Edinburgh

Edinburgh is one of the most beautiful cities in the world. No wonder we visit the “Athens of the North” so often in our dreams.

Edinburgh at dusk by Brendan MacNeill

• Literary snogging (Rousse)
• Rousse goes running (Water of Leith cycle path)
• Remembrance and Shetland revision classes (Rousse) (Nicholson Street)
• Rousse’s Princes Street rescue (Princes Street)
• Rousse the jam tart robber
• Rousse, the National Library boy, and The Social Network (National Library of Scotland)
• Rousse’s new domestic arrangements (Corstophine, Angle Terrace)
• Rousse’s reunion (John Lewis)
• A trandem, tourists and a traffic warden (Rousse)
• The return of Rousse’s red Peugeot 205
• Shall I stay or shall I go now? (Rousse)
• A new livery and The Lancet (Rousse) (Corstorphine)
• Rousse misses Clive Anderson – just
• Don’t mess with my baby/babies (Rousse) (junction of Northumberland and Nelson Streets)
• Tweeting, blogging and all that comes between (Rousse) (Pollock Halls)
• A bendy bus trip to Diagon Alley but Harry Potter nowhere to be seen (Rousse) (Morningside Road, Bruntsfield and Craigleith)
• Student fees prospects worry even the poorest pupils (Rousse) (Leith Street)
• Rousse misses the sunrise and loses her shoes
• Rousse subject to blackmail threats (cycle path)
• Extortionate eatery and exhibitor costs (Rousse) (Leith Street)
• Rousse astounded by Edinburgh taxi fares, abducted colleagues and brown jelly fish (Scotsman Hotel)
• Matt LeBlanc promotes Episodes by signing autographs and decorating a cake at Chateau Impney (Rousse) (Stockbridge and Ferry Road)
• Rousse forgives an assailant, advises on Emmental, and secures a job (George Street, cycle paths)
• Rousse withholds confectionery and debates fun at work (bus routes)
• Christmas calendar mystery (junction of Castle Street and Queen Street)
• Time travel by train and a deadly secret unveiled (Rousse) (Leith)
• Rousse’s trip to Spain uncovers NHS zombie and Sir Alex Ferguson’s secret chateau (Edinburgh airport)
• A stolen suitcase and Champagne for singles (Rousse) (Stockbridge)
• iPad hidden feature revealed and pretty ponies perform (Rousse) (number 23 bus route, Ferry Road, Barnton)
• UK’s cheapest print cartridges found in… North Berwick? (Rousse) (John Lewis, number 26 bus route)
• Brutal BBC boxing match and a black-eyed avatar (Rousse) (York Place, Cathedral Lane, St James Centre, St Mary’s Cathedral, Broughton Street)
• Archbishop of Canterbury reigns over Wembley and David Cameron settles into Edinburgh pied-à-terre (Rousse)
• Rousse battles unconventional at a funeral, naked on the train, and with her man (London Street roundabout)
• Nigella Lawson versus Gordon Ramsey, and information retrieval with Winnie the Pooh (Rousse) (Edinburgh airport)
• Car chaos in central Edinburgh and mixed Morgans (Rousse) (Cockburn Street, the High Street)
• Royal Botanic bathing (Rousse) (Royal Botanic Gardens)
• Dissertation deadline dilly dally (Rousse)
• Rousse tickles an elephant, misses her sunglasses, and hangs on to her suitcase
• A suitor, a mugger, and a midget (Rousse) (Tesco, Bonnington Road)
• Ramona Marquez stars as Jordan in birthday biopic (Rousse) (Edinburgh Playhouse)
• The Glasgow School of Spelling, David Bowie, Andy Warhol, Limmy, and a retirement home for celebrities (Rousse)
• Performance anxieties (Rousse) (the Bridges)
• Searching for silver and scallops with a car crash in-between (Rousse) (Assembly Rooms, George Street, and cycle paths)
  

  The Scott Monument by Brendan MacNeill

• Simon Cowell, Cheryl Cole and Gillian McKeith disappoint (Rousse)
• Feather shift mini-dresses on trend for spring 2011 (Rousse) (Dundas Street)
