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Our partners at Muthambi Boys and Girls schools in Kenya went off on their long ‘summer’ holidays at the end of November, writes Drummon CHS Librarian and Partnership Coordinator Annie Scanlon.
They have completed their exams but have a couple of agonising months before the results come back. They will go home to farms and towns to work over the holidays and save money for the next session's fees. They will go back to school at the start of February when the weather is cooler.
The Dome on George Street may be Party Central these days, but it was not always so.
Where now stands a temple of food, drink, high heels and all things bubbling over with Christmassy-ness, there stood first a temple of Science and then another of Capitalism.
Designed by David Rhind and begun in 1844, today's building replaced a smaller classically influenced Physicians' Hall erected in 1775 to the plans of James Craig – the architect of the first New Town. The engraving below featured in Thomas Shepherd's Modern Athens (1829).
Police Scotland is the new national police service which will start operating on 1 April 2013.
It will absorb the Lothian and Borders Police we all know, love, and occasionally run away from in Broughton at the moment.
A new 'Local Policing Plan for Edinburgh' – as well as a new 'Fire and Rescue Service Plan' – will be delivered by a new Local Police and Fire Committee.
Six artists working out of SilverHub Studios in Leith are exhibiting their work in Translation at McNaughtan's Bookshop on Haddington Place this month. It's an intimate setting befitting artefacts of great subtlety and beauty which this reviewer found almost impossible to do justice to with the camera. Go and see them for yourselves! Below are some personal favourites.
Developers are coming forward with plans for the huge Shrubhill gap-site off Leith Walk (see map below).
Frasers Hamilton (Shrubhill) Ltd (FHS) will hold a staffed public exhibition of proposals on 23 and 24 January 2013 from 4pm–8pm in McDonald Road Library. Exhibition material (unstaffed) will continue to be displayed for two weeks afterwards.
In the run-up to Christmas, Spurtle is highlighting work by artists and crafters who create or exhibit locally.
You may be tempted to buy their work now for a friend, or to commission an original piece in the new year. Either way, you'd be helping keep Broughton's creative flame alight in the chilliest midst of a very dark winter.
Kenris MacLeod is a Spurtleshire-based textile artist and freehand machine embroiderer.
The proposal to erect a modern 2-storey dwelling at 4 Barony Place appears to have hit the buffers, at least for now (Ref. 12/03470/FUL).
Broughton St Mary's Parish Church on Bellevue Crescent is lit up this evening with eye-catching red beams.
The illumination marks World AIDS Day, and draws attention to the fact that the church has been open all day for those affected in whatever way who wish to spend some time in quiet reflection.
Spurtle has free tickets to give away for Christmas Crackers – a feel-good concert (with party afterwards) by No Strings Attached and The Queen Anne Singers' on 8 December.
The show will feature a selection of 'fun and festive music' from 'Sleigh Ride', 'Mr Santa' and favourite carols to traditional yuletide classics such as 'All Shook Up'; and 'Westside Story'.
A raffle and 'lots to eat and drink' will follow.
Film-makers working on a screen adaptation of Stephen Greenhorn's stage musical Sunshine on Leith have been out and about in the capital this month.
Featuring songs by the Proclaimers, it stars Peter Mullen, Jane Horrocks, George McKay, Kevin Guthrie, Antonia Thomas and Freya Mavor.