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Today was a day for unexpected optimistic glimpses.
Some were a way off, like this one of Fife … kingdom of perpetual sunshine.
From Calton Hill, there were also suggestions of new growth closer to home.
How wonderful to think of a 96m-high hotel joining these vertical clusters at Ocean Terminal.
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In King George V Park, some helpful soul – in a random act of kindness – had provided some of the means for bone-chilled parents to heat themselves up.
Along the cycle track by Warriston Junction, these opportunists – thrusting between the slats of a storm-flattened fence – gave hope of warmer times to come.
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Elsewhere there were Valentine’s Day flowers for sale, and intimations that the fight to keep the current character of Canonmills is far from over.
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It's Baltic now, we know, but have courage. In only 39 days' time, it will officially be spring.
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interesting notice in @earthyfoods in Canonmills today. Save 1-6 Canonmills