Crafty Green Poet

Last night was the first meeting of the group that will eventually become the official Friends of Midmar Paddock, celebrating this lovely ar...

Last night's meeting to save Midmar Paddock was so full that we had to move from the Morningside Parish church hall into the church itse...

A lovely late autumn day today! We started at the exhibition for the proposed housing development on Cammo Fields held at Cramond Kirk, wher...

Every year, at about this time, we take a trip to Cammo Country Park to view the snowdrops in the walled garden. The garden is full ...

Roads are essential to connect communities and enable us to travel from place to place. However they need to be sited sensitively to avoid d...

Hermitage Golf Course is a golf course with a difference. Run by Autism Ventures Scotland (part of Autism Initiatives ) it offers training ...

#ShowtheLove is a Campaign to make Valentine's Day green and to share your love of nature and other things that are threatened by clima...

We've just returned from a few days visiting my parents near Salford, Manchester. We had a lovely few days, but one of the negatives w...

 This green field is now likely to become housing..... It is a sad day when Edinburgh City Council allows developers to put in a plannin...

Imagine if these fields where skylarks sing and linnets and tree sparrows forage are replaced with housing, with streets being called Sky...

We walked round Cammo Estate today, it was very damp, muddy underfoot and distinctly cold! Lots of interesting things to see though, incl...

When we visited my parents at the weekend, we went up to the local shopping centre. This has changed drastically since I was a child. Severa...

Crafty Green Boyfriend and I (and his Mum and his brother) went to the meeting last Thursday to oppose the building of houses on this ara...

I blogged recently about the proposed housing development for Cammo Fields and the public meeting that's happening on Thursday . I said ...

I wrote recently about the proposals to build housing on arable fields near C ammo Estate . Today I went along to the exhibition about the ...

I was very saddened to find out that City of Edinburgh Council is intending to designate some of the farm fields near Cammo Estate into deve...