never ceases to amaze

Although it isn't unusual to see the council's operatives out and about on a Sunday they're usually doing something useful like diluting the sick along George IV Bridge with foul-smelling water or sending one of those brushing-machines and three blokes (and always that one blonde woman) waving brooms and swearing at the tops of their lungs along every major road in the city before 7am. I certainly wouldn't expect to see three people being paid heavens knows how much Sundaypay to do something as a: pointless, b: futile and c: petty as blasting the graffiti off the wall on the Potterow walkway. When they had their "plague of tagging" moment in the limelight a couple of weeks back I saw one of them painting solvent onto one of those cupboard things with wires in beside traffic lights which was fair enough as it wasn't decent artful graffii, merely a scrawled nonsensical name. It's different when there's a little art to it (even if it's still impossible to read) and some of the stuff down there is usually quite good.

I trundled back later to catch the aftermath and see the empty wall (although they've left the boards at the back of the Festival Theatre's car park alone) with its complement of annoying little stickers in irritating hey-look-we've-used-an-euphemism jobsworth-speak. Particularly irritating is the "Keep Edinburgh Clean" message considering that the workmen left more mess behind than there was when they started. They should just leave it and be thankful that it's confined to that little passageway, has barely spread to Bristo Square and hasn't affected Old College at all, nor the could-do-with-a-little-brightening-up Potterow Union/Verney health centre. Maybe the uni has asked to council to try and stamp it out in case someone takes offence at the blandness of the revised Crichton Street Car Park and gives it a little colour.
BAGH.

Anyway. Went to see a nice free preview of Molière in the morning at the Cameo. I know almost bugger-all about the subject but it was amusing enough despite the odd grammatical error in the subtitles. Some excellent horse-impersonation and one character is very nice and Zaphodic.