As you read this, advance copies of the November Spurtle are already appearing across Broughton like confiscated bangers on the floor of an Edinburgh custody suite. 

Page 1 begins with two blows, various tickets and a call for improved enforcement of hooks. 

There’s a digger, a coo and a questionable view on Page 2, plus grass-roots community action and reports of a tap, a crash and persistent floater. 

In the run-up to Halloween, we have been presenting some more or less unsettling images of life in Edinburgh.

Today we conclude with an unpleasant episode on Chambers Street.

Spurtle contributor A.

In the run-up to Halloween, we present some more or less unsettling images of life in the capital.

This image of a cù-sith (or 'fairy dog') was captured in the basement of a Broughton Street property in December 2007. 

In the run-up to Halloween, we present some more or less unsettling images of life in the capital. 

Jane Tweedie, Notes and Short Lines on Edinburgh (1946):

In the run-up to Halloween, we present some more or less unsettling images of life in the capital. 

Visit-Tips, November 2024 (source and location redacted):

In the run-up to Halloween, we present some more or less unsettling images of life in the capital.

Responding to the Erosion Emergency announced on 12 September (Issue 355), the Calton Hill Conservation Trust, Collective Gallery and Café Calton have together purchased 240 square metres of turf for the barren area fronting the National Monument.

In the run-up to Halloween, we present some more or less unsettling images of life in the capital.

Robert Burns, The Banks o' Doon: 

'How can ye chant, ye little birds 

And I sae fu' o' care!'

Applications for the latest Leith Chooses participative budgeting exercise should be submitted by midnight on Wed 5 Nov.

Broughton projects to the right of the line (see map below) are eligible.

Details at: https://www.broughtonspurtle.org.uk/node/add/story

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