Today's evening spectacle was of course interesting to serious astronomers and general gawpers at the heavens alike.
But it was also a pleasingly social event.
Calton Hill was rammed: a chattering, laughing and marvelling super-spreader event enjoyed by all.
We witnessed locals lending eclipse-specs to passing strangers from a bench in Mansfield Place. Smiles all round.
This afternoon, work was under way to install this huge and intriguing sculpture on Calton Hill.
Travelling in style.
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As you read this, advance copies of the August Spurtle are already spreading across the Barony like convenient fires in prominent but problematic development sites.
A conversation between friends.
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At the bottom of Broughton Street stands a church building which in 1990 was semi-derelict and facing possible demolition.