Tag Archives: Edinburgh

Beautiful hoodies

Posted on May 4, 2012 by

For my Artist’s Date today I went to see the stunning hoodie murals in Edinburgh (proper name: Our Nation’s Sons) by Joe Caslin.  I’d been keeping an eye out for them, but I don’t generally have a reason to go … Continue reading →

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Kid (and big kid) fun at the science festival

Posted on April 18, 2012 by

A more succinct version of this is on the Clicket blog.  This is my last post from the Science Festival!  I’ve had a fantastic time. All through the science festival, I’ve been seeing tweets about the fun kid stuff at … Continue reading →

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Science Tuesday (with some incidental Shakespeare)

Posted on April 4, 2012 by

Having had a wee day off on Monday (real life getting in the way), it was back to the science festival on Tuesday. I had finally met Juliet Wilson (CraftyGreenPoet) on Saturday (we’d corresponded on our blogs and twitter for … Continue reading →

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My friend the robot

Posted on April 4, 2012 by

So, robot companions.  Not something I’d thought about a whole lot before I went to Ruth Aylett‘s talk on Sunday.  But a tremendously interesting concept. Various stories about robots that will interact with us come up in the media now … Continue reading →

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The Gallery: Extreme Close-Up

Posted on March 28, 2012 by

The topic on The Gallery this week is to take an extreme close-up.  For once I actually remembered the topic in advance and deliberately took some pictures!  This rather scary chap is the mostly-buried Antony Gormley figure outside the Scottish … Continue reading →

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Fantastic artist’s date: Anna Barriball

Posted on March 16, 2012 by

Those of you who are Artist’s Way followers may have realised recently that I haven’t been talking much about Artist’s Way-related things on the blog recently. That’s because I rather fell off the wagon. My intention to do Walking in … Continue reading →

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Why did I never know about Elsie Inglis?

Posted on March 8, 2012 by

Apologies for the intermittent posting over the last couple of weeks, real life is definitely getting in the way! I’ve been meaning to write about the International Women’s Day event that I was at on Monday, so given that today … Continue reading →

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EnLIGHTen

Posted on March 3, 2012 by

Anyone off into Edinburgh tonight? If so, you need to check out EnLIGHTen! Edinburgh City of Literature has projected some quotations onto building around town. We were at the Secret Society last night (it was fab – there were hedgehogs) … Continue reading →

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Poetry at Blackwell’s

Posted on March 2, 2012 by

At the writing group I go to, we’re encouraged to bring in details of ‘writery’ events in Edinburgh and one that turned up was a flyer for a fab poetry reading in Blackwell’s last night. It was a great line-up, … Continue reading →

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Water of Leith Geowalk

Posted on February 16, 2012 by

I just realised that I never really posted anything much about the Geowalk I went on a couple of weekends ago on the Water of Leith.  I forgot to take my camera, so only took a couple of pictures.  It’s … Continue reading →

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