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.
Aciter et Fideliter.
No. 34 in an occasional photo-series celebrating Spurtleshire street-name signs.
[Bottom image by Dnalor_1, Wikimedia Commons, CC-BY-SA 3.0.]
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Sunshine. Fanfare. Bar. Blooms.
No. 33 in an occasional photo series celebrating Spurtleshire street-name signs.
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Eighteen years old today and up for anything.
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Finally beginning to feel a bit like spring.
No. 32 in an occasional photographic series celebrating Spurtleshire street-name signs.
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Bright skies and bleesterin wind this afternoon.
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Canonmills Haugh or Loch may have been drained in 1847, but old habits die hard.
The hollow in which King George V Park and The Yard now nestle was formed in the last Ice Age, and, whether caused by natural or human influences, has been apt to fill up with water ever since.
Today, after what seems like weeks of continuous rain, the path connecting the Rodney Street Tunnel to Logan Street has flooded yet again.
The ghost of Christmas.
No. 31 in an occasional photo series celebrating Spurtleshire street-name signs.
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Expect delays on Broughton Street.
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The state of Edinburgh’s public realm in general and Picardy Place in particular have come in for a lot of criticism lately.
As an experiment, we wondered whether a mix of sunshine, poetic perspective and positive thinking might change the way we feel about Broughton's newly created Fantasy Island.
See what you think.