• Making money on the buses (Rousse) (York Place)
• A cycling trip and late admiration (Rousse)
• Civil attack at site of Glencoe massacre (Rousse)
• Access to Edinburgh airport, cinema style (Rousse) (Edinburgh airport)
• Kevin McCloud advises Rousse on housing law
• From Joan Armatrading discussions in Windermere to abandoned babies (Rousse)
• Exciting new printing facility in central Edinburgh and the death of Cousin Bunny (Rousse) (North Bridge, Scotsman Hotel)
• Noël Coward’s sick sense of humour and fridges full of carcasses (Rousse) (Royal Terrace)
• Selling tickets at the Fringe and shooting woodcock in the Borders (Rousse) (Pleasance Yard)
• A campus love affair rudely interrupted, and a seaside crime (Rousse) (Bruntsfield)
• Elizabeth Taylor’s multiple husbands not unique (Rousse) (North Bridge, Leith Street)
• From the Caribbean to Tiverton by foot in party dresses (Rousse)
• Tiffany Blue box “engagement” mystery (Rousse) (Haymarket railway station)
• Fashion must-haves: white shorts, a purple cape and a supply of knickers, plus Elton John (Rousse)
• Rousse makes her choice from the Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppets, Ruby Wax, and Clive Anderson (Bruntsfield)
• Dead grandmother finances tricky train travel (Rousse) (Waverley railway station)
• Crime by letters and Vera Wang (Rousse) (Corstorphine)
• Rousse sorts out shorts and running routes (Inverleith Park)
• Rousse’s shoe crisis
• Rousse roller-blades, writes proposals, and collects cast-offs (Old Town)
• Peppa Pig, toast, and extreme sports in the Hebrides
• Jonathan Ross’ theatre date and a threat of war in Edinburgh (Rousse) (Omni Centre, London Road)
• Postcards to Prince William, a rat in the office, and in-flight washing facilities (Rousse)
• Rousse runs and battles nepotism at the BBC (Scottish Parliament)
• The Apprentice’s Natasha Scribbins vainly attempts to save Rousse from expenses claim hell
• Paul the cobra and the early history of punk
• Victoria Beckham brightens up Rousse’s conference woes (Sheraton Hotel)
• Harry Potter almost messes up Rousse’s travel plans to King’s Cross
• The assassin’s wife (Rousse) (Leith)
• JK Rowling’s cot death charity competition and the Scottish slave trade (Rousse) (Duddingston, Leith)
• Career highs and fashion lows (Rousse) (Stockbridge)
• Curries by barcode and a couple of moves (Rousse) (Merchiston, Morningside Raod)
• Andy Parsons turns to kids’ comedy at the Edinburgh Fringe (Rousse) (Elm Row, Leith Walk, Virgin Active gym at the Omni Centre)
• New Diana revelations, courtesy of Ian Hislop (Rousse) (Claremont Hotel)
• Number 26 bus to the rescue (number 26 bus route)
• Compensation for lost luggage (Rousse) (National Library of Scotland)
• Bupa Great Edinburgh Run 2011 organisers surprise athletes with goody bag contents (Rousse) (2011 Edinburgh 10k course)
• Oswald Danes plies an evil trade in Edinburgh (Rousse) (Infirmary Street, South Bridge, Chambers Street)
• Single women looking for men, and a new line in hot tubs (Rousse)
  

  View from the Caledonian Hotel, Edinburgh

• Home improvement – with sheep (Rousse) (a New Town basement flat)
• Secret military airbase at Edinburgh airport harbours unexpected relations (Rousse)
• A day out with Ian Rankin (Rousse) (Edinburgh International Convention Centre, Usher Hall)
• Illegal clown disrupts travel plans (Rousse)
• Walking in Glencoe bereft of map and walking boots, but with Take That (Rousse)
• A labrador, a poodle, and a Yorkshire terrier (Rousse) (Bruntsfield)
• Talents of a child prodigy “very advanced for his age” rub off on Rousse (Virgin Active gym, Omni Centre)
• Gangsta rap death threat (Rousse) (Leith Walk)
• The book (section) thief (Rousse) (Hanover Street)
