Street art

You can travel the world on a Hebridean beach.

Each outgoing tide leaves behind stories: flotsam, jetsam, bookshelves and messages in bottles.

Or you can stay at home and wander the lampposts of Edinburgh.

Some poles include only the tight-packed prose of traffic regulation orders. Others are adhesive palimpsests, competing tales like barnacles encrusting rocks.

Berlin ‘s illicit drug scene features often, as do fascist football casuals from across the Continent. ­

Gives you wings.

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Cheerful conversation on a sunny day.

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The earliest known figurative representation of the human form depicts an exaggeratedly proportioned pregnant woman carved from mammoth tusk.

That Hohle Fels Venus, discovered in 2008 in southern Germany, is at least 35,000 years old. According to its finder, Nicholas Conard, it ‘radically changes our views of the context and meaning of the earliest Palaeolithic art’.

This interesting graffiti at the Broughton Street end of Albany Street Lane makes use of a pre-existing incision in a random flagstone.

At first glance it reads like a half-remembered song lyric, but in fact it loosely paraphrases part of Mao Zedong’s concluding speech to the Sixth Plenary Session of the Sixth Central Committee of the Party on 6 November 1938.

We thought it might be interesting today to quote from Zedong’s paradoxical Problems of War and Strategy at greater length.