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David Sherry is a 38-year-old artist, originally from Newry in Northern Ireland, but later educated at the Glasgow School of Art and now resident in the West. He will be appearing at the Printmakers Gallery later this month.
Some of Sherry's best known work is his performance art in which he attempts to 'expose the systematic processes of day to day life'.
Seventeen-year-old Felix Kimathi is an aspiring journalist who visited Drummond in 2011 as part of the Drummond–Kenya Partnership scheme. In this, the second piece he has written for us (see Issue 204), he talks about life after school, and reveals that – in a period of economic hardship – there are surprising similarities between the experiences of disadvantaged young people in both the developed and developing worlds.
Sun's out. Sap's rising. Love's in the air. Cue music ...
The Drummond Big Band and No Strings Attached will be playing tomorrow evening (Friday) at Drummond Community High School.
The programme will include excerpts from Pick up the Pieces, Shrek 2 and Pirates of the Caribbean, and there'll be group sing-song opportunities for the unabashed and glad of heart.
The Water of Leith Conservation Trust is a charity established in 1988 'to conserve and enhance the Water of Leith as a haven for wildlife and an educational and recreational resource for all.'
Most people are well-disposed towards the Trust. They admire its excellent work in energising volunteers and communities to care for the river, encouraging improved public access to, enjoyment of and knowledge about this wonderful habitat.
Historic Scotland have applied for planning permission to erect an 8m-high 'saltire flagpole' in Edinburgh Castle (Ref. 12/00749/FUL).
If consented, it would fly from one of the highest parts of the landmark, on ground next to the whisky shop on the northern side of St Margaret's Chapel. It will be visible from Princes Street, Calton Hill, Waverley Station, and large parts of Broughton.
It looks like the end for these trees beside Canonmills Bridge, photographed this morning as contractors applied the coups de grace.
Malcolm Chisholm MSP has been in touch with the City of Edinburgh Council on Friday and again this morning, but holds out little hope.
A Council spokesperson told Spurtle this lunchtime that the last two trees scheduled for felling would come down today.
The Council also asserts that:
Council contractors began felling trees upstream of Canonmills Bridge on Friday, despite explicit assurances that they would be spared.
On 16 December 2011, Dave Anderson – the City of Edinburgh Council's Director of Development – responded to a huge wave of public protest at proposed felling as follows.
Love conquers everything.
Even the cracks in the pavement, even the fag ends caught in the cracks, even the gobbets of bubble-gum squashed and dessicated on the slabs.
The message below – observed yesterday, scrawled in pink chalk outside an East Claremont Street guesthouse – speaks eloquently about the salad days of new romance.
R and K, we salute you.
Long may the honeymoon continue.
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Readers probably remember the Gaia Group – an ensemble of sustainable development-minded planners, architects and engineers who used to work out of the so-called Monastery in Hart Street Lane (pictured below).
In Issue 204 we set the following picture challenge.
Name the location of this curious Broughton light-fitting and a £15 retro-style book token could be yours.
So far, Spurtle readers have responded – literally in their thousands – by either sending entries to the wrong addresses or not bothering to enter at all.
Senders of correct solutions to the correct addresses therefore stand a very good chance of having their names drawn first from the shooglie hat.