• Alice in Wonderland attraction (Rousse) (London Road)
• Good turns in Paris and Edinburgh (Rousse)
• Suicide bombers target ocean liner university campus in Leith – with bonus baby monkey (Rousse) (Leith docks)
• Become a personal trainer – but not on this course (Rousse) (Arthur’s Seat)
• Pensioners unmoved as earthquake strikes Sussex (Rousse)
• Elton John and the transexual mother-of-the-bride (Rousse) (Murrayfield Stadium)
• Man falls to death from medieval tower – “lost” handbag takes the blame (Rousse) (Virgin Active gym, Omni Centre; Corstorphine; St Johns Road; Murrayfield)
• Rousse’s nocturnal accident (Holyrood Park)
• The world’s most expensive lump of yeast (Rousse) (Dalry Road; Leith; Edinburgh airport)
• Rousse bakes mini lemon meringue pies while her husband holds court in the bath
• Toothbrushes and telephone tutorials (Rousse)
• Working at home with red wine, Indians, a blind man, and hairy legs (Rousse)
• Time-travelling Rupert Grint (as Ron Weasley) greets Rousse in the Kingdom of Fife
• Selling hosiery with a difference (Rousse)
• Gay marriage shocker eclipsed by enemy bomb attack on UK airports (Rousse) (Edinburgh airport)
• Giving up gossip for Lent: Rousse debates the Archers rules (Drummond Place)
• To Torquay by tram (Rousse)
• A cat-assisted attempt to avoid divorce (Rousse) (Annandale Street, East Claremont Street, Claremont Crescent)
• REF submission blunder paves path to BBC2 science career (Rousse)
• Smart but stupid (Belle)
• Bonding with Radcliffe and Maconie over the Farmer’s Boys and the BBC (Rousse)
• Green teddy bears seek release from Edinburgh airport (Rousse) (Edinburgh airport)
• Dreamaticus cited in medical negligence claim (Rousse)
• A terrifying journey to Leith (Rousse) (Leith)
• A deeply regretted relocation (Rousse)
• Unwelcome distraction at the British Library (Rousse)
• JK Rowling’s new book (Rousse)
• George Clooney charms Edinburgh (Rousse)
• Stocking-masked criminal and canine sidekick despatched into the night (Rousse)
• A failed kidnap and household safety advice from a Newcastle United fan (Rousse) (Leith Walk, Princes Street, the Mound)
• Queen meets her great-great grandmother in holographic form (Rousse) (St Andrew Square)
• Dress alteration with a paperclip (Rousse) (George Street)
• New canoe-carrying Dr Who takes to the Tardis (Rousse) (Corstorphine branch of the British Library)
• Disney millionnaire discovers rare Morrissey album in Stockton-on-Tees (Rousse) (Usher Hall)
• The naughty teenager’s tattoo (Rousse) (Cockburn Street)
• Everton fan survives road traffic accident only to be mugged by drug addict (Rousse) (Meadows)
• Edinburgh house moves (Rousse) (Bruntsfield Links, and Marchmont)
• Expert programmer devises new research infrastructure (Rousse) (Middle Meadow Walk)
• Dress designer and academic set off on secret mission by EasyJet (Rousse) (Fort Kinnaird retail centre)
• David Beckham silenced in black and white (Rousse) (Church Hill Theatre)
• Hairy Star Wars sidekick Chewbacca comes to take Rousse home (Meadows
• Rousse forgets to dress (Portbello)
• A Jack Vettriano original (Rousse) (Bruntsfield – junction of Morningside Road and Merchiston Place)
• Wedding preparations and wolves (Rousse) (Royal Botanic Gardens)
• Rousse’s rubbish reunion (Leith)
• The flying bride (Rousse) (south Morningside)
• A tempting job prospect (Rousse) (Colinton Road)
• A five-person tandem, fire engines, and the fuel shortage (Rousse) (Broughton Street, John Lewis, Carlton Road, Waverley Station)
• Tenement opera at the Leith Festival (Rousse) (East Claremont Street)
• Promises, promises (Rousse) (High Street, Cockburn Street)
