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Crafty Green Poet
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A blog on recycled crafts, poetry, creativity and environmental awareness.
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Forthcoming Events
I'm setting this up as a constantly updated post to highlight selected forthcoming events in and around Edinburgh. There will be a sidebar link to bring you here.TOMORROW! 5 December 2009 - The Wave - climate change march in Glasgow - find out more h...
Johnston Terrace Wildlife Garden
This is the last of the gardens we visited last weekend on the Bank of Reason Walk. Johnston Terrace Wildlife Garden is currently managed by the Scottish Wildlife Trust and is the smallest of their wildlife reserves. It manages to pack a lot into a ...
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icy pavements -the alsatian pausesbefore each step.previously published in Haiku Scotland 21...
Hopes, Dreams and lots of Trees
The Book Of Hopes And Dreams is a charity poetry anthology, featuring Simon Armitage, Margaret Atwood, Carol Anne Duffy, Alasdair Gray, Edwin Morgan and many others, including me!The Book Of Hopes And Dreams has been re-launched as an e-book and is a...
Engine Shed
On the Bank of Reason walk on Saturday we stopped off for a much needed lunch of hot soup and hot main courses (it was a very cold day!) at The Engine Shed. This is a wonderful vegetarian cafe and conference centre. It was established in 1989 as a tr...
Dunbar Close Walled Garden
Dunbar's Close Garden, looking toward Calton Hill We visited Dunbar's Close Garden, off Edinburgh's Canongate, yesterday as part of the Bank of Reason walk. This walled garden is laid out in a 17th-century design, with yew hedges, clipped hollies and...
