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...love wordplay, doorstep tourism and what's round the next cornerstone, especially if it's a library's! And, love Central Library, Edinburgh - #SaveECL!
#EdinburghCentralLibrary
Joined April 2015
Daisy Carnegie, Edinburgh's Carnegie library cat on the payroll in the 1950s (featured in 'Lum Hats in Paradise')
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Why does @Edinburgh_CC pander to Essential Edinburgh's quasi extortion of businesses whilst sucking the life out of council tax payers' greenspaces within its Business Improvement District e.g. St Andrew Square Gardens @thecockburn @EdinburghWH?.
cockburnassociation.org.uk
At the time of writing, construction is visibly underway
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RT @ScottishLandCom: What can land reform do for urban Scotland?. Join our expert panel to explore housing, climate, and community power in….
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Save St Andrew Square Gardens, Edinburgh!.
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RT @HubrisTheBook: #MakeItHappen Camping it up with poor music and even worse jokes, Iames Graham has thrown away a story which was a genui….
sceptical.scot
Two Scottish financial journalists go to the Festival Theatre to review James Graham's Make it happen and emerge three hours later deeply unimpressed...
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RT @AlastairDalton: This might prove an oasis of calm away from the madding Festival crowds @NatRecordsScot https:/….
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RT @GlasgowCC: Fantastic progress on the conservation of the George Square statues. 🎥 Watch Queen Victoria's air blasting reveal the bronz….
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From Bleak House to bleaker houses, London to Edinburgh, plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.
I've photographed this before, but I'm still trying to catch just how bleak this new "luxury" development in #Wandsworth is .
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RT @MunicipalDreams: 🚨 My new blogpost: Social Housing in Cologne, 1913-1933: Light, Air and Trees … and Modernism.
municipaldreams.wordpress.com
It’s claimed that Cologne built more social housing than any other German city in the 1920s. The city’s housing programme deserves study in own right therefore but it also provides a fascinating ca…
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RT @PhilosophyMttrs: Why leisure matters for a good life, according to Aristotle …
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A philosopher argues that true leisure is when we can reflect on our real priorities, cultivate friendships and decide what kind of life we want to live.
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RT @TheEconomist: The bottom has fallen out of the job market
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The bottom has fallen out of the job market
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RT @jeremycorbyn: Is this Government going to put the nail in the coffin of the joy of digging ground for potatoes on a cold, wet February….
telegraph.co.uk
Former Labour leader and vegetable-growing fan accuses Housing Secretary of ‘trying to put a nail in the coffin’ of a long British tradition
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RT @DavidAltonHL: Before selling off allotments @AngelaRayner should think again. The 1925 Allotment Act was designed to provide green spac….
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RT @overlandertheb1: Scotland sold out from underneath the peasants.
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The 5,530 hectare Griffin Forestry Estate comprises the Griffin and Moness estates in Perthshire either side of the A826 south of Aberfeldy. I have a personal connection with the forest as I planted...
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RT @ReidFoundation: £17.6m on Glen Prosen estate with no management plan. ScotGov bought to “demonstrate how land in public ownership can h….
heraldscotland.com
Concerns have been raised over why ministers sanctioned £17.6m of public money to buy a sporting estate nearly three years ago without yet…
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RT @SaveOurWildcats: Where wildcats roam 🌲. Historically, wildcats have been associated with remote habitats, following centuries of being….
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RT @IsScotland4Sale: “The Burntisland Harbour Access Trust (BHAT) campaign group was then formed, who still continue to protest the fence a….
thenational.scot
A PROTEST has been organised amid an ongoing feud about a fence blocking access to a Scottish harbour.
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RT @STVNews: The Scottish Government has been accused of removing dangerous cladding at a 'glacial pace', after figures showed just 0.2% of….
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RT @RewildScotland: 55 million non-native pheasants released each year into our countryside and causing all types of harm just so a few can….
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