• Rousse hunts for food after a cold night in the research council car (Annandale Street, Leith Walk, Edinburgh Castle)
• National Library of Scotland raids English universities for new staff (Rousse) (National Library of Scotland)
• Melvyn Bragg’s editor, boasts about The Sound of Music, and other distractions keep Rousse away from class (the Tron)
• The secret London wedding venue (Rousse)
• Hibs-Hearts derby ticket hunt (Rousse) (Hibernian ground, Easter Road and Portobello beach)
• Rousse’s new job (Heriot-Watt University)
• Graduations traditions in Edinburgh declared OTT (Rousse) (University of Edinburgh)
• Exam board bliss (Rousse)
• Daring Danish rescue attempt ends with death (Rousse) (Leith Walk, Edinburgh Central Youth Hostel, McDonald Road, Pilgrig Street)
• Poisonous gas leak at Edinburgh Waverley (Rousse) (Inverleith Row, Waverley Station)
• An award-winning toilet break (Rousse) (University of Edinburgh)
• George Michael’s eyes (Rousse) (west end)
• Rousse sees off a rival
• Award-winning dress designer’s garment giveaway and new restaurant business venture (Rousse) (Scottish Business Information Service, National Library of Scotland)
• Here we go round the mulberry bush – with an image problem to address (Rousse)
• A tandem upgrade and trying twins (Rousse) (Dundas Street)
• Queen Victoria: stony history tutor (Rousse) (Princes Street)
• From Merchiston to Sighthill with a fountain pen (Rousse) (Merchiston and Sighthill)
• Secret double life of world-famous magician (Rousse)
• Kate shops at Topshop (Rousse) (Princes Street, Balmoral Hotel, Princes Mall)
• Changes in the marine environment to suit a red-haired mermaid (Rousse)
• Burnt breakfast and a wet trip to Edinburgh Zoo (Rousse) (Edinburgh Zoo)
• Teenaged tutors at the University of Oxford (Rousse)
• Rousse investigates discount rail fares and a career option on the east coast line
• Dangerous driver on the loose in Edinburgh’s New Town (Rousse) (Stockbridge, Howe Street)
• Travel by vegetable rack (Rousse) (Broughton Street)
• David Mitchell’s photography one-upmanship lands university professor in trouble (Rousse)
• An orphan’s treat cut short (Rousse) (Calton Hill, Waverley Court)
• An over-ambitious walk (Rousse)
• Cycling, academics, poor publishing standards, diet Coke, a farewell disco, and stiletto heels (Rousse) (Corstorphine)
• Matt Smith speaks at Aberdeen information science conference (Rousse) (Leith)
• New business model for raising charitable funds rakes in thousands (Rousse) (Newington)
• Snow, cyclists, and a six stone friend (Rousse) (East Claremont Street, Leith Walk)
• BBC employee discovers drug den in Edinburgh’s Stockbridge (Rousse) (Stockbridge, Dundas Street)
• Edinburgh’s most dangerous driver (Rousse) (Abbey Hill)
• Natural sanitary products in store at Gayfield Square (Rousse) (Gayfield Square, Leith Walk)
• Parrot spotted in New Town garden (Rousse) (New Town)
• Old university perks (Rousse) (University of Edinburgh)
• Inadequate shopping signage (Rousse) (Leith)
• From Leith to Loughborough by boat (Rousse) (Leith)
• Luxury yellow bathroom is no substitute for missing wife (Rousse)
• New CalMac service covers land and sea (Rousse) (Leith Walk)
• The boy with the dragon tattoo (Rousse) (University of Edinburgh)
• Parking problems in Leith (Rousse) (Leith)
• News for the Broughton Spurtle (Rousse) (Melgund Terrace)
• Friday night in the caravan (Rousse) (Quartermile)
• 1970s disco revives old college campus (Rousse) (Queen Margaret University’s old Corstorphine campus)
• Madonna advises against A list celebrity friendships (Rousse) (Sighthill)
• Desperate nuns resort to kidnap to drive up convent recruitment figures (Corstorphine)
