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Are you at a loose end tomorrow?
More specifically … will you be at the loose end, holding a leash and expecting to see a bored, socially starved, sausage-shaped dog staring back at you from the other?
If so, you’re in luck.
Napier Bathrooms & Interiors in Canonmills are hosting an informal dachshund get-together on Sunday, involving more company, conviviality and dog-related conversation than you could possibly shake a chorizo at.
The last good deed I did was in 2007, until two weeks ago.
I woke up and was in a good mood. The mother-in-law was due to leave in a few hours’ time, and today was going to be an excellent one.
She had one last thing to do before she left, and for reasons I can’t quite fathom, I said I would do it for her.
That was my first mistake.
REVIEWED BY RHYS FULLERTON
Beauty and the Right to the Ugly (BRU for short) is a major new work, conceived specifically for Collective’s City Dome on Calton Hill.
It is presented as a three-channel film installation, and set in Het Karregat – a multifunctional community centre in Eindhoven. That Dutch building was designed by architect Frank Van Klingeren, who intended it as a way to enhance communal forms of living.
As predicted on Friday, Duddingston House Properties Ltd and Urbanist Hotels Ltd have now submitted a proposal of application notice (PAN) to the Council for the former Royal High School at 5–7 Regent Road (Breaking news, 16.1.15).
In their own words, they propose a ‘world-class hotel of international standing’:
An interesting item for sale at Lyon & Turnbull later this month stands at the junction of three stories published by Spurtle in recent years.
Described as an ‘extremely rare broadside’ printed on two sheets, Lot 19 is a poster dating from the late 1860s and was published in Birmingham by anti-slavery campaigners of the day.
It reads: 'The Committee of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society have received the following communication from Jamaica.
City of Edinburgh Council looks set to develop a more coherent strategy for the use of public space.
A report will go before the Corporate Policy and Strategy Committee (CPSC) in March, and – if approved – a two-year project to compilie a ‘Public Spaces Manifesto’ would follow.
The manifesto – cutting across many CEC departmental boundaries and covering all parts of Edinburgh – would, among other matters, address:
Drummond Community High School S6 student and deputy headboy Greig Howitt, 17, has been highly commended in the youth category of the Scottish Landscape Photographer of the Year competition, writes David Sterratt.
He 'fell in love' with photography three years ago when he was given an old digital SLR camera belonging to his mum before a trip to South Africa. He taught himself how to use the manual settings, and since then has 'never put the camera down'.
REVIEWED BY RHYS FULLERTON
Every January, the Scottish National Gallery puts on an exhibition to rival most.
The Henry Vaughan bequest, featuring 38 of J.M.W. Turner’s stunning watercolours, has been shown each January, as stipulated, for over 100 years.
The strict condition of its timing only enhances the generosity of the gift, as limiting the watercolours’ exposure to daylight has helped preserve them for all these years.
A year ago I started writing my online musings for the Spurtle. I began by bemoaning the late indicators of Broughton, those who don’t value the lowly pedestrian’s safety and regularly try to mow us down.