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This is the sixth of 12 daily spot-the-location puzzles, with a cash prize at the end for the person with the greatest number of correct answers.
Keep your solutions quiet for now. You may wish to trade them later, depending on how everyone else is doing.
All will become clear in due course.
PHOTO 11: 'OW 'ARD CAN IT BE?
In November 1823, there appeared in the pages of the Scots Magazine a poem entitled ‘Midnight and Moonlight on the Calton Hill’.
Penned by one W.M., its 20 stanzas are a little too florid for most modern tastes, so we’ll skip to the interesting bits for the light they cast on past practices on and around this part of Edinburgh’s challenging topography.
It begins:
Twas night—the city still’d apace
As old St Giles the curfew toll’d,
This is the fifth of 12 daily spot-the-location puzzles, with a cash prize at the end for the person with the greatest number of correct answers.
Keep your solutions quiet for now. You may wish to trade them later, depending on how everyone else is doing.
All will become clear in due course.
PHOTO 9: KEEPING SECURE
'MAGNUS MacNEMESIS' HAS HAD ENOUGH
For the second year running, Edinburgh citizens find themselves disgusted.
As in 2014/15, we are appalled at St Andrew Square Garden, where the difference between what was promised some ten years ago and what's being delivered today is stark.
This is the fourth of 12 daily spot-the-location puzzles, with a cash prize at the end for the person with the most correct answers.
Keep your solutions quiet for now. You may wish to trade them later, depending on how everyone else is doing.
All will become clear in due course.
PHOTO 7: HARD TIMES
Yesterday, we printed reader Keith Cowan’s letter in which he asked who in the Council had made the decision to close Calton Hill on Hogmanay (Letters, 27.12.15).
Today, we reprint a reply to a similar query Cowan addressed to CEC’s Chief Executive, Andrew Kerr, just before Christmas.
This is the third of 12 daily spot-the-location puzzles, with a cash prize at the end for the person with the most correct answers.
Keep your solutions quiet for now. You may wish to trade them later, depending on how everyone else is doing.
All will become clear in due course.
PHOTO 5: DECLINE AND FALL
PHOTO 6: NOT POSH
This is the second of 12 daily spot-the-location puzzles, with a cash prize at the end for the person with the most correct answers.
Keep your answers to yourself for now. You may wish to trade solutions later, depending on how everyone else is doing.
All will become clear later.
PHOTO 3: OVERHEAD
Here are the first two location-puzzles in our 12 Days of Christmas quiz.
(See yesterday's post for the general idea.)
Keep the answer to yourself for now. What seems obvious to you may not be obvious to someone else, and you may be able to trade solutions with other readers later in the competititon.
PHOTO 1: STEP IT GAILY …
Continuing for the full 12 days of Christmas, Spurtle will tomorrow start its annual irritating spot-the-location photo competition with an exciting cash prize at the end.
Two locations will appear each day. They are all in or immediately adjacent to Spurtleshire and will be, for the most part, familiar to most readers.
However, they have been deliberately viewed or cropped in such a way as to render them annoyingly obscure.