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Samhuinn, the annual Celtic farewell to Summer and celebration of the New Year, will take place on Sunday 31 October. Take celebratory attitude and mittens.
The procession will leave from Castlehill at round 9:00pm and move on to West Parliament Square. Crowds will remain there until around around 11:00pm. Donations in fancy buckets welcome.
Council marketing hacks are doing their best this morning with a press release inviting families to celebrate Halloween on Saturday in the Waste Aware Cabin at Fillyside Road, Seafield (11am–3:00pm).
Thrills will include examining wildlife in a compost heap and a guided tour of the City's largest recycling centre, not to mention ghostly competitions and activities during a 'fun-packed day'.
However, just when you thought things couldn't get worse: '... Alchemy Arts will also be hosing a Halloween themed masks workshop'.
That settles it. I'm not going.
The Guardian/Edinburgh has aired concerns about redevelopment at Canonmills.
[This article is being updated as politicians react. See bottom of the page for latest developments.]
The Osbourne Hotel at 51–9 York Place has been granted planning permission for alterations to the existing hotel, including an extension to the rear, building-up of the shop entrance, removal and replacement of a door canopy, and installation ofl new railings (as amended) (Ref. 10/02385/FUL; Breaking news 1.9.10).
Ichthyotherapy is the kind of spa treatment which draws excited gasps from some people, and reduces others to high-pitched squeals of revulsion. Either way, it is coming to an extremity near you very soon.
Appy Feet will open their newest branch at No. 41 in the St James Centre (near the Leith Street entrance) on Monday 25 October. They employ a technique which originated in Turkey (and is now popular across the Far East) whereby hands and feet plunged into warm water are then nibbled upon by inch-long fish to remove dead and calloused skin.
The headline above contains terms not usually associated with positive publicity, but in this case they exactly describe the effects for which Axo Gallery and artists' initiative Coup Red are aiming.
An original 'Happening', We are Gruesome will celebrate all things grotesque in an event combining contemporary art and performance, sound sculpture, and – perhaps most terrifying of all – audience participation.
The Danish Cultural Institute (DCI) are running free cycle lessons for 6–10-year olds this Saturday.
Bicycle instructor Darren Mirfield will lead 40-minute sessions between 1:00pm and 4:00pm in the playground of the Edinburgh Academy on Henderson Row.
The initiative builds on the DCI's 'Dreams on Wheels' exhibition at the Botanics last winter which showcased the Danish cycling tradition, bicycle design, and urban planning in the run-up to the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen.
For the second year running, Nelson's signal has not been displayed at the Royal Navy and Royal Marine Club on Broughton Road.
The running-up of flags was for many years a distinctive Trafalgar Day tradition in Broughton, but despite Spurtle's calls to revive the practice nothing has yet been done.
The bare flagpole stands forlorn, reminiscent of an aircraft carrier with no aircraft.
Emailing from an owl-filled wood somewhere in Lochaber, land issues writer and researcher Andy Wightman has responded to recent events in Multrees Walk (Breaking news).
'I think the public have a right of access under the Land Reform Act,' he told Spurtle, 'and thus it is a "public place" even though technically it is private.
'So, there should be no problem taking photos.