🚲 edi.bike | issue 125 | 29th Dec '25 Bid to scrap city traffic order sub-committee fails; French onion sellers, Cargo bike wheelies, events, infrastructure, route closures & more: https://buttondown.com/edi.bike/archive/edibike-issue-125-29th-dec-25/ #bikeSky #edinburgh

Last chance: send in your events for this year’s Edinburgh Minute hyperlocal Hogmanay edition (going out to 27,000 inboxes soon): forms.gle/nn8TZzDCRcWi...

In case you need inspiration for a Sunday walk by the Water of Leith. The walkway made the list www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...

More of artist Helga Stentzel's fun clothesline animals #WomensArt

Kathy Klien, US artist known for her intricate flower mandalas created with petals #womensart

Wishing you all a happy and relaxing festive season. Coco has been enjoying Brussels sprouts and snoozing 🐶🎄☮️

Happy Christmas to bollard fans across the world! #WorldBollardAssociation

'Winter Sea' 1960 by UK painter Joan Eardley #WomensArt ❄️

Last-minute gift idea... Get Fit from Home workshop at Griffen Fitness, 12 January. Boost your mojo for 2026, or a friend's. Suitable for all, free healthy nibbles and Q & A. Only £20.26 from www.griffenfitness.com/shop/p/get-f... #EdinburghHour #fitness #workshop

Part of Edinburgh's Radical Road to reopen within months. Where James Hutton, founding father of geology, arrived at his theory of how and when the world was formed. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The only known photographs of mathematician and computing pioneer Ada Lovelace have been acquired by the National Portrait Gallery just before they were expected to be sold to a private buyer. www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/nat...

Last-minute gift idea... Get Fit from Home workshop at Griffen Fitness, 12 January. Boost your mojo for 2026, or a friend's. Suitable for all, free healthy nibbles and Q & A. Only £20.26 from www.griffenfitness.com/shop/p/get-f... #EdinburghHour #fitness #workshop

we will be open every day till Christmas Eve, ready with all the gifts you will need to have a lovely time Christmas

St MARK'S PATH REOPENS.—Contractor will provide controlled crossing and alternative diversion: www.broughtonspurtle.org.uk/news/st-mark... #Edinburgh #hyperlocal #news #activetravel

Finished PTing for the year! Woot!

'Landscape with Hidden Moon' by contemporary Scottish painter Victoria Crowe #WomensArt

🚧 Powderhall / St Mark’s Path – Update Good news: the path will reopen from Fri 19 Dec to Sun 4 Jan while construction pauses, giving everyone on Quiet Route 20 a safer, more direct link over the festive period. Council still reviewing options for a better route during future closures.

Arthur Street Planter update: 🎄 We have a Christmas tree! 🎄 Harvested from our back garden just t'other side of the wall. Spring bulbs already coming up... #Leithlife #greensky #urbangarden #Edinburgh @edinburghminute.bsky.social @leithcentralcc.bsky.social @spurtle.bsky.social

I'm at 199 followers, can I get to 200? I promise cute dog pics. I used to have thousands on X / Twitter but prefer this place, it's nicer here...

🦇 Our advice pages are there to answer the most widely asked questions we get. From what to do if you find a bat to making your garden more bat friendly: www.bats.org.uk/advice

Hidden Door returns to Edinburgh in June 2026, and we're now inviting visual artists to get involved 🎨 Be part of an immersive, multi-artform festival celebrating new, emerging and breakthrough talent in Scotland. Full details: hiddendoorarts.org/call-for-sub... #HiddenDoorFestival

😍 Amazing scrap #bicycle #wheels in a #Durham street! 🙋 Available via #Leith artist @hannahayre.bsky.social Wheels via @thebikestation.bsky.social & local shops @edi.bike @sw20.info @edfoc.bsky.social @thecockburn.bsky.social @chasbooth.bsky.social @katrinafaccenda.bsky.social @threadinburgh.scot

Local women crochet/knit woolly PJs for rescued vulnerable, ill and formally abused elephants to shield them from the nighttime cold, Elephant Conservation Care Center, India #UnravellingWomensArt

Jessie Newbery (186-.1948), Scottish artist and embroiderer and one of the artists known as the Glasgow Girls. She created the Department of Embroidery at the Glasgow School of Art where she was able to establish needlework as a form of unique artistic design. #womensart

Of course they do, they can't see over the fucking steering wheel. Accident waiting to happen.

