We thank reader Anne Sutherland for sharing the poem below, recently encountered online.

The Concrete Ballerina

On the cold platform, I watch them sway,

The cranes across the tracks today,

Hauling heavy concrete loads,

Above the busy, urban roads.

They twist, they pirouette, they dip,

A masterful, mechanic grip,

Bringing the city higher still,

Following the developer’s will.

It is an anonymous response to the giants currently at work on the New Town Quarter. 

Interesting. 

Intentional art or legless on shore leave? 

#Edinburgh 

#hyperlocal 

#news 

#spring

Larry Hutchison has been visiting the Christian Aid Book Sale since it first began in the early 1970s, writes Julia Forsyth, one of the organisers of the event. 

He first stumbled upon the sale almost by accident. He remembers Edinburgh back in the ’70s as a city full of second-hand bookshops. He has been a book trader and bibliophile all his working life, so would often come into the city seeking treasures in the form of books and ephemera. 

As you read this, advance copies of the May issue are already appearing across the barony like spring hares dodging buses on the A1. 

Page 1 skips into action with fivefold bad news for anyone wanting a permanent home in the Greater Spurtleshire area. There follows some cheerier reportage about city-centre piracy and another starring role for the heart of the New Town. 

K&S Mir Ltd seeks planning permission for a new extension of up to 3 storeys adjoining the A-listed The Place Hotel at 34–38 York Place (26/01440/LBC).

Apple TV has returned to the New Town to film scenes for Season 3 of its hit period drama The Buccaneers.  

Inspired by Edith Wharton's unfinished novel of the same name, the story follows wealthy American women attempting to infiltrate high society in Victorian London.