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Upon being invited to go out and play in the garden this morning, this semi-detached member of the Spurtle team replied simply ‘Bleugh’.
When asked for clarification, he replied ‘Bleuuuch’. With emphasis.
Now, whether these were descriptions of the meteorological conditions, or insulting observations about the intelligence of a human companion who could for one moment think a cat might wish to go out and frolic in them, was not obvious.
Landmark buildings at 113 Dundas Street and 34 Fettes Row look set to disappear under outline plans for a major new development here on land owned by the Royal Bank of Scotland.
The proposals were aired yesterday in the second of three public exhibitions featuring designs by development consultants GVA and Michael Laird Architects. All the display boards appear at the foot of this article.
LISA OPPENHEIM'S BILLBOARD FOR EDINBURGH
November's Artwork of the Month is a dramatic photograph of a Colorado forest fire, taken by Lisa Oppenheim. It is part of the Ingleby Gallery’s Billboard for Edinburgh series.
Oppenheim combines both analogue and digital photographic techniques to create her film and photographic work, drawing on and questioning the traditions of still and moving image picture-making.
'Does anyone know where these come from?
Does anyone know what they mean?'
So asks Rhys Fullerton, who began noticing roses in bottles pasted to unobtrusive local spots a few days ago.
The one pictured right appears on the postbox in Bellevue Road. The one below by the puffin crossing at the end of East London Street.
Surely Spurtle is not alone in recalling the horror?
That moment when a fragile tome was selected from the shelves of an antiquarian bookseller and promptly hurled itself from the grasp.
The way time slowed down between fingertips and floorboards.
The speechless agonies, the ghastly anticipation of impact and consequences.
How fitting, then, that this work – ‘Lost for Words’ – should appear in McNaughtan’s Bookshop & Gallery on Haddington Place, where it forms part of a small but intriguing exhibition by Laura Gill.
Police Scotland's Deputy Chief Constable Iain Livingstone QPM this morning issued a statement to communities across the country.
We reproduce it in full and unedited below.
Following the terrorist attacks in Paris, France, on Friday 13 November 2015 and the ongoing extensive media coverage, it should be noted that at this time there is no known threat or link to Scotland.
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It is November, and – after an evening spent among young people intoxicated with each other and the capital’s first flurries of snow this winter – Spurtle’s fancy has turned lightly to thoughts of love.
Where is it and how do you get your hands on it?
Such conundra have been bothering locals for centuries, as this letter in a Scottish newspaper of May 1750 makes clear.
Just look and marvel.
This delicately detailed botanical study is by Heather Raeburn, one of three artists whose joint show opens this evening at Bon Papillon on Howe Street.
We'll return to the work of her fellow exhibitors in the next few days, taking one painting at a time so as fully to enjoy them.
Councillors today voted to back the principle of extending the tramline to Newhaven.
A decision on spending any money, however, will be delayed until the next full Council meeting on 10 December to allow time for another look at the business case.
UNDERBELLY CUTS FIRST AND ASKS PERMISSION AFTERWARDS
Underbelly seeks approval to alter and replace the current gate and railings into East Princes Street Gardens, at the junction of Waverley Bridge and Market Street.
It also seeks to remove and replace a tree, and to erect temporary fencing panels (Ref. 15/05077/FUL).