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Prana is the Sanskrit word for ‘life force’, which cosmic energy seems to have inspired (and fuelled) Margaret Halliday’s three epic journeys around the Indian subcontinent as described in her first book Prana Soup: an Indian Odyssey, published recently.
Happy days, Spurtle Readers!
Recognising you as the sort of discerning customers any business would be proud to have more of, the Magnum Bar and Restaurant on Albany Street is offering a 15% discount on orders with food between now and the end of May.*
Edinburgh Printmakers have secured £5m from the Heritager Lottery Fund to redevelop Castle Mills in Fountainburdge as a world-class contemporary arts centre specialising in printmaking, it was announced today.
When the in-laws came to visit recently, we planned to go out for a nice, relaxing, Sunday lunch. Little did I know what I was getting myself into, or that it would leave me plucked and scared for the rest of my days.
Readers have been fascinated by the progress of 19-year-old local athlete and former Drummond CHS pupil Kimberley Reed.
Edinburgh businessman Kamran Akbar has applied for permission to change the use of 4B Gayfield Place (accessed via Gayfield Place Lane) from office to guest house/B&B (Ref. 14/01197/FUL).
If a group of 'far-sighted entrepreneurs' get their way today, the York Place tram stop may cease before it has even properly begun.
Spurtle understands that a plan put before transport chiefs in December, and due for determination this morning, proposes re-naming the York Place stop 'Leith Gateway' when trams start operating in May.
Broughton Scouts found themselves locked-out of St Mary's RC Primary School again on Friday evening following yet more problems with Edinburgh Council's unreliable janitorial cover.
Officers at Gayfield Square Police Station could have been forgiven for thinking an unplanned protest was in progress on East London Street (actually, there was) as Scouts chanted their dissatisfaction: ‘Boo to Bungling Cooncil’.
April is so close you can almost wring the raindrops out of your nose hair.
This year, though, don’t bother buying galoshes and a new sou’wester. Bat off the spits with a spanking new Spurtle, out soon in two varieties of shower-resistant black and white.
City of Edinburgh Council has made a firm – if slightly surprising – defence of how it processed the 154 McDonald Road planning application.