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SUNDAY CAMERAMBULATION

Some gentle wanders about Broughton today revealed one local warming up on the steps of St Mary’s Cathedral with a glass of milk and a good read.…
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SUNSHINE AND SHOWERS ON HOWE STREET

The weather forecast predicts another day of sunshine and showers in Edinburgh, meaning another day of sudden brilliance and shadow on Howe Street…
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BLACK BIRDS AND RAVENOUS WAVES – 'IN THE OUTDOORS' ON HOWE STREET

Individual works by Susan Smith and Leo du Feu have often caught the eye at Bon Papillon in the past. This month, however, mother and son exhibit…
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LITTLE BROTHER IS WATCHING THEM

It is now nearly 65 years since Big Brother first made an appearance in George Orwell’s dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. The kindly or…
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OOOOOOOOH ... LOVELY!

There comes a point when words are no longer enough in talking about the works of Jenny Matthews.Either you get these paintings or you don’t.…
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St STEPHEN'S – NO NEWS IS BAD NEWS

The St Stephen’s Playfair Trust (SSPT) shows unmistakeable signs of frustration with the prospective buyer of St Stephen’s Church. He or she is not…
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PLACE, MOVEMENT AND PUBLIC SPACES

To saunter up Bellevue into Mansfield Place, writes David Hill, and survey, in the middle distance, the gentle ascent of Broughton Street into the…
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STEEL SAILS ON WINDSWEPT PERTH STREET

This elegant combination of triangles in steel mesh, suspended from a tapering tubular arc, stands at the end of Perth Street and is called ‘…
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SHIPSHAPE ELM – COMMUNITY SPRING CLEAN

Are you sick of stickers? Do you find graffiti grates? Does fly-posting really cheese you off? Stop moaning, then, and do something practical to…
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TOO-WIT TO-WOO AND ONE OF TWO

This perky but eroded owl is one of a pair at No. 20 Brandon Street, formerly the plant floor of Edinburgh printers R.& R. Clark. The company was…
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