Crafty Green Poet

Patient Property  is a collection of haiku and tanka about Kirsten Cliff Elliot’s journey through leukaemia. These poems cover all aspects o...

 I was very pleased to find these Robin's Pincushion galls on a wild rose bush today.  These strange looking growths are galls, caused b...

 A few posts back, I shared some of the postcards I've been making to share through Postcrossing . Here are some more, all made using c...

  Yesterday we had a lovely walk round Edinburgh's Saughton Park which lies alongside the Water of Leith. The bridge over the river at ...

   A few weeks ago I attended the launch of Angus MacMillan's memoir 'Between the Echoes' which was held at the Scottish Storyte...

We had a lovely day at Musselburgh yesterday. It's always a great place to see birds and at this time of year, a great place to see butt...

  The Big Butterfly Count has been running for many years now. The idea is to go outside and count butterflies for fifteen minutes! This yea...