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'The streets of London are paved with gold!' cried Dick Whittington, a delusional but socially mobile 14th-century pauper-turned-mayor.
Bilfinger Berger, the manufacturers of large holes (which allegedly come with optional tramlines on top), reckon that the streets of Edinburgh are paved with red faces and red tape, lots of it.
Courgettes are well and truly in season at the moment, and can be spotted springing up everywhere.
Below is an explanation of the map we reproduced and queried in Breaking news (10.7.12). It was originally written by Alf Orriell of the Edinburgh Trams Coordination Team, and was, we assume, intended to accompany his 'schematic' emailed across the city (see foot of page).
However, it did not. Today it was sent again (as if nothing had not happened) but with an additional point by Mr Orriell written on 11 July.
As regular readers will know, Whisky Kiss are a Broughton-based ceilidh outfit who've developed a show that sees the band and DJ mix some of the world’s coolest tracks with the finest underground folk tunes and native instruments from Scotland, writes bassist Iain MacPhail.
City of Edinburgh Council has published a map detailing the proposed traffic diversions which may come into force during lengthy tramworks on York Place. A pdf is available in the file at the foot of this page.
Residents in Albany Street and Heriot Row will not be happy. Neither will those in Abercromby Place, not least because the Council cannot even get the name of their road right.
Say hello to Catherine Robb, whose new shop – Kathy's Knits – will open at 64a Broughton Street on Friday next week.
'Knitting is my lifelong passion, but in Edinburgh most smaller shops supplying wool have vanished, to be replaced by big chains and ordering over the internet. It's all become so impersonal.'
Kathy plans to reverse that trend, bringing a friendly touch and 30 years' experience to the new venture. As well as the chance to buy wool, knitting equipment and related paraphernalia, there will be time and space for customers to work, chat and exchange tips.
Canonmills residents have been left fuming after the weekend inundation. Here, former 'Stop the Chop!' campaigner Ani Rinchen Khandro tells the Spurtle why.
It gives us no pleasure to say 'We told you so!' to Edinburgh City Council. During the recent heavy rainfall, the so-called defences not only failed to protect property but actually contibuted to their flooding. This is hardly surprising for the following reasons:
Standing in front of Dylan Lisle's new paintings at the Union Gallery, it is difficult sometimes to get past a kind of jaw-gaping admiration for his technique.
Lisle deploys the methods of past masters – for example, 'Vermeer and Van Eyck’s monochromatic underpainting and glazing, Caravaggio’s complex layering and the Venetian technique further developed by Titian' – to render his chiaoroscuro-lit (mostly female) figures and draperies in exquisite detail, capturing skin tones, fur, feather and fabric textures with more than photographic accuracy.
Heavy rain has again caused flooding along the Water of Leith, although so far not on the same scale as in April 2002. Basements on Warriston Crescent and in the Stockbridge Colonies have been affected.
Eccentri:city – a showcase of contemporary jewellery – launches next week at Whitespace Gallery on Gayfield Square. All the objects are inspired by Edinburgh.
Readers may reasonably expect deeply pitted pieces filling with rainwater and brown sauce, but they will be pleasantly surprised.