CELEBRATING 20 YEARS AT THE YARD
KNOCK, KNOCK ... WHOOOO's THERE?
Is this Spurtleshire's spookiest front door?
The Bridge Place flat on the edge of Stockbridge is the focus of many strange artistic adornments to nearby walls and pavements.
Within a few metres are inexplicable boots, faces, leaves, cogs, and an unsettling salamander scuttling for admission.
ISSUE 224 – OUT SOON!
Spurtle’s November issue is nearly here.
In it you will find: swarms, a heron, an invisible beastie, a mere hare, a meerkat, doggy teeth, pussy whiskers and a screeching gannet with gynaecological undertones.
PLEASED TO MEAT YOU, WAGYU
On the menu this week for the first time at L'Escargot Bleu is possibly the finest beef in the world. Certainly, it's the best chef Fred Berkmiller has ever tasted, and it comes from Japan via Perthshire
NO LONGER IN THE LIME OF FIRE – PLANNING UPDATE (29.10.13)
An application to build a 2-storey mews house in Northumberland Street North West Lane has been withdrawn (Ref. 13/04398/FUL).
BROUGHTON STREET BLOT, EDINBURGH PROBLEM
A Broughton Street resident is so annoyed at trade waste piling up outside and under her home, and so despairing of Edinburgh Council finding a solution unaided, that she has organised an online petition calling on Mark Lazarowicz MP to force changes.
SETTING PRIORITIES TO FEEL SAFER
The Leith Feeling Safe Community Forum (FSCF) will meet on 30 November to establish up to six new priorities for Police and Council workers to focus on in the Leith Neighbourhood Partnership area from December 2013 to March 2014. (This area contains much of what is properly considered Pilrig and Broughton south of Pilrig Street.)
FANTASY FOOD ON A FRIDAY EVENING
Maybe it’s the weather. Maybe it’s the time of year or the state of the economy. Whatever it is, there’s a noticeable appetite for escapism round here at the moment.
Crombie’s are feeling seasonal with this Halloween window display (right), presumably promoting Lucifer’s Matchsticks. The shop is reputed to have spooky basement secrets so terrifying that even grown butchers refuse to talk about them. We can vouch for the wall of silence on this matter.
YET ANOTHER LOCAL CAT WITH NO SENSE OF DIRECTION
A young cat – about 4 months old – was found meaowing and hungry in Warriston last night.
He has been fed since and is safe, but the good samaritan responsible now seeks the original owner.
WRITING ON THE WALL FOR SHRUBHILL WALL
The latest development proposals (Refs 13/01070/FUL and 13/01071/LBC) for the land at Shrubhill will go to committee on 23 October with a recommendation for approval, writes local resident Christopher Gray (see