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Don't you just hate those irritating little jobs?
You know the ones. When the thing to be fixed is at an awkward angle. And you don't have exactly the right tool to hand so you end up improvising with something you found on the floor in the garage.
And then, just as you think you're starting to make progress, bits of your anatomy keep popping out and you don't have the wherewithal to pop them back in again.
An eagle-eyed Forth Street resident last week spotted busy people with theodolites in the car park on the north side of Broughton Street Lane.
He approached the surveyors, asked questions, and was told that building would most likely begin here in the new year.
Dean Valley Regeneration Ltd (DVR) held its second public meeting on Saturday morning to share outline proposals for the ‘linear public park’ between Dean Bridge and Stockbridge.
Around 60 people attended.
In the event, there was little information to be gleaned that was not already available in our article of 22 October and the comprehensive Dean Valley Conservation Statement appended to it.
Last month, in Issue 245, John Ross Maclean's first article about the ‘Big Foot’ cluster of sculptures at the top of Broughton Street prompted a reader's letter.
The communication provided interesting supplementary detail about the pieces, and was from a very eminent authority on Paolozzi’s work who prefers to remain anonymous.
We reproduce a lightly redacted version of the main points here.
After much toil and trouble, the new Spurtle will begin to manifest across the barony this weekend.
Its dark recesses are lined with familiar stories of looming developments, dread parking changes, and savage cuts.
Chill to the rustling pitter-pat of overflowing bins. Gasp at horrible doings in the shrubbery. Shriek in the face of the disembodied bonce below Rodney Street.
Are you brave enough to delve deep into the cracks between paving slabs? Would you examine our tales of community council meetings which other papers dare not even visit?
It may not look like it, but work is already underway on the new St James Quarter.
Behind-the-scenes activity was explained at a meeting in Elder House last night, hosted by developer TH Real Estate. The event was intended to shed light on the logistics of preparation, demolition and construction which will feature large in all locals' lives over the next four years.
Below we summarise some of the key points as they were presented. Questions will doubtless arise later as we take time to consider the practical implications.
5 YEARS AGO
According to Spurtle 187, City of Edinburgh Council wanted a 'hi-tech dialogue about cuts'.
In its infinite wisdom, Edinburgh's Committee of Public Safety has, this week, decreed that the future will be bright, very bright indeed, but it will no longer be orange. Instead, it will be LEDen. [See Breaking news, 28.10.15.]
On 28 April 2011, the tragic death occurred of 32-year-old cyclist Craig Newton at Broughton Point.
Newton was turning left into East Claremont Street from Broughton Road. The driver of a a bin lorry negotiating the same corner from the same direction failed to spot him on his inside line. Newton was knocked from his bike and fatally crushed beneath the wheels of the truck.
With the nights drawing in almost before one has properly finished polishing one’s dentures in the morning, and with the Council yesterday agreeing to upgrade 54,000 street lights to energy-efficient LEDs, now is perhaps a good time to look at some of Broughton’s past attempts to rage against the dying of the light.