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This is the ninth of 12 daily spot-the-location puzzles. There will be a cash prize at the end for the person with the greatest number of correct answers.
All the places are in or adjacent to Broughton.
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 17: SKY WHISKER
Perhaps you'll wonder whether I’ve over-imbibed during the festive season when I suggest you look out for a bird this month that may not even be here.
You may feel even more suspicious when I describe it … pinky/orange plumage, a striking plume, zorro style black mask and yellow flashes on its wings and tail that would not be out of place on a traffic policeman’s BMW.
Strangely, despite all these stunning plumage features, the Waxwing is named after the tiny scarlet wing feather extensions that are said to resemble sealing wax from bygone times.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
We start 2016 with this, the eighth of 12 daily spot-the-location puzzles. There will be a cash prize at the end for the person with the greatest number of correct answers.
All the places are in or adjacent to Broughton.
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 15: DORMANT
Sometimes, when we or our readers get up a head of steam and complain about something, nothing gets done.
Other times, something gets done but only very very slowly.
And then, once in a blue moon, something gets sorted almost before the telephone has cooled down.
That’s what’s happened this time, following Spurtle team member Tim Smith’s report to the Council about a kerbside multiple trip-hazard on Hopetoun Street (see below).
This is the seventh of 12 daily spot-the-location puzzles, with a cash prize at the end for the person with the greatest number of correct answers.
All the places are in or adjacent to Broughton.
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 13: BUBBLE AND SQUAWK
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.
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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