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There is some really excellent work on display at the Gallery on the Corner just now.
During the Spurtle paper-round on Monday, this foot-slogger was bowled over first by Jean Gillespie’s ‘Morning Glow (Cuba)’, pictured right.
Gillespie is Edinburgh-based (with a studio in Dalry). Her work at present ‘is based on themes derived from the figure or landscape,’ she says.
‘I am trying to create a reality in my work through which another separate world can be glimpsed.’
Local residents have alerted the Council to what they claim is unauthorised work using a JCB on land adjacent to 62 Broughton Road (the area known locally as 'Sandy Hill'). Officials investigated the situation this morning.
What do you buy the politically engaged diner in your life who has everything?
The answer is now obvious: a £600 set of six dinner plates featuring key players in Scotland’s Independence Referendum debate.
The pieces are the handiwork of Edinburgh artist Leigh Chorlton, who has been displaying them in an exhibition entitled Pollster in White Space’s gallery on Howe Street.
There was a mixture of laughter, passion, precise debating and occasionally a small measure of something like sorrow or wistfulness in Monday's Independence Referendum debate at the Calton Centre on Montgomery Street. Around 140 members of the public attended.
For the July issue of the Spurtle, we had hoped to have lots of exciting photographs and information about Drummond CHS’s visit to their partner schools Muthambi Boys and Girls in Kenya, writes Annie Scanlon (Librarian/ Co-ordinator Drummond Muthambi Educational Partnership).
Unfortunately, two weeks before departure, permission to travel was withdrawn.
Drummond – along with Currie and Portobello High Schools – had been planning to make visits in June.
Following disappointment at just missing out on the Commonwealth Games, local hammer thrower Kimberley Reed has bounced back with selection for the World Junior Championships.
We were at the England Athletics Under-20 Championships on 14 June, writes Kimberley’s father Scott Reed. That’s the qualifying event for the World Junior Championships in Oregon later this summer.
Sustainable transport charity Sustrans has produced an ideas document containing radical proposals for Picardy Place, York Place and Leith Street. You can view them here.
An archaeological dig on the site of the former Botanic Garden and Cottage on Haddington Place (1763–1821) will take place next month, and members of the public are invited to participate.
The latest Spurtle is nearly ready and will be beautifying Broughton with local news, views and opinion from Tuesday onwards.
Issue 231 contains July-flavoured coverage of umpteen nearby planning developments (good, bad and ridiculous), heroic hand-overs, adventurous disappointment, friends, flits, fudge, flying and farewells. Buses, bins and all the latest on macaroni follow, not to mention galleries, a refuge and the latest wholly unreliable cupcake-related Referendum voting-intention poll results.
Financial literacy and entrepreneurship were the subjects of a recent seminar for Drummond CHS pupils in years S3–S6.
Plumbing Pensions (UK) Ltd, which shares offices with SNIPEF at Bellevue House on Hopetoun Street, hosted the first ever RedSTART event in Scotland for Drummond pupils on 18 June.