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TO HAVE AND TO HOLD

Do you have a summer wedding to attend, but can’t find exactly the right thoughtful and unique present for the happy couple?Your problems may be over…
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SUMMER SCENES – WILD AND UNDERSTATED

We thank reader John MacDonald for this photograph, taken recently in the Botanics. 'It's a glorious field of predominantly yellow and…
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UPS AND DOWNS IN THE PARK

The last time I wrote about the etiquette at swing parks, I almost sent one reader to sleep (see comments here), so please read with caution. …
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KEEPING CALM AND CARRYING ON

We live in tumultuous times. Broughton has responded with customary wisdom, wit, and peculiarity. We begin with a torn sticker adhering to…
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TWO-MINUTE MASSAGE TO SAVE FACE

If you’re heading off to sunny climes this weekend – Newhaven, perhaps, Porty, or North Berwick ­– the following advice may be of interest.It…
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ANYONE SEEN HARPER?

This small two-year-old local is normally in and out of the backgreens behind Cornwallis Place, and sometimes finds her way along as far as the…
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EDINBURGH IN THE ELEMENTS

Photographers Paul and Lynn Henni live in Broughton, and a sense of local knowledge and affection pervades their exhibition of Edinburgh scenes…
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INSPIRED COLLISION

What makes great portrait photography?Last summer’s Stardust – the David Bailey retrospective on the Mound – left this reviewer cold. So too…
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MIXED FORTUNES FOR LOCAL PLAYERS

The nation’s attention may have been focused on Wimbledon recently, but more important things have been going on closer to home.Drummond Tennis Club’…
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LOCAL PERFORMANCE FOR WORLDWIDE CAUSE

What’s the first thing that springs to mind when a friend comes to visit Edinburgh for the first time? Possibly not: Let’s perform some…
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