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It is now nearly 3 weeks since the St Stephen's Playfair Trust (SSPT) failed to have its community bid for the 'New Town icon' accepted by the General Trustees of the Church of Scotland (Breaking news, 27.2.14). The rumour mill concerning the identity of the successful bidder has been working overtime since.
Is there a Bunty in your life, and did she lose something ‘important’ overnight last week?
New Town solicitors Aitken Nairn at 7 Abercromby Place think they’ve found it and now invite plausible enquiries.
How do you practise hospitality?
Henri J.M. Nouwen in his Reaching Out: The Three Movements of the Spiritual Life (1975) observed:
Hospitality means primarily the creation of free space where the stranger can enter and become a friend instead of an enemy. Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer them space where change can take place. It is not to bring men and women over to our side, but to offer freedom not disturbed by dividing lines.
Have a look at these!
Paintings, engravings and prints by Aileen Grant and Rona MacLean are exhibiting at Bon Papillon on Howe Street for the rest of this month. We like them a lot.
Leith Neighbourhood Partnership covers the Leith and Leith Walk council wards, and so covers a large chunk of Broughton. It is currently surveying local opinion as it plans what to prioritise over the next three years.
As Commonwealth Games volunteers gathered at Glasgow for a major induction event on Friday and Saturday, there appeared this cheerful chap in the rosebed at Bellevue Place.
A developer’s appeal against an Enforcement notice on his East Scotland Street Lane studio dwelling was finally dismissed yesterday (Ref. ENA-230-281; see pdf at foot of page).
Broughton Road residents are dismayed that contractors have begun felling trees on the wooded strip between their backgreens (Nos 32–62), Heriot Hill and the Claremonts (see map below).
In Dark Arcadias at the Union Gallery this month, Edinburgh painter Keith Epps examines what he describes disarmingly as ‘one of the least original ideas in art – Et in Arcadia Ego – where the dark and painful exist within the light and beautiful.’
The trigger for this sequence (24 works) was TV coverage of the 1990s Yugoslav Wars. Here, Epps found it ‘hard to equate those ghastly events happening within such a beautiful setting’.
Those readers who since June 2011 may have begrudged the expensive perfection of Broughton’s road to nowhere – East Scotland Street Lane (Issues 193