SOMETHING FAMILIAR IN REMOTE IMAGE?
A frequent Twitter correspondent to the Spurtle, @dOSsDaz, has been racking his brains recently trying to remember what a local street artist's designs remind him of.
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A frequent Twitter correspondent to the Spurtle, @dOSsDaz, has been racking his brains recently trying to remember what a local street artist's designs remind him of.
The Glasgow-based Iona Pub Partnership (which runs the 5-storey GHQ at 4 Picardy Place) seeks to erect a security fence on Broughton Street (Ref. 11/02616/FUL).
There's no point in re-inventing the wheel: CEC media staff have issued a perfectly decent press release which we reproduce almost in full below.
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VOTERS are being reminded that polling stations will be open this Thursday 18 August for the Edinburgh City Centre by-election.
The Festival is a time of feverish activity for all kinds of local businesses, not least Chariot Media who were working overtime yesterday afternoon to prepare, maintain and repair some of their 36-strong fleet of cycle rickshaws.
For much of the year, the rickshaws come out mainly at weekends in the evenings, but over the summer demand swells as visitors to the city sit back and take in eyefuls of scenery, earfuls of information or lungfuls of carbon monoxide depending on the route and traffic conditions.
We reviewed Philip Braham's exhibition Still. here a few days ago, and mentioned in passing the haunted quality of many of the paintings.
Now, it appears, Union Gallery co-owner Alison Auldjo is experiencing an odd chill of her own as she stands in front of the uncannily familiar figure in 'Bluebell Woods'.
Not for the first time, Spurtle raised the vexed issue of the effects supermarkets have on our town and city centres earlier this month (Issue 197). It prompted a thoughtful response in our Letters column, and a question on the topic was asked at last week's by-election hustings.
You can forget being fashionably late: a particular Spurtle correspondent prefers arriving on time or preferably early.
Hence, turning up today for Doggie Fun Sunday at 1.30pm on the dot, said correspondent was annoyed to find everyone else was late, including the organisers. Ten minutes' huffing and puffing and walking in circles followed. Then began the gnawing mongrel of doubt.
Know any good jokes? Mansfield Place-based charity Waverley Care want to hear them.
They've launched a new social-media campaign – #laffoffstigma – which uses humour to raise awareness of far-from-funny HIV stigma. It includes a joke competition, with £100 in Amazon vouchers for the winner.
Anyone seen Poppy? She popped out on Wednesday 10 August and didn't return.
Her Claremont Grove owners describe her as quite small with yellow eyes. She is jet black save for a few strands of white hair at her neck and shoulders.
She also has a kink at the very end of her tail which feels like it has been broken but is something she was born with.
Poppy – who hates being picked up – has been microchipped, so any vet would be able to identify her.
A rash of 'telecommunication broadband cabinets' are planned by Openreach for pavements across Broughton and elsewhere in the capital. They measure a whopping 1408mm x 750mm x 407mm and will be painted green. Local sites and reference numbers are listed below.
These new elements of street clutter may be necessary, but must they really be so enormous and all so green?