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JUST BLOWN IN FROM THE WINDY CITY

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Gusts of up to 53mph have rocked Broughton throughout today, bringing grimaces to the faces of pedestrians and smiles to those of roofers and television aerial installers everywhere.

The winds are supposed to be south-westerly, but disrupted by buildings, slopes and trees they can and frequently do rush up from almost any direction. Similar conditions are expected tomorrow.

One of this area's gustiest spots is at the corner of Melgund Terrace and Bellevue Street, where four local recycling wheelie-bins are notoriously prone to taking flight.

PLANNING UPDATE (15.4.13)

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Simpson & Marwick Solicitors seeks planning permission for 9 illuminated advertising signs and 2 television screens at their corner office at 58 Albany Street (Ref. 13/01131/ADV).

The display would be visible through the building's windows for the edification of property-hungry passers-by on Broughton Street.

GOVERNMENT CONSULTS ON 'GROW-YOUR-OWN' LAW REFORM

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The Scottish Government wants your opinions on allotment legislation.

Richard Lochhead, Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs and the Environment, today launched a consultation aimed at simplifying the rules and, if necessary, amending them to meet today's community needs.

Mr Lochhead did not exactly appear before the Press with a horse's head nailed to his desk, but he was certainly keen to link 'getting back to nature' with 'traceability':

ENJOY ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY, FUN, FREE FEASTING THIS SUNDAY

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Green-fingered and/or community-minded and/or hungry-but-cheap Broughtonians are going to enjoy this Sunday.

From 11am–1pm, Greener Leith are organising a spring-clean of cycle paths near St Mark's Park and the weir below Redbraes. Toshiba Medical Visualisation Systems staff will be lending a hand (presumably imagining the worst that could happen), and the Council have promised state-of-the-art litter-pickers, gloves and bags.

BEGUILING BYWAY

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It's hard to say exactly what appeals to us about the scene below, spotted today in a mystery location somewhere in the Edinburgh World Heritage Site.

It has something to do with the enlightened New Town's occasional lapses into shadow. Something to do with entropy and the doomed struggle to keep order. Something to do with a traffic cone which looked to us a bit like a Vivienne Westwood bride advancing solo up the aisle.

UNCERTAINTY OF THE SHORE

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'Refraction,' one dictionary declares, 'is the deflection of light, heat, sound etc. as it passes obliquely from one medium to another'. 

Something similar happens in the human mind at the boundary of earth and ocean. Remember that sudden quickening when you first saw the sea as a child? Remember the grown-ups' shrinking authority when you swam away? Remember the curving horizon?