Giraffes! a People
Who live between earth and skies
Each in his own religious steeple
Keeping a lighthouse with his eyes
from edinburgh.org
From an extinct volcano, to the panoramic view of the city and her coastline from Salisbury Crags; to a bookshop that took care not to ‘strip’ the original house that is now its home, and instead built bookshelves around what had long been intended; to extraordinary skies, and sculpture with a back-story; to one of the world’s finest universities; to a modern parliament building whose walls are engraved with poetry; to some of the most elegant residential architecture you’ll see anywhere in the world – that is also home to the echoes of housemaids and butlers, lairds and ladies, surgeons, architects, engineers and plumbers – who loved and sometimes hated this beautifully laid city; gateway to the world for some, too small a world, indeed once the World’s End, for others. Today, Edinburgh has something for everyone, and everyone has something for Edinburgh – for this is a city long engaged in writing the fascinating stories of innumerable people’s lives, now including my own …
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Topping and Company looks amazing! I know I could easily spend an afternoon (and I am dying to read Snuggie Bain). What a city!!
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I haven’t known of Shuggie Bain until now – but love the name 🙂x
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I do, too, Simon. Here’s a story about the book I heard a while back…
https://www.npr.org/2020/11/14/934548946/shuggie-bain-will-lift-you-up-and-tear-you-up
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Thank you! I’ll have a look now. I’ve just been reading some bumph and will almost certainly read this – described as brilliant for a debut novel 🙂x
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Look forward to your thoughts! Xx
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Will do. Really, really does look / sound quite special … x
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