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For any parent, taking their child to the play park and seeing an empty set of swings is a joyous moment.  However, there is an unwritten etiquette that should always be observed. 

Empty swings make adults behave in a peculiar way. If another parent is already in the park, regardless of what their child or children are doing, they scoop them up and put them in the empty swings before the new visitors can have a shot. It doesn’t matter if the children have just been on the swings or if they don’t like them, there is no way you let anyone new on them first.

Gayfield Square is perhaps not where you’d expect to encounter a thriving alternative art scene, writes Rhys Fullerton, but that’s where you’ll find Whitespace.

It's a gallery very different from others you've probably come across before in Edinburgh and Broughton. 

Batleys  – the banging and crashing cash-and-carry – has lost its latest appeal against restricted opening hours on Sundays (Ref. PPA-230-2135).

Clear skies above and penetrating winds below. It’s been properly cold in Broughton today and sleet’s predicted for later in the week.

No wonder fingers have been turning blue in the barony.

These ones belong to staff and children at The Edinburgh Nursery on East London Street.

New information has appeared about the existence of a ‘Dark’ Buildings At Risk Register, and the placing on it of the former Royal High School (RHS) premises at 5–7 Regent Road.

City of Edinburgh Council’s position comes across as nonsensical and self-contradictory. Government agency decision making seems to take place at the discretion of individuals and to be hidden from view.

Recap on a disappearance

REVIEWED BY RHYS FULLERTON 

The Art of Hassan Meshkinfam is an exhibition co-produced by The Edinburgh Iranian Festival and The Sutton Gallery on Dundas Street. 

Meshkinfam, an established Iranian artist, was born in Shiraz and educated both in Iran and Paris. His work is held in public and private collections all over the world.  

St Valentine’s Day: What’s not to love about it?

Let me count the ways. 

1. Why would I want to buy a single rose now at the same price as a whole bunch at any other time of the year? What’s more, a beautiful (possibly genetically modified) rose which usually withers and dies by lunchtime. During times of austerity, I’ve often just purchased the stem.

Are you the kind of silver surfer who generally ends up swallowing gallons of seawater and needing to be rescued from the IT ocean by someone younger and niftier on the keyboard?

If so, you’ll be glad to know that help is at hand. A George Street-based charity is specifically aimed at teaching the over-50s how to e-swim.

Sometime over the weekend, a positively charged graffiti artist struck Broughton. 

Starting out in Bellevue, he or she bounced downhill spreading good cheer via Rodney Street to the wall outside the BP garage in Canonmills. 

An application to convert the controversial ‘garage’ on East Scotland Street Lane to a ‘studio office’ (Ref. 15/000147/FUL; see Issue 237) seems to have stumbled at the umpteenth fence. 

City of Edinburgh Planning officials laconically reported as follows: