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For the ‘S6 residential’ this year we went to Abernethy Barcaple near Castle Douglas in Dumfries and Galloway, writes Drummond CHS pupil Greg Howitt.
It was an eventful three days filled with team building, laughter and some interesting meals. From pizza and pasta to hot chocolate and some delicious biscuits, reactions were mixed. Even a surprise cake for Ali's seventeenth birthday was provided.
Orangemen are not the only suits, but you’d be forgiven for thinking so when an estimated 12,000 of them – some very smartly dressed – arrive in the capital this Saturday.
The Grand Orange Lodge of Scotland has organised a march in the city centre to demonstrate its support for the Union. This will entail road closures and diversions for traffic from 10.30am onwards.
A list of those streets immediately affected is in the file at the foot of this page.
Edinburgh-based People for Places (Shrubhill) Ltd is coming forward with revisions to the planning application first submitted by BL Developments Ltd in September 2005 and consented in August 2008 for the gap-site between Shrub Place and Dryden Street (Ref. 05/03128/FUL; see map below).
REVIEWED BY JOHN ROSS MACLEAN
This exhilarating oil painting of ‘Fishing Nets’ by Joan Eardley is a highlight of the current exhibition of significant mid to late twentieth-century Scottish artists at Glenn Ross’s Colours Gallery on Dundas Street.
It has a wonderful tang of the open sea, yet the rough netting, incised with the palette knife(?), has a delicacy as of gossamer.
Following a site inspection on Monday, City of Edinburgh Council is moving towards approval of the controversial garage/dwelling/office structure on East Scotland Street Lane (shown, right, as it first appeared).
S. Harrison Development Ltd (SHD) has applied for planning permission to build a mixed use development comprising student accommodation (226 beds), retail, café and restaurant uses at 34b Haddington Place (Ref. 14/03513/FUL).
Has anyone seen ‘Rory Macaroni’?
Christina Thomson installed him in the small mid-pavement garden at the end of Bellevue Place on Saturday evening.
By Sunday morning, his head had gone walkabout.
As the photo here reveals, the unmolested Macaroni bore an uncanny resemblance to Rory McIlroy, who is preparing to lead the European team against the US in the Ryder Cup at Gleneagles later this month. Any clues to the whereabouts of his missing bonce would be much appreciated.
Alternatively, just return it quietly under cover of darkness.
Work began last week and continued over the weekend to try and convert the garage on East Scotland Street Lane – which always looked like a dwelling and briefly had aspirations to be an office – back into a garage.
There was a lot of furious activity on the roof, and the glass elevation facing the tennis club has now gone, replaced by a roller shutter.
Frankly, it makes no sense.
This phrase adorns both sides of the Rodney Street Tunnel, where it first appeared, we think, in late July.
Spurtle has failed to establish any particular reference in the Moomin canon to sauce loving, or any contemporary usage of the term which clarifies its appearance here now.
If your superior understanding of the Moomins, Snork Maiden, Snork, Snufkin and the Muddler, or indeed your experience of making or retaining sauce, suggests a plausible explanation, we’d love to hear it.
Skye-based James Newton Adams’ paintings in his solo exhibition at the Union Gallery are mostly of people and places in the Hebrides or west coast of Scotland.
They are rendered in a style which looks, at first glance, rough, childish and unconsidered. A second look, though, soon reveals some very subtle brushwork and a more complicated approach: a process of paring down, refining each scene until what remains is a kind of irreducible narrative essence.