Photos from the woodlands of Drumlanrig Castle feature in today's blogpost craftygreenpoet.blogspot.com/2025/09/wood...

For Recycle Week, this week's post on my Crafty Green Poet Substack looks at house clearances and what to do with all the stuff craftygreenpoet.substack.com/p/one-year-o...

Photos from our walk at Parton on the Galloway Red Kite trail are now on my blog. As well as a few Red Kites, we saw over 50 Red Admiral Butterflies! craftygreenpoet.blogspot.com/2025/09/gall...

Why did the BBC broadcast Nigel Farage uninterrupted for 56 minutes this morning? Nobody wants this, he has 4 seats, does any other party gets this coverage? The biased people at the BBC putting Nigel Farage on day after day need to be removed.

Photos from our recent visit to Caerlaverock in Dumfries and Galloway now on my blog craftygreenpoet.blogspot.com/2025/09/caer...

One of the places we visited while in Dumfries & Galloway was Ellisland Farm, once home to Robert Burns! I've posted some photos in my blog craftygreenpoet.blogspot.com/2025/09/elli...

It's too late for the discount, but well worth buying the book!

I loved Literary Gardens by Sandra Lawrence, illustrated by Lucille Clerc and my review automatically published on my blog while I was on holiday. You can read it here: craftygreenpoet.blogspot.com/2025/09/lite...

My latest Substack post about rivers published automatically while we were on holiday, you can read it here: craftygreenpoet.substack.com/p/watching-r...

This is great! Meas Mor (Big Respect) is a Scottish Gaelic / Irish rap collaboration between Tinderbox Collective; Bun-sgoil Taobh na Pàirce (Parkside Primary School, Edinburgh), a Gaelic-medium primary school & Irish rappers The Kabin Crew www.youtube.com/watch?v=whwQ...

1/2 Edinburgh Printmakers has two excellent exhibitions on at the moment. Aqsa Arif's Raindrops of Rani is on the second floor edinburghprintmakers.co.uk/viewing-room...

Here's an inspiring film from @theguardian.com about how optimism, determination and experimentation are helping the Saltmarsh Sparrow in Rhode Island. 'Between Moon Tides' www.theguardian.com/global/ng-in...

My SF flash fiction Alien Watch has been published on 365 Tomorrows. 365tomorrows.com/2025/09/10/a...

My latest Substack post focuses on Organic September craftygreenpoet.substack.com/p/organic-se...

Happy to have a tanka in the latest issue of Quail Eggs, thanks to editor Alison Williams (@tadpole99.bluesky.social) quaileggstanka.blogspot.com/p/issue-2-se...

Good, but not great, as last year was simply dire. Many long term trends are downwards. Still, a few more good years would change the picture. Definitely many more butterflies (indivs and species) in my garden this year. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

@imogenforster.bsky.social Here are some lovely autumnal moths for you!

This is infuriating. What is the point of a Marine Protected Area if trawlers are allowed to keep ploughing it? Yet again, the government has succumbed to commercial lobbying. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Informed climate optimism? I review Ani Dasgupta's The New Global Possible craftygreenpoet.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-...

I love this apple art! Though I don't think we'll be trying this with my mother in law's apples.... www.atlasobscura.com/articles/jap...

🚨 The EU is trying to quietly weaken nature laws during summer break. We have 10 days to stop this. Don't let them destroy our forests, rivers & wildlife in silence. #HandsOffNature www.wwf.eu/campaigns/it...

We also met this handsome male Pleasant yesterday near Duddingston Loch, Edinburgh

Photos of yesterday's walk round Edinburgh's Arthur's Seat and the beautiful Small Copper butterfly we saw there are now on my blog craftygreenpoet.blogspot.com/2025/09/late...

I'm delighted to have a poem included in the selection published by the Ekphrastic Review (@ekphrasticreview.bluesky.social) in response to the painting Eschatalogical by Kitty North. www.ekphrastic.net/the-ekphrast...

Lovely to see this Small Copper butterfly on Edinburgh's Arthur's Seat today

@littlelibraries.bsky.social I love little libraries, especially this one in Edinburgh that has a cat librarian (real name Milly, nickname Dusty)

A Berry Bright Riverside Walk, my latest blog post craftygreenpoet.blogspot.com/2025/09/a-be...

Here's an impressive clump of Cuckoo Pint in full berry, alongside the Water of Leith Walkway in Edinburgh. I need to memorise where it is, so i can find the arums next Spring, I so often see the berries, so rarely see the arums @wolct.bsky.social

Here's another chance to read my poem Ant Invasion (Malawi, 1991) again. Previously published in the Russell Streur Nature Poetry Anthology, from North of Oxford in memory of poet and editor Russell Streur. craftygreenpoet.blogspot.com/2025/09/ant-...

I agree with the author of this article, cash has many real benefits www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Those who can channel our anger at 15 years of misrule, who can speak the language of outrage and hope, are the politicians of the moment. They will contribute to what could be, in 2029, the greatest electoral reset in our modern history. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

My latest Substack post is up! craftygreenpoet.substack.com/p/are-we-ask...

📢Help save Coul Links! Once again, this beautiful place is threatened by plans for a golf course which would do irreparable damage to rare habitats and wildlife. 🌱🦆🐦🦋🪰 Join us in sending a message to Scottish Ministers to stand up for nature. Add your voice: action.rspb.org.uk/page/166270/...

@imogenforster.bsky.social Here's a magnificent Oleander Hawk-moth! Apparently it's #Leptember, which I'd never heard of. Hopefully I'll see some worthy candidates in my remaining butterfly surveys of the year!

autumn sunshine - the robin's song changes key previously published on Haiku Seeds

#wildflowerhour #notfruits Oak Apples (or are these Oak Marbles?)

#wildflowerhour #fruits. Poppies and Red Campion.

#wildflowerhour #fruits Hairy Willowherb and Rosebay Willowherb.

#wildflowerhour #fruits Blackberries (Brambles); Elderberries; Rown Berries.

Photos from our weekend walks are now on my blog craftygreenpoet.blogspot.com/2025/08/week...

It’s looking a bit like autumn! Plump, luscious fruits are brightening the hedgerows like vibrant jewels, beautiful, but can you identify them? This week find the fruits of wild plants, snap away & post your lovely pics for #wildflowerhour this Sunday 8-9pm using #fruits 🍒

Have your say on the proposals for the Edinburgh tram route between Granton and the Royal Infirmary (to be routed via the City Centre.) (One of the proposed routes would turn the popular Roseburn Path into a tramline) consultationhub.edinburgh.gov.uk/sfc/tram-nor...

Uninhabited? My latest post on Substack craftygreenpoet.substack.com/p/uninhabited

I've been adding items to my Crafty Green Magpie shop on Etsy. Check it out here: www.etsy.com/uk/shop/Craf...

Clouds this moody should bring rain, surely? Still waiting...

It was lovely to see two Speckled Wood butterflies chasing each other in Edinburgh's Meadows today! One stopped for a photo (but look how dry the grass is!)

Photos from yesterday's walk round Edinburgh's Easter Craiglockart Hill and pond are now on my blog craftygreenpoet.blogspot.com/2025/08/east...

Greenlight is a fund from Edinburgh Communities Climate Action Network (@eccan.bsky.social) for climate action projects delivered by community groups in Edinburgh. Voting is now open to help decide which projects should get a share of the funds. www.eccan.scot/greenlightvo...

I've been wondering whether to close my Crafty Green Magpie Shop on Etsy and have decided to keep it open for one more year. I will then likely shut it down, but it has a year at least. You can visit it here: www.etsy.com/uk/shop/Craf...

Thistledown.