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A Public Enquiry – Donald Trump – Menie Links
The Scottish Government has finally announced its next move regarding the Trump plans to annihilate a SSSI sand dune system at Menie Links in Aberdeenshire - a public enquiry is to be held.This is good news because I for one want to know why any Aberdeenshire councillor thinks they have the right to approve plans that will mean the destruction of a rare sand dune system that is supposed to be protected by law. I'd like to see the full facts published, rather than the propaganda of a corporate ... read more
Windswept and Interesting
Rainbow over the ForthI have the beginnings of a cold coming on and I'm also pre-menstrual, so you might want to take a step back. However, I need to be congratulated because instead of sitting inside feeling miserable, I motivated myself to take advantage of the sunshine and get all breathless in Holyrood Park. Of course by the time I got myself organised and out the door (and forgot my flask of water and things I was going to post), the clouds had begun to congregate. Still, I was thankful ... read more
Romancing The Stone
Can you tell the difference between these two pictures?They are both pictures of the Bass Rock, an extinct volcanic plug, which rises from the Firth of Forth just off the coast of North Berwick. Regular viewers may recognise it :)But can you tell the difference between the pictures??Well the top one was taken on a beautiful day in December and the bottom one was taken today. The difference is that in the second one there are Gannets!!! Yay! We are proud to present the beginnings of this year's ... read more
Bee Aware
The Bumblebee Conservation Trust have launched a survey and they want YOU to help them.Beewatch 2008 seeks anyone with a pair of eyes to record bee sightings and email them to the trust. It would be helpful if you could identify the bees yourself, or include digital photos of any bees you are unsure about. Please include your postcode!Bumblebee conservation is extremely important as they pollinate much of our plant life - if bees continue to decline at the current rate we will be facing a huge ... read more
Frisky Fox Day
[caption id="attachment_532" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes) mating"][/caption] Life has been somewhat less colourful since the foxes raised their cubs and moved on last year. Although I know the foxes remain in the neighbourhood, they just haven't been using the gardens viewed from my window very often. The last few nights, however, have been punctuated with eerie barking and calls and I have been hoping what I was hearing was the sounds of a fox calling for ... read more
City Life
[caption id="attachment_446" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Arthur's Seat"][/caption]It never ceases to tickle me that I can look at this standing in the middle of a city :) and this week @ and I have been taking advantage of the unseasonal weather and wandering about in the wilds of Edinburgh....Our wee loch in the park looks great in the low slung sunshine (as long as you can ignore the joyful things that most local residents seem comfortable dumping... shopping trolleys, dog poo, ... read more
Coming Out Of The Dark
We saw some of the first snowdrops the other day and I thought they'd make a fitting picture for this blog since it has been a month since I posted.I didn't mean to lose momentum (again) but I got caught up in the mundane, well for me it's mundane, world of editing HTML templates, book-keeping and tax returns and more HTML templates.January is tax return time, and despite all my good work around being more organised in life - I still found myself compiling all my info at the last minute. I did ... read more
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