COUNTRY CORNER

The bucolic pleasures of Bellevue Place are even bucolicer and more pleasurable at the moment than usual.

The junction with Mansfield Place – long beautified at her own expense by Christina Thomson and last reported in Breaking news (13.3.14) – is  now awash with colour, beautiful scent and exuberant growth.

From some angles ...

and with all the bricks, mortar, asphalt and city-centre bits judiciously cropped out ...

you could easily imagine yourself in the depths of the countryside.

However, around the corner in Melgund Terrace, someone is clearly taking the mick.