• Land Rover backs into New Town cellar (Rousse)
• Edinburgh International Festival Virgin Money Fireworks Concert lends magic to the city (Rousse) (the castle; Claremont Crescent)
• Badger cull targets head north of the border to attack household pets (Rousse)
• Andrew Lawrence, the Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre, a stranded bride, and the ruler of the universe (Rousse)
• Discussing Before I go to sleep is more tempting than running (Rousse) (Arthur’s Seat)
• Referendum aggression on the Edinburgh tram, and a dead grandmother (Rousse)
• An encounter with the monochrome set (Rousse) (Leith Walk)
• Cool accommodation in Edinburgh (Rousse)
• How to write a novel: Rousse explains her strategy to imposter Dave (Centotre, George Street)
• A puffin child prodigy (Rousse) (Virgin Active gym, Omni Centre)
• A horsewoman turned financier and an injured charity boss (Rousse) (Virgin Active gym, Omni Centre)
• National Library of Scotland harbours reptile colony (Rousse) (National Library of Scotland)
• British Airways terminal 5 offers new passenger services (Rousse)
• Harry Potter tattoos: the only clue to “Pedro’s” past (Rousse) (George Heriot’s School)
• Edinburgh Airport attractions (Rousse) (Edinburgh airport)
• John Fisher, his mistress, football, and cake (Rousse) (London Road and Tynecastle)
• A friendship renewed (Rousse) (Bonnington Road)
• Police raid Edinburgh basement cocaine factory (Rousse)
• A post-REF ghost train ride around Edinburgh (Rousse) (Queen Margaret University Corstorphine campus)
• Virgin TV disappointment (Rousse) (Newhaven, Firth of Forth)
• Katie Price returns to work as earnings drop (Rousse) (Edinburgh Royal Infirmary)
• The almost bigamist bride (Rousse) (Virgin Active gym, Omni Centre; Queen Street)
• Couple helpless as Royal Bank of Scotland head office goes up in flames (Rousse) (Waverley Station; George Street; St Andrew Square; Queen’s Hall)
• Edinburgh’s worst driver (Rousse) (Barnton junction)
• Animal magic in the Edinburgh New Town (Rousse) (New Town)
• Edinburgh’s worst driver causes yet another accident (Rousse) (Junction of Lothian Road and Princes Street)
• Gym living inconveniences (Rousse) (Virgin Active gym at the Omni Centre; Leith)
• Unanticipated corrosion of structural steelwork (Rousse) (Queen Margaret University)
• Flat hunting in Edinburgh (Rousse) (Colinton Road)
• Lothian buses disregards data protection (Rousse)
• Black and ginger seals frolic in the Union Canal (Rousse)
• A double performance by the Chinese acrobats (Rousse) (Festival Theatre)
• A blue-skinned lady (Rousse) (The Meadows; Edinburgh College of Art)
• A charmed life working for Gary Lineker and sleeping with Hugh Grant (Rousse) (University of Edinburgh students’ union)
• Electricity theft in Edinburgh (Rousse) (Annandale Street)
• A claustrophobic attempt to decipher a grass message (Rousse) (Claremont Crescent; East Claremont Street)
• Ian Rankin’s secret muse (Rousse) (Arthur’s Seat, Holyrood Park)
• Black cab illegally parked in Leith: shoeless couple sought (Rousse)
• The chaos of rapid expansion in UK higher education (Rousse) (Queen Margaret University)
• A monochrome moon rise, a self-driving car, drunken students, a horse, frozen waves, and a train ride to Edinburgh from South Queensferry (Rousse) (Waverley Bridge)
• Rousse’s one night stand (Craiglockhart)
• Drugs and death at Tesco (Rousse) (Tesco, Broughton Road)
• How to avoid predatory women (Rousse) (Waverley Station)
• Tickled by a ghost at a high school reunion (Rousse) (Princes Street)
• Packing for Penzance (Rousse)
• A crocodile in Edinburgh (Rousse) (Princes Street, St Andrew Square, George Street)
