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It's a bus.
It's a big bus.
It's a big, red-and-white bus.
It's a big, red-and-white, No. 8 bus.
It's the big, red-and-white, No. 8 bus which goes up and down Broughton Street.
Anyone got anything else they'd like to add? Good.
'Number 8 Bus' by Keith Thompson is available as a limited edition print at Curiouser and Curiouser. For those who missed it the first time, here it is again.
Waverley Care are marking World AIDS Day, and raising funds for themselves, by inviting guests to enjoy a 'sumptuous' meal by an award-winning Italian chef.
For the occasion, on Thursday 29 November, members of the Mansfield Place-based charity will embark on a gruelling trek across town to Locanda de Gusti at the end of East London Street.
Out of the Blue (OotB) has won an inaugural Creative Edinburgh Award.
The Dalmeny Street studio/gallery space, venue, café and arts hub triumphed in a competition recognising those creative organisations in the capital which have united, inspired or promoted their peers over the last 12 months.
At last night's Summerhall ceremony and celebration, OotB was particularly acclaimed for its role in 'uniting the creative community of Edinburgh to spark business opportunities and collaborations'. North Edinburgh residents have been singing its praises for years.
The Category A-listed Playhouse Theatre on Greenside Place has applied for planning consent to construct a temporary covered walkway and staircase (Ref. 12/03983/LBC).
The purpose is to facilitate the surprise release of costumed cast members into the audience during performances of The Lion King, at some unspecified date.
Residents, family, friends and staff are gathering this afternoon at the Letham Park Care Home on Ferry Road to open a new patio garden.
South-facing, and protected from the wind by a high wall, it is a green haven for those craving fresh air. Bill Fraser (pictured right with Manager Alison Cavender), steps outside to watch the rabbits and smoke a pipe three or four times a day 'come rain or shine'. He loves it here.
The Union Gallery's Christmas Exhibition features a mixture of new and familiar works by artists whose works have shown here before over the past three-and-a-half years.
It's an unashamedly upbeat and approachable collection, which should do well as customers decide either to treat friends or to ride out the recession by ignoring them and staying indoors with something beautiful on the wall. Described below are a few personal favourites.
She is currently baking a lurgie.
We hope to have her cured in plenty of time for Christmas.
Readers may have noticed flyers on lamp-posts across Broughton last week appealing for information about the whereabouts of an extraordinary-looking Bengal cat called Olli.
He had gone missing from his home in Dublin Street North on 11 November, and all searches and enquiries had drawn a blank. His owners were concerned since he had been living with them in Madrid recently, and perhaps had not regained his sense of Edinburgh direction.
When most people imagine a coral atoll, they mostly think of sparkling seas and blue skies, of white beaches and the wind singing gently through the tops of the palm trees. Reality, though, is rarely perfect.
New to Broughton – Life Story is apparently set to open this afternoon.
Interested locals report a flurry of comings and goings, last-minute arrivals and departures, speculative parking, a palpable sense of anticipation.
Based in the former Moviebank (the former former Post Office) at 53 London Street, the store promises 'a unique shopping experience'.