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)
St NINIAN’S ROW
The long drop and a flash.
No. 46 in an occasional photo-series celebrating Spurtleshire street-name signs.
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#vertigo
BETTER OUT THAN IN
This online piece adds detail to the printed article 'Coining it in' which appears in Issue 352, p.3
ISSUE 352 – PUBLISHED TOMORROW!
As you read this, advance copies of the July Spurtle have already alighted on local shelves like fleas bagging sunbeds on a hedgehog on holiday.
GRANTON BREAKWATER
July 2025.
Clouds on the horizon.
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FIRTH OF FORTH
Today it was blowy.
Some unreliable background history here: https://www.broughtonspurtle.org.uk/news/half-sunk-without-trace
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#check the date
BROUGHTON STREET
Two souls with but a single thought.
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#lunch
#hungry