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Bellevue Place has been looking out of this world since yesterday evening.
Star Wars droid C-3PO looms from the shrubbery in the politely menacing fashion favoured by locals observing their neighbours' bin-bag etiquette.
His companion – the thermocapsular dehousing assister R2–D2 – may be found glittering busily in the bushes nearby. We have no idea what he's up to.
Freezing parents and carers waiting for their little people to emerge from Broughton Primary School may soon have an alternative spot in which to chill.
A local resident – Yosef Mazon – has applied for permission to convert the Broughton Road police box opposite the top playground at the corner of St Mark’s Path into a takeaway coffee and food outlet (Ref. 15/05365/FUL).
The Sutton Gallery’s Winter Show is becoming one of my favourite traditions at this time of year.
One reason is that it’s one of the few places left in Edinburgh where Christmas isn’t forced on you. Another is that it looks back at some of its highlights over the past 12 months and also looks ahead to what's coming in the next.
There is no set theme to this exhibition, not even a winter one, although there are some close connections. Each artist blends seamlessly into the next, complementing each other as they pass.
Following their victory in the Lothians in June, last week a team of S3 and S4 pupils from Drummond Community High School took part in the Enterprising Maths in Scotland competition finals of the held at the Glasgow Science Centre.
Fifty-eight teams who had qualified from regional events across the country tackled a variety of puzzles and problems, including team questions, practical tasks and calculations, logic games and relay races.
December’s Spurtle is an almost entirely Christmas-free zone. It contains only a dozen words of vague cheeriness, being chiefly consumed with news: news red, amber, and green in beak and claw.
Brace yourself. We start with trams and the Swiss cheese that is likely to be Leith Walk, teapots west of Eighth Avenue, rumblings along Broughton Street, and an embarrassing slap on the wrist for Council Planners.
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.