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Bad Neighbours

Who’d want a load of frat brothers moving in next door? No one, of course, but it is a great excuse to blow a few million and entertain the masses. The movie is a tad trashy and tedious, so gets pretty lacklustre reviews, presumably as its so full of frat humour, which is only funny if you are one. Though I am sure one or more of the stars will move on to greater things. ¹

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Actually many a University Town has had whole districts ruined by students. Bristol, Brighton, Exeter, Leeds come to mind, so this is a really serious issue. ↵

Satellite Conservation Area

Satellites in Conservation Areas are bad, and on listed buildings they are ruinous. Good luck to the sales agent trying to maximise their fee.

East Linton: 1 (a chimney installation only visible from certain angles)

Tyninghame Village: 4 (these are actually pretty innocuous, but look illegal all the same)

Dunbar: too many to count

Satellites in Conservation Areas are bad, and on listed buildings they are ruinous. Good luck to the sales agent trying to maximise their fee.

Bad gulls or bad human behaviour

No one seems to love herring gulls, not least the Prime Minister who felt compelled the other day to declare yet another pointless war with an enemy that we probably had a significant hand in creating. The RSPB argues the contrary that the population has halved and down to 378,000 pairs, which makes our wee colony of a few hundred seem a tad insignificant.

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Masonic Lodge Dunbar – Lost and Found

A mid 19th century. 2-storey, symmetrical 3-bay building with extension to the side sounds very much like a workaday building of the period, especially on Dunbar High Street, chokka with old buildings in various states of decay on the one hand and unsympathetic modernisations and bizarre additions on the other. But take a look inside this one and you’ll be forgiven for thinking that the C listing (albeit in a building “group category B”) is mistakenly undersold.