MESSAGES FROM AN UNKNOWN CONFIDANTE

Submitted by Editor on Wed, 30/07/2014 - 11:48

Returning home yesterday evening, Spurtle reader Miranda Gilhooley spotted this curious message attached to the policebox in Drummond Place.

Measuring, ‘framed’, roughly the size of a postcard, it reads like an overhead snippet from a stranger’s telephone conversation.

'Humdrum but interesting,' Gilhooley describes it. 'Steven sounds nice.'

Gilhooley wondered whether the background to this note – an article about Mark Danielewski's The Familiar – had any connection with the local correspondent's choice of format.

She then continued on her way, and had just begun to ponder wherther there is enough space in Broughton for the remaining 873 or more days’ worth of stray thoughts to be positioned when she chanced upon this.

Another fragment of thought, this time considering the strengths and limitations of a local community, perhaps ours.

It was stuck to the side of a junction box in East Scotland Street Lane.

Can any reader explain this intriguing phenomenon, or tell us where to find more? Please send locations, photographs and reactions to us by email: spurtle@hotmail.co.uk or Twitter: @theSpurtle or Facebook: Broughton Spurtle

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Broughton Spurtle ‏@theSpurtle   4h Messages from an unknown confidante: http://www.broughtonspurtle.org.uk/news/messages-unknown-confidante … Have @NewTownFlaneur or @whitegallery11 spotted any? #art pic.twitter.com/MiGCWs8L8f

New Town Flaneur ‏@NewTownFlaneur   2h

@theSpurtle Hope there's one featuring slaloming around dog poo while repelling demented avians & being run over by fleets of Land Rovers.

New Town Flaneur ‏@NewTownFlaneur   2h @theSpurtle In any case, I shall investigate on my return to Spurtleshire.

Donna Bell ‏@Donnabell0412   4h @theSpurtle @NewTownFlaneur @whitegallery11 Day 115 spotted on bus stop at bottom of Dundas street

By email from Caroline Roussot: The author of this seems to lead a more mundane existence than the lives of, say, the book sculpture creator or the artistic knitters! The knitters have done some quite cool stuff (Doctor Who anniversary commemoration with a scarf wrapped round the Canonmills police box; they marked an exhibition at the National Gallery for which the Gallery had clothed the columns of its front facade in sort of rainbow leg-warmers, with a set of knitted rainbow railing-warmers on railings at the junction of Howe and Northumberland Streets; there was recently a similar set of bollard-warmers outside Cuckoo Bakery on Dundas Street but I didn't 'get' the cultural allusion).

  Matthew Halsall ‏@matthewhalsall   21m Here's one under Waterloo Bridge #art @theSpurtle pic.twitter.com/3fc8hhia5P

David Monk ‏@dcmonk79   43m

@edinspotlight @theSpurtle There's one on the billboards in front of Shrubhill.

  New Town Flaneur ‏@NewTownFlaneur   1h @theSpurtle I wonder if we'll discover what colour trousers the Steven character wears.

B roughton Spurtle ‏@theSpurtle  59m

@NewTownFlaneur I hope so. Red at weekends, possibly. RBS victim? Anyway, she seems to be going off him now. See latest example.

New Town Flaneur ‏@NewTownFlaneur   43m @theSpurtle ....and leather during the week. Which may explain why she's going off him. Ormaybe he's an android.

matthew ‏@professorgillan   6m @theSpurtle @edinspotlight what kind of so called "writer" would deface the cricket report like that. What with@blowersh in town.