This just appeared....

...in the window of Robert Louis Stevenson’s house. It’s brilliant.

“Robert Louis Stevenson’s childhood home has had a brass plaque
- on the railing for as long as I can remember.

- I can remember a long way back.

- But Robert wasn’t the only famous novelist in the family.
- His cousin Dorothy was a bestseller too.
- She shifted 4 million copies of her books in the UK alone.
- And another 3 million in the United States.
- And when did she get a plaque on her family home?
- Recognising her success?

- Not until 2016.

- I wish Muriel Spark was here tonight.
- She had the breathtaking cunning to wipe out anyone who didn’t appreciate her work.
- ‘Lucrezia Borgia in trousers’ she once described herself.
- But even that ruthlessness and lack of sentimentality failed to earn her a monument
- in her native city.
- But she deserved more.
- She deserves to dominate a bit of the skyline too.

- Did you know that I’m Edinburgh there are more statues of
- dogs than there are of women?

- Time we changed that too.
- And time we saw off a few more critics.”