Out and about in Broughton this afternoon.

The Royal High School Preservation Trust’s revised proposals to form new premises for St Mary’s Music School at the old Royal High School on Regent Rd were approved today (22/02449/FUL).

The plans entail demolition of later ancillary buildings, new residential and practice facilities, a landscaped public garden, and a new basement under the Main Hall for foyer and associated works.

Icy underfoot.

Stitch is 1.5 years old and for the first time has gone missing from his home garden in Claremont Bank. Last seen at 4.30pm on Tuesday 6 December.

He’s a friendly soul:—a mostly white Ragdoll with a black face. He has been chipped.

Please send any hints or sightings to hollandmarie1@gmail.com. Or Tel. 07818076552. And kindly share links to this story with your contacts.

UPDATE

Edinburgh Council’s Transport & Environment Cmte on 8 December unanimously agreed to stiffen enforcement protocols as part of a first-draft Parking Action Plan appearing early in February 2023.

The new measures will:

RESEARCHER SEEKS EDINBURGH CONNECTIONS

It’s now 14 years since the death of one of Spurtleshire’s most esteemed residents, the political theorist and essayist Bernard Crick.

Best known for his biography of George Orwell and the classic In Defence of Politics, Crick moved to Edinburgh in 1984, living in a book-stuffed basement flat at 8a Bellevue Terrace.