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Easter Special

A fortnight ago Rosie and Rachel organised an egg hunt around Arthur’s Seat. They used easter as an excuse, but really it was all about the chocolate. Here is what Rosie had to write about the day:

“Rosie and Rachel put on a smashing great show. Starting in the morning with egg painting wonderful designs were to behold upon many a shell. Some keenly then went on to hunt eggs while others chose breakfast (at about 2pm? We’ll call it brunch). Finally when all of the Easter Bunny’s leavings had been found (without any sort of assistance ever), we rolled. It was epic. The eggs turned fast and chaotic. No one really knew which was theirs untill they found the remains. And yet, two had not completely smashed. And so what choice was there? But to ROLL AGAIN. The smaller egg one. A few went for a walk. Then pub. Then home. Happy Easter.”

Here are some photos, taken by Cal: Full Gallery

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Our last project of the semester – Roslin Glen 30th March

As I’m sure you will know, lectures have ended and revision time is upon us. This meant that we had our last project of 2013-2014 last Sunday. We went to Roslin Glen and Nina has our write-up for it in the form of a series of Haikus:

“Last project this year

Upon Roslin we decended

Allan met us there

 

Our numbers were few

Each one keen and pure at heart

Unafraid of work

 

Paths were redressed

Wind-grit was barrelled and spread

Muddy feet, no longer

 

Apple and birch were planted

Habitat piles – piled up

Happy hedgehog homes

 

Biscuit tins were opened

Legendary sandwiches, yum

Every belly full

 

Three brave and strong souls

Tackled a big stump with tools

Alas, the stump won

 

A brick hunt began

Planted out of sight they rest

Weeds met their makers

 

With Roslin at heart

Back up the long hill we climbed

See you next season”

 

A couple photos from the day: Gallery Page

Projects may be over, but don’t worry! We will still meet at the pub on Sundays and Thursdays. There may yet be other social events before, and maybe even during summer – so keep your eyes on the blog and the facebook for updates.

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Currie wood recap – 23rd March

On Sunday we were at Currie Wood, just south of Edinburgh. It was a favourite Dirties activity of tree-ringing for preventing further growth and spread of unwanted tree species. Here is a short limerick from Cameron:

“There was a strange group named dirties

With a weird fixation for trees

We went out to currie

In rather a hurry

And the trees flew away with the bees”

Photos from last weeks project at Harmeny are now up here: Harmeny Gallery

This weeks are available here: Currie Wood Gallery