EDINBURGH SAFARI (7)

Thanks to all who took part in our Edinburgh Safari (6) to discover 3D artificial snakes around the city. 

Thanks also to those readers who contacted us from deathbeds and prison cells with various feeble excuses. 

Congratulations to Graeme Brown and Penny Carstairs, who correctly identified 5 locations. Bells, whistles and balloons, though, to our runaway winner Elizabeth Maxwell-Gore, who spotted 7 of them and was defeated only by No. 6. (Follow the link above to see the pictures again.)

They were, in order of appearance: (1) 30–31 Chambers Street (formerly the Edinburgh Dental Hospital and School) (2) Greyfriars Burying Ground; (3) The Witches Well, Castle Esplanade; (4) The Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, 9 Queen Street; (5) National Library of Scotland, George IV Bridge (Celtic Myth); (6) Levitating costumed street performer, Parliament Square (right); (7) The Dome, 14 George Street (formerly the site of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh); (8) The National Library of Scotland, George IV Bridge (Medicine).

A doodle do

Now for a new challenge.

Spurtle has so far captured FIVE unique cocks in Edinburgh (see below). And not just your boring old living cocks – causing a nuisance first thing in the morning or leaping out at you from cereal packets – but dead-as-a-doornail cocks shaped, sculpted, or moulded by human hand.

You have until noon on 21 August to identify their locations and/or add other examples – however imaginatively interpreted – of your own. They have to be outside and free (i.e. no charge) to access.

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1. Port out.

2. High pitched.

3. If I had a hammer.

4. From gray to white.

5. One of two, set back, almost see-through.

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 We had fun with snakes over the last fortnight, but now we've moved on to cocks in Edinburgh Safari (7). Can you locate ours? Do you have any of your own? http://www.broughtonspurtle.org.uk/news/edinburgh-safari-7

 Corneilius Bell There's plenty of them juggling up in the high street right now...

 Lesley Pearson Ramsay Gardens? Going by what looks like a sculpture of Patrick Geddes behind the cock.

Broughton Spurtle Nope. Good effort. Try again. And thank you for raising the tone.

 Rosie Orr Sandeman House garden behind the Storytelling Centre, it is indeed bust of Patrick Geddes behind the cock.

 Marion Yvonne Sandeman Garden down Trunk's Close by the Cockburn Association office

 New Town Flâneur ‏@NewTownFlaneur