ISSUE 353 – PUBLISHED TOMORROW
As you read this, advance copies of the August Spurtle have already begun appearing across the barony like lost Oasis fans shambling at dusk in search of affordable hotel rooms.
CANONGATE
An eldritch opening.
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#strangecity
#yellowboots
PRECIPITOUS SPURTLESHIRE
Brownie points to anyone able to identify this steep corner of Greater Spurtleshire. Location will be added to the foot of the page in a few days' time.
In the meantime, see map here. Beware of Broughton's elastic boundaries.
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THOUGHTFUL
A quiet moment on Calton Hill.
City Observatory in the background.
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#news
#mindfulness
KERR STREET
Glad to see that top heritage boss is easing gently into the new job.
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#Cockburn Association
#Edinburgh World Heritage
DIVERSE PATHWAYS
To make my way to a funeral service, I took the tree-lined Warriston Path into a sunny St Mark’s Park.
OVERGROWN AND UNDERMAINTAINED
Dear Spurtle,
Yet again, with the tourist season ahead of us, the city looks like a slum.
The weeds are just ridiculous, especially in the New Town, as are the potholes.
In the street where I live – Bellevue Crescent – they are positively dangerous. (I should know, having fallen twice into them and injured myself to the extent that I required hospitalisation.)
I have reported both these issues (and graffiti) over 20 times and nothing – precisely NOTHING – gets done about it.
So much for the UNESCO World Heritage New Town. It’s a joke!
Tourism is massively important to this city, yet many tourists I speak to through my work are appalled by the state of the roads and pavements – does nobody care?
Who is accountable?? Why does this go on, year after year?
Can’t we start a campaign to finally get some results?
Katie Wood
(Bellevue Crescent)
