St MARK'S PARK
11.30pm, Saturday 11 May.
A breathtaking natural spectacle: the aurora borealis.
Or not.
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HOPETOUN CRESCENT
Edinburgh's most uneven wall?
No. 35 in an occasional photo-series celebrating Spurtleshire street-name signs.
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NO NEWS IS BAD NEWS
THE FUTURE OF LOCAL JOURNALISM IN SCOTLAND
As part of the UK-wide Indie News Week and the ‘No News is Bad News’ campaign from the Public Interest News Foundation, the Scottish Beacon (of which the Spurtle is a founding member) will hold its first public event in Edinburgh on 7 June.
OPINIONS DIFFER ON GREENSIDE VIEWS
CSG Projects Ltd wants to build a Richard Murphy-designed 5-bdrm home on land it owns between the office at 12 Blenheim Pl and Greenside Parish Church (24/01889/FUL).
MORNING HAS BROKEN
This morning, to celebrate International Dawn Chorus Day, Spurtle despatched its Avian Affairs correspondent to the tranquil slopes of Upper Greenside.
Here, at 5.19 am, somewhere above the omnipresent hum and hiss of the OMNi Centre plant, is what they heard …
Blackbird, blue tit, chiffchaff, coal tit, herring gull, nuthatch, robin, song thrush, woodpigeon, wren, Eurasian drug dealer and common taxi.
A MUSICAL NUISANCE
Edinburgh Council and Edinburgh street performers have recently been discussing how to better manage street performances in the city centre.
The problem of amplified music (Issue 334, p. 3) may be comparatively new, but the difficulty of preventing music-related nuisance has troubled Edinburgh authorities for years.
CALTON ROAD
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ISSUE 339 – PUBLISHED TOMORROW!
As you read this, advance copies of the May Spurtle (Issue 339) are already filtering across the barony like birch pollen from the nose of a violently sneezing hayfever sufferer.
We begin on Page 1 with a metaphorically mauled lion and some hypothetically possible but pricey play equipment. We have also a shift in boundary benefits and the post-industrial aesthetic of an appropriate typology mix.
Cars on Calton Hill
Dear Spurtle,
I was astonished while out for a walk around Calton Hill.
I entered by the broken gated service road and was passed by not one but two cars. The first headed directly up to the square in front of the observatory.
The second didn’t turn up but parked on the upper path area. A woman got out, then her dog. She locked up and while it walked itself and did whatever it had to do, she checked her phone and wandered.
THE ENTRY LOCK/BARRIER NEEDS FIXED.
Beverley Watson
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Spurtle's Issue 339 (published 1 May) will carry more news on this subject.