We demanded a coffee shop from Santa as punishment for his pavement parking.

We’ve made it a bit more festive. 🎅🏻

25/00249/FUL - Revised visualisations and floor plans submitted for 30 Longstone Rd. (Former Longstone Inn site). Main change is reduction from 21 flats to 20 flats to accomodate a bin store internally. 1 commercial unit included too.

Frohe Weihnachten. Another Xmas day nearly done. 👌

Happy Christmas to everyone in our community. Hope 2026 is good to everyone. 🙏

Liking this one a lot. 👌

Visiting the exact spot my very lovely and tolerant wife agreed (after realising I was serious later) to marry me, about 17 years ago. #Wieck

Out exploring Greifswald and Wieck late afternoon. 👌

Prost! 😳 as described. Bang on!

A firm favourite. Extremely drinkable. 👌

Und jetzt Flensburger. Für alte Zeiten.

Kassler brotchen, mutzen, und hanging with the youngest.

Ah yes it’s good to back 👌

Prosty prost mein lieblings!

Massive non EU passport queue in Berlin, at least an hour 👎🏼 and stung by Vodaphone for an additional £20 to use my phone data. Frigging stupid brexit. Grrrr

Hailes Quarry Park Heron

Spent the last Greenway Garden session of the year with our crew, volunteers, new volunteers, WHHS students, out talking with everyone we could about the plans for the new playpark & community micro hub. Busy year ahead. Thanks to everyone who’s helped, encouraged, & supported everyone this year. 🙏🏻

Interesting watch at DM Sub Planning committee yesterday. The New Mart Rd development returned after the Scottish Reporter took a long time to respond. Far from satisfactory as far as Cllrs concerned. Huge development - no car club spaces & no active travel contribution at big no-car development. /1

Last session in the Calders Greenshoots garden for the year. Good progress being made on the solar harvesting fit out. More improvements to come when we start back in the new year. 👍

Ever get the feeling you’re being watched

Additionally, we're going to meet on site with Places for People in January to discuss options around tree planting and find out what's possible. 👍

Longstone sinkhole fixed, path open again, wall reinforced, and existing paths beefed up with more hardcore and whindust. A bit of seeding required in spring, and some mesh fencing to add but otherwise all good. 🙂

Busy morning in the Calders Greenshoots garden building the solar panel unit with the troops, and then Christmas wreath making in the afternoon. A good productive day. 🎅🏻🧑‍🎄🤶🎄🎄🎄

Excellent date night choice from lovely wife. Anna Lapwood on organ at St Marys Cathedral at the top of the walk. Train from Kingsknowe there and back. Very pleasant. Great selection of music. 👌

Please remember this next time you hear Nigel Farage and Reform say we must leave the ECHR to control our borders

Nigel Duncan interviews LCC Secretary & Run Director Alan Gordon on how the new Hailes Quarry Junior Parkrun works, Parkrun Primaries, and how to get involved. This aired on Crystal FM 107.4 this morning. Thanks for sending us the clip Nigel. 🙏 on.soundcloud.com/3qjDIVhgCtFQ...

It’s been suggested by one our members that it would be good if we could get some more trees planted along the northern edge of the Murray Burn behind where Short & Curlys and the Jaflong used to be. We’d need to liaise with ‘Places for People’ to see what’s possible.

Works on stabilising the river wall alongside the Burnside path progressing well. Hopefully not too long before they are finished, and the Longstone Sinkhole is no more.

A good shift this morning with the crew in the Calders Greenshoots Garden. We’ll be back on Tuesday morning to kick on some more. It’s now going to be a combined solar power / potting bench system. 👌Made possible with a Community Grant from @edinburghcouncil.bsky.social 🙏

Reported all these overflowing bins outside Canal View Primary. A very grim welcome to primary school. One of the bins has a notice behind it warning about control of rodents and to be careful. This is beginner level fail on rat control. 👎🏼 @edinburghcouncil.bsky.social

Quintessence killing it tonight at Baberton Golf Club. So good to have regular quality music in the SW. 👏👏👏

Don’t think he’s going to catch many fish from there. Getting ready for an overnight nap.

Top of Longstone Street again. 👎🏼

Out litter picking, cleaning up around the Greenway Garden, mulching, weeding, pruning, and having good chat and coffee. Supporting each other on our journeys.

Old photo from Greenway Garden of fruit tree care. Fun start to the day showing Chris from The Orchard Project around.They r working with WHHS students next year. 😁 to support learning on how to plant and care for fruit treees. We've got plenty to practice on and plenty of of options for planting.

Trees bring so many benefits directly into our communities. Perfect time of the year to admire their structure and form. ❤️

Progress rigging up the solar harvesting unit and gubbings this morning with the crew in the Calders Greenshoots Garden. Perfect weather for it. 👌. Even more impressive was Ricky’s home made peanut butter cookies 🍪 and banana bread. ❤️

As part of ‘World of Work Week’ our head gardener Alan spent the afternoon with four primary classes at Canal View talking about his job, his life, meta-skills, and career path to date. Alan really enjoyed engaging with the pupils who asked so many great questions he could have stayed all day. ❤️

Out tree planting with some of the crew and giving previous years saplings some TLC. Many starting to establish well now despite the brutal drought last year. 👍

Good progress on fixing the damaged hydrant points we reported on Redhall Crescent. 👌

CEC officer has met on site with the contractors who are going to try to improve matters for pedestrians by adding more hardcore and maybe some steel sheeting to bridge the worst section of mud.

Agenda for our December meeting. All welcome.

Fun morning with the adults and beekeeper Wade, followed by a fun afternoon with Wester Hailes High School students and Wade, learning about bees, honey, and of course tasting it. 👌🐝🐝🐝 Greenway Garden.

@livingstreetsedi.bsky.social @rosssmckenzie.bsky.social @drscottarthurmp.bsky.social It's hard enough trying to gain basic improvements in school street safety locally from poor driver behaviour, overgrown hedges etc without pupils and residents having to negotiate all these abandoned signs.

Written to Scottish Canals, again asking the contractors return and remove all the pedestrian diversion signs they left behind at the start of Oct after they finished tree works along the canal. Diversion route includes primary school streets, which are narrow enough already. Not good enough.👎👎

We’ve raised the very muddy condition of the diversion path after it was highlighted by local users of it.

🚨The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has already passed 40,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 100,000. If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done Please sign and share 🙏 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

Good progress on sorting the water harvesting system for the next growing season in the Calders Greenshoots garden this morning. . 👍

Clovie garden shared some of their beautiful chard with the Sunflower Food Pantry this morning. ❤️

My big boy turned 18 today. Very proud of him. Maturing into a kind, thoughtful and considerate adult. Qualities that will serve him well in life. ❤️