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Back in October 2013 we reported a City of Edinburgh Council survey investigating the Natural Neighbourhoods of the capital. Its results were reported to the Communities and Neighbourhoods Committee one year later (see pdf below).
A completely unexpected pleasure is to be had on Eyre Place at the moment – a photography exhibition in the congenial surroundings of the Roamin’ Nose café and bistro.
The show comprises work by four local artists with a variety of interests in land-, sea- and cityscapes.
Norwegian-born Paul Henni has a varied background in scultpure, design, seismology and information management. Although he sometimes works in colour, he looks principally for ‘subjects, form and tones’ suitable for monochrome images.
No sooner has Hibu’s tissue of disappointments New Town Matters quietly dissolved than another free glossy flops onto the mat.
A claimed ‘35,000 readers’ in ‘Scotland’s most expensive postcode’ are the lucky recipients.
But EH3 residents have been left perplexed by the first issue of New Town Gazette (no relation of the late-lamented Gorgie-Dalry Gazette). Apart from anything else, it features a front-page photograph of Edinburgh’s historic Old Town.
For no very good reason, Spurtle is running a spot-the-location quiz.
Each Wednesday between now and the end of the year, we'll publish five square photographs featuring Broughton viewed from misleading angles or from straightforward angles but unhelpfully cropped afterwards. We use the term 'Broughton' in the elastic sense of flexible Spurtleshire.
The Category A-listed George Hotel at 15–25 George Street has applied for permission to change its exterior at No. 21 (Ref. 14/04755/FUL).
On the south-facing elevation, it proposes replacing the 1980s ground-level mock facade with a new shop front for a coffee and wine bar. The shop front would not exactly restore its 19th-century original predecessor, but looks smart and sympathetic enough to us.
The Yard seeks sponsored runners to take part in a Christmas Charity Festival in the Royal Botanic Garden and Inverleith Park next weekend.
The two-day event combines pain and schmaltz for all the family, with reindeer, Christmas Walks and Golden Tinsel Mile Walks as well as an Edinburgh Christmas Buggy Run, an Edinburgh Santa Toddle/Parade from Stockbridge to Inverleith Park, a carol service, mince pies, mulled wine and gift stalls. Father Christmas will also be welcoming guests in his grotto.
Spurtle is delighted to kick off December with three notable absentees.
Freya Levy's wise men seem to have taken the hump and slipped from view in these 'Colourful Camel' designs currently on show at Glass and Thompson on Dundas Street.
Local resident Christina Thomson was busily putting the finishing touches to her latest creation at the corner of Bellevue and Bellevue Place this afternoon.
We are not giving too much away when we say that next month's display has a Christmas theme.
Mrs Thomson brushed aside compliments as she remarked, 'There's still a lot to do yet'.
She fixed us with a beady eye: 'I keep being interrupted by people laughing at me'.
A close-up of the finished design – including a mystery central figure – will appear in the Spurtle soon.
Who doesn’t love Brides Magazine?
This correspondent was reading it avidly at breakfast this morning until it suddenly became apparent that the cost of the average BM reader’s wedding in the UK is £24,716.
The figures break down as follows:
Albert Einstein was once asked by an admirer whether he had stood on the shoulders of Sir Isaac Newton in reaching such dizzying scientific heights.
‘No,’ replied Einstein. ‘I stand on the shoulders of Maxwell.’
Standing on the shoulders of Maxwell this evening, or at least looming over them, was the brilliantly lit but seemingly little used helter-skelter in St Andrew Square.