• Pilgrims leave Edinburgh as the Old Town goes up in flames (Rousse)
• When “bed time” at 50th birthday celebrations means sleeping in the bath (Rousse)
• A bouncy cousin and a paper husband (Rousse) (Royal Society of Edinburgh, George Street)
• Standing stones stand-off: Exmoor versus Edinburgh (Rousse) (Bruntsfield Links, Morningside Road)
• Stegosuarus and ghost live side-by-side in Edinburgh basement (Rousse)
• Scottish surveillance spooks out in force in Leith (Rousse) (Leith)
• Bomb drops over Edinburgh New Town (Rousse) (Drummond Place; London Street)
• Drawbacks of glass house living in Edinburgh (Rousse) (Omni Centre, Valvona and Crolla)
• Travelling in style in the Scottish borders: by magic carpet (Rousse)
• Tom Skelton’s one man show, a dress from Woolworths, Dave Eggers, and icing penguins (Rousse) (Bruntsfield)
• An illogical trip to Birmingham (Rousse) (Broughton Street)
• Davina McCall and a husband hunt (Rousse) (St Mary’s Cathedral, St James Shopping Centre, Broughton Street)
• How to get your life back on track (Rousse) (George Street, Contini’s restaurant)
• An audience with James Herriot (Rousse) (Sighthill)
• From a cliff top penthouse to a pokey Glasgow bedsit (Rousse)
• Murderer serves lunch to transsexual surprise guest feet away from victim’s remains in biscuit tin (Rousse) (Granton)
• Direct flights from Edinburgh to Boston (Rousse)
• Unwanted romantic advances, a “lost” suitcase, and death at the fun run (Rousse)
• A bathroom for every bedroom in Edinburgh’s Victoria Street accommodation (Rousse) (Victoria Street)
• More parking misery in Edinburgh (Rousse)
• Papier-mâché craft and careers advice on the Morningside Road (Rousse) (Morningside Road)
• Classroom goes missing behind antique-crammed house (Rousse) (Corstorphine)
• A quest for counterfeit coins (Rousse) (Canonmills, York Place)
• A night in the VIP suite at China White (Rousse) (University of Edinburgh)
• To Australia by sea with an unlimited baggage allowance (Rousse) (Saughton House; Corstorphin
• Morningside’s mathematics expert (Rousse) (Morningside)
• A 4-person tandem ride to the Lammermuir Hills (Portobello, Leith, Bonnington Road, the Lammermuir Hills)
• Alps plane crash victim regrets flight choice (Rousse) (National Library of Scotland; Edinburgh Airport)
• Edinburgh marathon star grants interview, ruins parquet flooring, and pets a pig (Rousse)
• A tale of arson and murder (Rousse) (Northumberland Street, Ferry Road)
• An Edinburgh colony house visit (Rousse) (Easter Road)
• Project crisis ‘cured’ with spray-on white hair and wedding invitations (Rousse) (Queen Margaret University)
• A useless sabbatical, a stray student, and a delicious brand of cell phone (Rousse) (Princes Street)
• When being stuck in a lift means that you are trapped in a dream (Rousse) (University of Edinburgh)
• A new career in catering (Rousse) (George Watson’s College)
• Flirting over a bag of Lochinver pies, cheese and ham rolls – and WhatsApp (Rousse) (Craiglockhart, the Pleasance)
• Alan Sugar’s son sews (Rousse) (Fabric Focus, East Claremont Street)
• From drinks in Ambridge with the Aldridge to an open air party on Princes Street (Rousse)
• A second PhD (Rousse) (Queen Margaret University)
• An insider’s view of the Edinburgh Fringe (Rousse)
• Aidan Turner signs autographs at the Edinburgh Fringe (Rousse)
• From student accommodation in Sheffield to unwelcome attention in the garden (Rousse)
• Insensitive weekend drug dealers (Rousse) (Princes Street)
• White rabbit moves in with deer (Rousse)
• Thanksgiving in Portobello (Rousse) (Portobello)
• Wedding gatecrash (Rousse) (Arthur’s Seat)
• Competing priorities (Rousse) (Arthur’s Seat)
• Airport laptop theft (Rousse) (Edinburgh airport)
