I've watched the film. This excellent project needs and deserves a sponsor.

We made a film! This is such a brilliant, complex, simple, nature restoration project. Can you help us find a sponsor to turn it from experiment into practice? 🌲🐂 www.galbraithgroup.com/our-services...

Thank you to the kind folks who took time to review my book Herryea Forest recently - it's much appreciated and I'm so glad you enjoyed it! If you haven't read it yet why not give it a try? you don't need to be/have a child to enjoy an adventure and learn something about forests! amzn.eu/d/48CyrYM

How was the construction of the beautiful St John's church funded? What can that story tell us about Edinburgh's role in the Scottish and global economy? Murky dealings and colourful characters in my 2013 paper, available online for the first time. open.substack.com/pub/eleanorm...

I'm confused

I've been hunting for a few years: have I found Edinburgh's greatest chimera cherry? (Hutchinson Crossway) 🍒🩷🤍

What is the origin of the Easter Bunny, the word 'Easter', and Easter eggs? If you are curious about the scholarly answers, which were to me surprising, I highly recommend episode 5 of the excellent "Data over dogma" - on this link, or on your podcast platform. www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2s8...

We're singing some great music over Easter weekend, do come and listen.

Messing about in boats on Sunday in the Clyde. Summer has arrived in Scotland! Thanks to the wonderful C&C Divers team for all the help, training and photos. And we saw dolphins 😃🐬 The white rose shaped thing is sea lemon eggs 🦑

We at Galbraith are excited this week to be launching three initial pioneering opportunities for corporate sponsors to restore nature in Scotland. Read more here and please do get in touch if you'd like to know more. www.galbraithgroup.com/insights-new...

An old blog from 9 March 2011, when I looked up at a building and began a journey that led me to write my favourite history paper. eleanormharris.substack.com/p/oddly-goth...

A treat on my walk to work; haven't seen a flock of redwings for ages ☺️

Some lovely music this Sunday - Purcell is my favourite!

Brilliant catching up with @woollymaggot.bsky.social today and his amazing cows in trees. It felt more like a safari than a visit to a forest/farm.

I'm delighted to see the UK Government Timber in Construction Roadmap: but there's one missing bit of the puzzle. Builders, like farmers, could demonstrate net zero without needing to buy offsets. They could even sell offsets to hard-to-abate sectors. Read more: open.substack.com/pub/eleanorm...

Dear climate change document writing people, The M in MtCO2e is variously used to stand for 'metric' (1), 'mega' (1000), or 'million' (1,000,000). Please clarify in your document which you are using, or our tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent could be anything. kind regards, The reader

Worth walking through St John's garden to see the snowdrops if you're passing the West End (you can go in one end and out the other if you're on your way somewhere).

Fab 20thC music at St John's this weekend.

Lower oil and gas prices dented BP's profits, so it's reducing investment in renewables 🤷 I know they're just following a global trend - but whether I was an investor looking to my pension, or a charity in receipt of sponsorship, I'd be questioning their lifechoices. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The radio just told me UK government want to build 1.5m homes. Why not make them low-carbon to build and a carbon store for the future?

Yesterday I saw the brilliant "Three Words for Forest", a verbatim-play-film using foresters' real words. It distilled perfectly my own experience of coming into forestry and discovering the wealth of knowledge and passion in our industry. Congratulations Rachel Clive and @deeheddon.bsky.social!

Well there you go It's not as blue ticky though- it doesn't stop things having accounts with slightly different domains posing as people.

Why is @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social the only bit of BBC on here?

Love a short and circular supply chain. 🌲🪵🛌 I've finally found a joiner to build my fitted bedroom, and he is bringing me timber which very recently would have stood in a forest ... www.glennonbrothers.ie

I've just heard the woodpecker in London Road Gardens 😊

Bye Twitter! Now that @edinburghcouncil.bsky.social @lothianbuses.bsky.social and @natlibscot.bsky.social are all here there didn't seem much reason to hang around any longer

Another great Edinburgh institution on bluesky 😊

For me Candlemas gets more important each year: the end of Wintering, and the beginning of Springing. I like that we have a carol service to mark it.

Just occasionally I'm quite proud to be an episcopalian tompepinsky.com/2025/01/22/w...

Some great music this Sunday

Happy Red Squirrel Appreciation Day! Here's my favourite bit of red squirrel research showing that not only does forestry provide great habitat for them, but they are adept at moving house and cope fine timber operations every few decades. www.hw.ac.uk/news-archive... www.hw.ac.uk/news-archive...

Celtic Connections is underway 😍🤠🎻 I loved the creative Finnish fiddles Frigg, and always such a thrill to have a night out in Glasgow!

The problem with Bluesky so far has been not enough corporate accounts joining - twitter used to be such a good source of info. Good to see @forestryjournal.bsky.social getting on the case.

Hello Luke! Hopefully this will reunite you with a few old friends. 🌲🌳🌲

Drysuit course with my pal Simon. Day 1 all (except the view of snow-capped Arran) wrong: regulator, fins, BCD hose, suit leaked, freezing 😨🥶 Day 2 normal diving service resumed, found the right kit, had lots of fun and got to stand by the squid!🧜‍♀️🦑

Still the best global temperature graphic

Doing my drysuit course homework, which will make me look as cool as this guy 🤣🦑

I'm pleased to see this initiative 🦑 I hope it will include business input, as a practical metric needs to be intuitive for non-specialists, cost significantly less than restoration itself, and work in both offset/ conservation, and inset/ production use-cases. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Resolution for the Planet no. 4. Own fewer things 📽️ 🔬 🛶 🚗 Some hows and whys in the link: eleanormharris.substack.com/p/ten-resolu...

Resolution 2. Halve your consumption of little luxuries: tea, coffee, sugar, alcohol, tobacco. You have halved the amount of land and resources dedicated to providing you these things, and in a few weeks, what you do have will give you twice as much pleasure. open.substack.com/pub/eleanorm...

This week included a spectacularly atmospheric pilgrimage around ancient sites of The Machars in Galloway - Flopsy as tour guide for the photojournalist. First stop Torhouse stone circle, about 4000 BCE

Resolution 1. Think about your land occupancy, not just carbon emissions. The world has a finite surface area, and some of it is purely dedicated to you. This includes both land you own and manage, and land you require to produce your resources. eleanormharris.substack.com/p/ten-resolu...

I do like a good New Year's Resolution. Here are ten ideas and some reflections on something I've been working on for 40 years: resolutions for the planet. open.substack.com/pub/eleanorm...

If you are disappointed the Edinburgh Hogmanay celebrations are cancelled, begin an adventure in Edinburgh in summer. Herryea Forest is available in paperback and kindle, and you can read a sample straight away: amzn.eu/d/gnPS2fo

On the sixth day of Christmas ... fantastic to catch up with an old gang and remember how to skate - although everyone on the rink agreed the "eco-friendly ice alternative" was no good as the skates slid sideways instead of gripping. It inspired us to find some proper ice and try again soon!

On the Fourth day of Christmas etc etc, 🎵 three Si-i-imons, two Geor-or-orges and an @andyheald.bsky.social for diver-er-si-ty

Third day of Christmas dive at Fairlie Harbour 🦑

Merry Christmas everyone 🦑 Words by TS Eliot Scene is me under Fairlie Harbour. It really does look like an illuminated manuscript.

I wrote an article recently for our church magazine about how the founder of St John's Edinburgh was brought up by a circle of inspirational women after his father's death. This was one of the women.

Got my tree up 🤩