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Are you out and about this Saturday? Wear everything – you name it, sunproof, heat insulating, water-resistant – everything.
The Weather Channel reckons there's a 70 per cent chance of rain and a maximum temperature of 12º C.
The Met Office predicts a bright start followed by cloud and rain, then bright intervals and showers. Temperatures, they suggest, won't get above 13º C.
Does any reader recognise this wee chap?
He's a black-and-white male kitten aged about 6 months, and was first spotted in a back green off Rodney Street around Friday 3 May. He has not been chipped or neutered.
His current rescuer says:
'We first noticed him hanging about last Friday (3 May) as we have two other cats that we let out into the back garden and he tried to come in when we were calling our cats.
The brief to artists for this month's exhibition Neighbourhood Birds at Bon Papillon was to depict 'birds of garden and field that are often overlooked and victimized'.
The result is an aviary of at least 20 put-upon species, including a peacock. Clearly, some artists have bigger gardens or are more flexible about briefs than others.
What appear here are a very few favourites, chosen from a list which could easily have included 10 more using an interesting variety of techniques and media.
Proposals to create a Pilrig Conservation Area (PCA) are being considered by the Council's Planning Department, and will be explained in public soon at a series of local open evenings and an exhibition.
Local woman Laura Gorrie has been missing in the capital since 8.45pm on Wednesday 1 May, and Edinburgh Police are now seeking help to trace her.
In advance of the New Town and Broughton Community Council AGM/meeting on 13 May, Chair Ian Mowat is again consulting Albany Street residents about the respective merits of end-on and angled parking.
With the arrival of long days and the promise of warmer weather, many Broughton cats will now be making plans for their holidays.
Whether it be away-days to Goldenacre, spa-breaks in Bonnington, or romantic weekends in a luxury hide-away basement somewhere deep in the New Town – the possibilities for relaxation and adventure are limitless.
Shake off winter!
Annette Edgar's solo exhibition Life Times at the Union Gallery this month features brilliant, joyous, colour-saturated affirmations inspired by scenes of Los Angeles, Tuscany, Majorca, and occasionally Scotland.
Artist, writer and critic Jack McLean says of the work: ‘I know of no other Scottish painter whose paintings burn with such colour. You come away from an Annette Edgar exhibition with a suntan.’
This ordinary local sign is pretty humdrum at first glance.
Until you realise that it is warning drivers on York Lane about St Mary's RC Primary School, which moved from grounds here to East London Street almost 20 years ago.
Ear plugs at the ready!
Starting on Sunday at Haymarket, a rail-mounted yellow grinding machine will progress at walking speed along Edinburgh's new tram tracks towards York Place and back again on both inward and outward routes.
The machine, to the untutored eye, resembles two armour-plated burger wagons on their way to the Russian Front.