On 16 August, local stakeholders met Council-appointed agents to discuss the  future design of the Picardy Place island. In Issue 321, we published a measured account of those proceedings by Peter Williamson, who attended as Chair of the Picardy Place Residents Association.

That end of Festival feeling.

As you read this, advance copies of the September Spurtle are already spreading across Broughton like pizza fragments round a bin full of rats.

Page 1 begins with a temporary fix, an entirely predictable and predicted fiasco, and a ‘feature façade’. It’s all infuriating. Thank God for the clock and the flock.

Fake flowers feature on Page 2, as do too much of a good thing, too little of a good thing, and a dog’s breakfast.

Looking forward to a more fragrant start to September. Waste services resume tomorrow. Schedule, advice, and fond hopes here: https://edinburgh.gov.uk/binstrike

The view from Salisbury Crags.

People watching today in the open air for free.

'Damn, no brush.'

Back open on Broughton Street today.

Visited Newbattle, Midlothian today.

Greatly struck by these trees and people's relation to them – simultaneously modern/ irresponsible and ancient/pagan/strangely attuned.