circus lane

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  Working-Mum, 10 September 2010:

  An accurate review of a handsome mews recently voted by architect's as, "The Most Beautiful Street in Edinburgh".

  It houses a few "local" heroes: one of Scotland's top international painters lives there which is why all the doors and walls are the correct conservation colours, and the head of the Jazz Festival too, among other notables. The architecture is a fine mixture of the genuinely Georgian, the contemporary and the plain conventional. I love the gas lamps. You expect a handsome cab and horse to pass by any minute - a time warp. I enjoy walking through there with the kids whenever I can, admiring the shrubs and flowers.

  The blossoming of the lane, if that's the right phrase, belongs to a filmmaker (I think) who pours his heart and soul and money into making the place unique. (So much so, other residents living in mews lanes in the city keep asking the council to provide the same for them as if it was all created overnight.) He has totally transformed it from the crappy backwater it used to be in the late Nineties to a pocket residential heaven, and I hear he still hasn't completed his vision. Never met the guy but the residents must pray he doesn't move home anytime soon.

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  Matcheff, 10 September 2010:

  oh wow really! the most beautiful street thats amazing but i can see how it would be true.. thats really interesting I never realised that street had such an interesting story behind the way it all looks!

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  Mikeyman, 11 September 2012:

  From reading Working Mum’s reviews its most likely to me that s(he) is the filmmaker/writer who coincidentally is married to the “top international Painter”.

  Its annoying when reviews are co-opted like this, you shouldn’t be able to review your own place.

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  Working-Mum, 11 September 2012:

  Do you think so, Mickeyman?

  Can’t see why the person(s) in question should bother when it’s plain for all to see. And anyway, the compliment you are so eager to undermine has already been made by Matcheff, and indeed many others in Stockbridge who are pleased to see some improvements in their area.
  I don’t use the lane these days because the traffic got worse with the weather, and trying to control children in the face of oncoming cars too difficult. That said, you must be envious of the lane to post what amounts to innuendo and slur, and reckless too, to use your portrait as an avatar.

  The rebuke, “get a life,” comes to mind.

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  Mikeyman, 11 September 2012:

  I ve changed it to a picture of a dog now if that makes you happy.

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