SO EXCITED! I've been accepted onto the Practical Horticulture course at @thebotanics.bsky.social - a dream come true! #urbangardening #treehugger #plantlady

The prickly evergreen of winter: holly 🌲With its shiny spiky leaves and bright red berries, it’s steeped in folklore and festive tradition. #Holly trees also provide shelter and food for #wildlife during the cold months. Watch to discover more about this iconic tree. #FestiveSeason #Christmas

So today I found out that my TED talk ‘This is What a Digital Coup Looks Like’ was TED’s most watched talk of the year. It’s sort of amazing & terrifying. Because this *is* what a digital coup looks like. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZOo...

Yellow @metoffice.gov.uk weather warnings for wind and rain associated with #StormBram are in place for Edinburgh today and into tomorrow. A Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) Flood Alert for Edinburgh and the Lothians has also been issued.

Hidden Door returns to Edinburgh in June 2026, and we're now inviting visual artists to get involved 🎨 Full details: hiddendoorarts.org/call-for-sub... #HiddenDoorFestival

🚲 edi.bike | issue 122 | 8th Dec '25 Hire bikes in cycle parking update: Our conversation with Voi; Trans Solidarity Rides; Spokes’ December Action Update; plus events, infrastructure, route closures & more: https://buttondown.com/edi.bike/archive/edibike-issue-122-8th-dec-25 #bikeSky #edinburgh

🦇 Bats do not make nests, but choose various places throughout the year to roost. Bats roost in houses, both new and old but some species prefer hollow trees, or caves. In buildings they often shelter behind hanging tiles and boarding or in roof spaces. Learn more here: buff.ly/3PNgDhB

⚠️ BREAKING: Glasgow Hospitals Reintroduce Mask Mandate Amid Rapid Flu Surge VISITORS have been told to wear facemasks in Glasgow hospitals amid a flu outbreak.

'The Skate Girls of Kabul' photographic series by Jessica Fulford-Dobson featuring girls from the Afghan capital before the Taliban took control. #womensart #NeverForget women and girls of Afghanistan #HumanRights

💪 NEW! 💪 'Get Fit from Home workshop' at Griffen Fitness, 12 January. Boost your mojo for 2026, or a friend's. Come together! It's fun! Suitable for all, free healthy nibbles and Q & A. Only £20.26 from www.griffenfitness.com/shop/p/get-f... #SmallBusinessSaturday #SBS #fitness #workshop #Leith

🦇 If you are new to bats you may find our e-learning resources a great way to get started! Some highlights: - Intro to bats - Bat care for non-bat carers - Bat resources for teachers and youth workers - Bat talks from conferences More here:

Local book! For the 'reluctant' exerciser in your life - Learn to get fit without a gym, only £7.99 from my PT studio or www.getfitandenjoyit.com Also available at Logan & Malloch, foot of Leith Walk. #homefitness #smallBusinessSaturday #SBS #smallbizSaturday #Edinburgh

🌿 Super exclusive! 🌿 Pure Leith mint tea, now in our third year. Grown, dried and packaged in Leith - delivered by bike (EH only), free UK P&P. Only £5 from www.pureleith.com #SmallBusinessSaturday #uniquegift #SBS #tea #Leith

Starting small with the shop Christmas windae. Next week we ramp up the bling... #Leithlife

Good work! Thank you!

PLACES still available for ASTRONOMY walk with Prof Andy Lawrence. Start 12.45 on Saturday (6 Dec) from the Portuguese Cannon, watch the falling of the black time ball, learn about great Victorian astronomers and more. Free for members, donation for non-members. Contact <[email protected]>.

📣 New Leither magazine out now 📣 Writing about a subject close to my heart... 🥔 🥔 🥔 Potatoes! 🥔 🥔 🥔 #Leithlife

I can vouch for their brown sauce. umami-tastic! Gonna get some for t'other half... #Leithlife

Three reasons to avoid cutting back dead stems and seed heads this winter: 🐞 Hollow stems provide homes for hibernating insects, such as lacewings and ladybirds 🌻 Birds feed on seed heads like teasels, sunflowers and thistles ❄️ They look good when dusted with frost or snow!

This looks yum 😋

More planting days this Friday and Sunday at Mill Lane and Dalmeny Street Parks.

🚶‍♀️ Elm Row: ideas for change After their recent walkabout, WELM (Windsor Street, Elm Row, Leopold Place & Montgomery Street West Association) has shared practical proposals to fix Elm Row’s long-standing problems with parking, loading and damaged pavements. Send comments by 3 Dec and we'll pass on

St MARK'S PATH. Call for community action: www.broughtonspurtle.org.uk/news/st-mark... #Edinburgh #hyperlocal #news #traffic #activetravel

Monday evening vibes. Sofa snuggling 😍