After the mushrooms.

No. 17 in an occasional series celebrating Spurtleshire street-name signs.

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On Saturday 17 June, the Museum of Scottish Fire Heritage in Dryden Place had a preview opening for local residents.

The museum tells the story of fire fighting in Edinburgh and Scotland, from medieval times to the present day.

As you read this, advance copies of the printed Spurtle are already spreading across Broughton like traffic cones on a Canonmills footway.

July’s issue kicks off with a surprise refusal, a rug going nowhere, and things going bump, crash, hiss, rattle and squish in the night … for hours and hours and weeks on end. Also: violence, missing hands but no missing fingers.

Page 2 continues with bills, buses and a troubled frog. There’s news of no news in Gayfield Square, no news in Powderhall, an absence in East London Street, and a proposed reduction on Calton Hill. And bins.

Canonmills and neighbouring streets are an unsightly and trip-hazardous jummle.

So says Napier Bathrooms’ Johnny Bacigalupo.

This morning, he contacted the Spurtle with a photo catalogue of shortcomings, many of which he blames on Council neglect.

Canon Street

Narrow miss in Broughton this evening fuels demand for segregated Moon lanes.

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GEORGE STREET MAY GET GREENER

Built-heritage hard nuts and bark-hugging philarborists have compromised over proposals to improve and beautify George Street.

Until recently, architectural purists had argued for retaining the First New Town’s strict punctuation of hard design sentences with leafy full stops. Environmentally minded urbanists wanted softer sentences instead, with semi-colons to improve air quality, provide shade, and boost physical/mental wellbeing.

The glamour. No. 16 in an occasional photo series celebrating Spurtleshire street-name signs.

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Police Scotland issued a press release yesterday which we reproduce below unedited and in full.

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Police Scotland have released images of a man they believe may be able to assist them with their enquiries into an assault which occurred on Greenside Place in Edinburgh at around 10pm on Sunday 27 November 2022. [IMAGES REMOVED FROM ARTICLE HERE ON 30 JUNE.]

After 12 years in business, staff at The Beerhive are releasing their first beer, made in collaboration with the Closet Brewing Project.

Edinburgh-based Closet Brewing are one of the smallest micro-breweries (if not the smallest) in the country. Their name derives from the fact that the very first beers they made were brewed in a closet in their home!

They have now scaled up to their kitchen and this is where Peter Sherry and Beehive colleagues brewed the beer with them a couple of months ago.