rain before the doors swung open and a sodden piper struck up Dave Lewis’s Lament.
The development of eight houses on land between Broughton Road and the Claremonts has been given the green light.
A Scottish Government Reporter today allowed the appeal by Provincial Property Holdings Ltd against City of Edinburgh Council’s earlier unanimous refusal of planning consent for the scheme on land also known as Sandy Hill and Heriot Hill (see pdf at foot of page, and Breaking news, 10.2.16).
(AND ALSO LIKED TO VISIT) …
On 4 October, late afternoon, a fine smoky grey cat sallied through the open door of Concrete Wardrobe on Broughton Street.
After sniffing around, it settled on a rug by a mirror, doubtless admiring itself. Then it moved to the luscious comforts in the shop window where it was admired in turn by passers-by.
I remember sitting contentedly in a Charlotte Square deckchair a couple of months back.
Pausing at a particularly poignant point in my book, I looked up and there, through the enveloping smug, I could just about make out a handful of fellow Festival-goers. To my absolute horror, they all seemed to be quietly enjoying the midweek afternoon and not at all thinking about class struggle.
How despicably self-satisfied, I thought.
Rayprographics seeks to vary its planning consent with a new plan for the 626 sq.m. site at 5 Warriston Road (Ref. 16/04263/FUL).
The plans are not particularly easy to read, but it looks to us as if the substantially revised scheme, by McCreadie Design Ltd, comprises 5 storeys providing six flats (one 1-bed, three 2-bed, two 3-bed). The scheme approved earlier comprised 10 flats.
Drummond students have achieved a second consecutive victory in the Enterprising Maths in the Lothians competition.
Benjamin Sterratt (S4, pictured left) Daniel Farrow (S3), Mhairi Dickie (S4) and Sara Leszczynska (S3, pictured right) tackled a variety of mathematical puzzles and problems to beat off competition from 26 teams from across Edinburgh, East Lothian and Midlothian.
For many years, this former Gentlemen’s Hairdresser on Rodney Street has been falling to pieces in front of our eyes.
The paintwork is peeling from the front. Nobody knows what’s going on inside. The shop just sits there like a small-business memento mori, winking at people by the bus stop and muttering to itself.
Now, at last, there are signs of an encouraging development.
Reader Fiona Illand contacted us yesterday with news that a self-seeded lettuce is flourishing in the doorway of No. 38.
Who doesn’t like harmonica music?
Especially when it’s played by a spherical rat, walking on two legs, to a collection of antlike creatures gathered about his feet.
Possibly, the Nit Not doesn’t, to judge by the expression of vexed concentration on the face of the strange character below.
The Drummond Tennis Club’s 2016 Championships last month will largely be remembered for the taming of the Master!
Hughie Masters – back after a short break – took on Calum Friar in the Singles Final. With the crowd expecting a Masters champion, Friar had other ideas. Calum produced his finest display on the clay to record a 6–3 6–2 win and his third title in four years.
The October Spurtle is written, printed, folded, counted, sorted into bundles and now ready for distribution across a news-ravenous Broughton and beyond.
The latest issue brings you information nourishment flavoured with three planning applications which haven’t even been submitted yet, and five that have.
We have tasty morsels on horns and mooning, a TV exclusive, and word on not particularly peaceful things to do with an olive branch that land you in court.