This, we like.
Obviously, it isn’t the finest piece of draftsmanship ever. But it has a squashed childlike friendliness to it.
The cat seems to belong to the neighbourhood (Dublin Street Lane South).
He makes us smile. He cheers us up.
And this – below – we admire for its attractive Tyrolean unexpectedness.
It is an artfully arranged pile of logs and kindling in a Drummond Place cellar arch.
But in fact there is only grass beyond, where once there was a productive vegetable garden before the floodworks contractors used it for parking a different kind of plant.
And finally: this, on the bridge at Warriston Junction, we don’t understand.
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@theSpurtle It is better than the usual vandalism and #tags we see in some parts of #Edinburgh.
@TheRealNickJury Agreed. Tags are just dog-wets, but without the underlying narrative complexity.
@theSpurtle Perhaps there's a piss jugs vendor in the Warriston area? Traditional craftsmanship should be encouraged.
@NewTownFlaneur We applaud your jug-half-full optimism.
@theSpurtle The stencil's author was presumably paying homage to John Keats' magnificent Ode on a Grecian Piss Jug.
@NewTownFlaneur We paraphrase: 'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,– that is all / Ye know on earth, and like well cool in a po, IMHO.'
@theSpurtle The author may also, I suspect, have emptied some dull opiate to the drains, and then run off towards Lethe.