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WHAT I THINK ABOUT WHEN I THINK ABOUT WALKING
Why do I walk?
One reason is to try to understand what I really think. It’s an attempt to capture the insights that, like fireflies of the unconscious, flicker at night then vanish into the pale mists of dawn.
I’m talking about the kind of purposeless, meaningful stroll that, rather more than daydreaming, is akin to being on the couch, on the road.
At 10am yesterday, a queue of lorries started to form in McDonald Place as they waited to gain entrance into Batleys cash and carry.
The Batleys yard was already full of HGVs, and at 10.15am – when the situation hadn’t changed – local resident Alistair Robertson began to take pictures. A parking attendant arrived to sort the problem out.
Spurtle was pleasantly surprised by this addition to the Bellevue Crescent streetscape earlier today.
It offered a refreshing change to the ranks of black Mercedes, Jags and New Town tractors normally found across this part of town.
Was it, we wondered, the first in a fashion for sober judges going jungly in the world of youth culture? Or just a single rogue banker, releasing his inner velociraptor?
Cheap and cheerful
Sixty-five local children will be running later this month to raise money for play equipment and picnic seating in the playground at Broughton Primary School.
The pupils are taking part in the 1.5km and 2km events of the Edinburgh Marathon Festival on Saturday 28 May.
Transformation of the Botanic Cottage will be complete later this month when members of the public are finally able to walk inside and look around at a special Garden Gala event.
Today, Spurtle enjoyed a sneak preview of the newly repositioned, reconstructed and refurbished building, first completed 250 years ago on Leith Walk in May 1766.
An increasingly noisy row has broken out on Dundas Street concerning early-morning disturbance or the lack of it.
Archipelago Artisan Bakery at No. 39 has been granted retrospective planning permission to change its use from a Class 1 bakery to a hybrid Class 4 (making of baked goods for wholesale).
NEIGHBOURHOOD PARTNERSHIP FACES CRITICISM
Spurtle has nothing against Leith.
We love it. We visit it daily and report aspects of it which are relevant to Broughton on a regular basis.
Local results for the Scottish Parliamentary elections are in.
They show significant gains for the Scottish National Party, Conservatives and Greens. And significant losses for Labour.
In Edinburgh Northern and Leith, the SNP’s Ben Macpherson took the seat from Labour (overturning former incumbent Malcolm Chisholm’s 595 vote majority).
What follows is a Police Scotland press release issued yesterday afternoon. We reprint it in full and unedited.
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Police in Edinburgh are appealing for information after a man in his 20s was seriously assaulted as he waited for a bus on the North Bridge.
The incident occurred at around 3:30am on Wednesday, May 4th, at a bus stop nearest to the junction with the Royal Mile on the east side pavement.
Locals were unimpressed today by unsightly repairs to 20 sq.m. of East London Street.
Andrew Haddow, who contacted the Spurtle, said Council workers were ‘fixing the massive potholes created by buses rolling down the street at all times of day and night, and during the diversion around Broughton Street when it closed during St James Quarter preparations’ (Issue 242).