• Edinburgh Player-Slayer peril (Rousse) (Edinburgh Napier University Craiglockhart and Merchiston campuses)
• Deadly dressmaker on the loose (Rousse) (Leith cycle paths)
• Live ‘badgers’ for sale in Edinburgh (Rousse) (west end)
• Cheapest fares from Edinburgh to Korea via London Heathrow (Rousse) (Leith)
• A top quality charity shop in Leith (Rousse) (Leith cycle path)
• Distracted by a dishwasher, chicken liver pâté, and After Eight mints (Rousse) (Edinburgh Waverley station)
• From Greek massacre to rioting on the streets of Edinburgh (Rousse) (Holyrood, law courts)
• Edinburgh bike rage (Rousse) (Haymarket Station)
• Sourcing a stash of hard-to-buy vintage anti-feminist placards (Rousse) (Broughton Street)
• An unwelcome Christian (Rousse) (Mansfield Church)
• An iPhone snapped in two (Rousse) (Meadows, Edinburgh-Glasgow commuter train)
• A sudden death with vegetables (Rousse) (Bruntsfield links)
• Birthday beanie hats (Rousse) (Annandale Street)
• Locked in the loo at Summerhall (Rousse) (Summerhall)
• A boat trip cut short (Rousse) (Firth of Forth; Corstorphine Hill)
• Princess Anne’s trip to Jenners (Rousse) (Jenners, Princes Street)
• Guests who overstay their welcome (Rousse) (Leith)
• Horse-drawn carriage hen party in the Pentlands (Rousse) (Pentland Hills)
• An embarrassing moment in the National Library of Scotland and a tram death (Rousse)
• Chain mail fashion and the latest currency trend (Rousse) (Broughton Street, Omni Centre)
• Spaceship flies over Edinburgh and pensioners enjoy the Paris nightwear walk Pierrot-style (Rousse) (Pleasance, University of Edinburgh)
• The ugly pumpkin-headed baby (Rousse)
• Making up for a deep offence (Rousse) (Dundas Street)
• Call for Sunday opening at the National Library of Scotland (Rousse)
• Intern adventures include Lord of the Rings team-building exercise on horseback #LOTR (Drummond High School)
• Call for Sunday opening at the National Library of Scotland (Rousse) (National Library of Scotland)
• Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen at the National Library of Scotland (Rousse) (National Library of Scotland)
• A slow ride to France (Rousse)
• Squeeze gig a hit at the Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh (Rousse) (Queen’s Hall)
• Travelling by minibus for tea with the Queen at Holyrood Palace (Rousse) (North Bridge, Waterloo Place, Holyrood Park, Holyrood Palace)
• Losing weight and losing your mind (Rousse) (Leith)
• A disgraceful dip in the pool (Rousse)
• Phil Cunningham plays Edinburgh – to an audience of three (Rousse)
• Surprises in the snow (Rousse) (Princes Street)
• Edinburgh academic workload woes (Rousse) (LIDL, Logie Green Road)
• Woman bludgeons man to death in Holyrood Park (Rousse) (Holyrood Park)
• Katie Price is a patchwork of plastic surgery (Rousse)
• The long route from Glasgow to Edinburgh (Rousse)
• Dull conversation with the disorganised (Rousse) (Bruntsfield Place; High Street)
• A lost watch in Edinburgh’s Stockbridge (Rousse) (Raeburn Place and the Shelter shop, Stockbridge)
• A diamond thief’s regrets (Rousse) (St James Hotel)
• Conference barbed wire and a baby (Rousse) (Queen Street)
• Bristol house building and Edinburgh skyscrapers (Rousse) (Old Town)
• Cult betting on the Eurovision song contest (Rousse) (Granton)
• Nicola Sturgeon to introduce friend tax (Rousse) (West End)
• Signs of an affair (Rousse) (George Street)
• Dolly Parton and the unfaithful husband (Rousse) (Cowgate)
• Hospital portering as a career for the elderly (Rousse)
• Middle-aged errant husband enjoys ‘space’ in the arms of a 21 year old student (Rousse) (Bruntsfield)
• A new ‘seaside university’ (Rousse) (Portobello)