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The weather forecast predicts another day of sunshine and showers in Edinburgh, meaning another day of sudden brilliance and shadow on Howe Street where Hatti Pattisson is exhibiting work at No. 25.

Individual works by Susan Smith and Leo du Feu have often caught the eye at Bon Papillon in the past.

This month, however, mother and son exhibit together for the first time in a happy combination of similar interests and differing styles. Both are fascinated by nature in general and birds in particular.

It is now nearly 65 years since Big Brother first made an appearance in George Orwell’s dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.

The kindly or threatening embodiment of totalitarianism has since become synonymous with mass surveillance, or the intrusive abuse of such surveillance technology by the state.

There comes a point when words are no longer enough in talking about the works of Jenny Matthews.

The St Stephen’s Playfair Trust (SSPT) shows unmistakeable signs of frustration with the prospective buyer of St Stephen’s Church. He or she is not talking to them.

To saunter up Bellevue into Mansfield Place, writes David Hill, and survey, in the middle distance, the gentle ascent of Broughton Street into the city centre is an experience to make the heart leap.

This elegant combination of triangles in steel mesh, suspended from a tapering tubular arc, stands at the end of Perth Street and is called ‘Swoop’.

Are you sick of stickers? Do you find graffiti grates? Does fly-posting really cheese you off?

Stop moaning, then, and do something practical to help clean-up the neighbourhood.

Teams of 4 or more will meet on 9 May to start smartening up local streets, including:

This perky but eroded owl is one of a pair at No. 20 Brandon Street, formerly the plant floor of Edinburgh printers R.& R. Clark.

The company was established in 1846 by Robert Clark, with financial help from his cousin Richard.

Anyone who thought they had seen the last of this remarkable structure at 8 East Scotland Street Lane should think again.