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A Crash Course in Conservation – the recap

Posts are running later than usual this week – This is mainly from Innovative Learning Week laziness being swamped by uni work. Yeah, that must be it.

Slightly different style of post today, but get comfy by the fire to hear James’s take on the ILW project (19th Feb):

“Excerpts from the upcoming novel: ‘The Dirty City’.

It was a typically muggy Edinburgh Wednesday morning. Johm Gubley looked around fervently. Never in his wildest dreams had he been expecting this. A project! On a Wednesday! With new gloves! Johm loved new gloves.

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It was either the tree or him. One of them had to be cut down. The ranger had been graphically clear on the matter. Johm gripped the saw tightly and grimaced.

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He smiled as he looked at the state of the freshly maintained path. By gum it was so clean he could eat his lunch off of it.

He did.

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“I love carrot cake!” said Johm, even if some deviant did put raisins in it. “From now on we’ll have carrot cake on every single project ever”, he added, in the presence of several lawyers.

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Any characters bearing resemblance to actual persons living or dead is purely coincidence.”

So. Thank you, James. Here are some photos from the day courtesy of John (not to be mistaken for Johm) – Full gallery here

Apologies to anyone that came out for the Roslin Glen project last week. The weather unfortunately prevented it from going ahead.

Updates on pottery social on the 20th March coming soon. Remember you can join us at the pub around 17:30 today (Sunday 2nd) if you can’t make it to the project.

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Sundays Project – Inzievar Wood

This Sundays project brought to you by Nina:
“This Sunday we are heading across the Forth to Inzievar Wood – an extremely exciting brand new site in Fife just outside Oakley! Here we’ll be beating, braking, blitzing, bruising and bashing Rhododendron Ponticum – everyone’s favourite invader.
If you’re all the keen beans that we know you are, come to the tool cupboard next the the CSE on the Pleasance at 10 am on Sunday with waterproofs, appropriate footwear and drinking water and you’ll be whisked off on yet another unforgettable outdoor adventure!
Bambam out!
PS: Although I am in fact not Bambam, I have decided that all future project emails will end thus regardless – cause his sign out is infinitely cooler than anyone else’s. N. “
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Updates and Roslin Glen Project this Sunday – #5

A bit late in the day, but here is some information on tomorrows project and a social in March.

Project via Cameron & Nina:

” Walkways walkways, walkways. What are we going to do with them? I hear you ask. Well we at the Super Fun Happy Time Smiley Dirty Weekenders have the answers! We’ll fix them and chop down more of those pesky not-supposed-to-be-quite-there-trees. It’s going to be a metaphorical whale of a time. A shark in a teapot some might say, a giraffe at the theatre? So bring along your sturdy footwear, warm clothing and waterproofs (it is Scotland after all), rock up to ye olde tool cupboard at the pleasant Pleasance at 10am on the beautiful morning that will be Sunday and have a ticketyboo time!
Cheers, Nina and Cameron, your projects coordinators whose mental stability might be waning. P.S. if you didn’t get it from my delightful informative and coherent and not at all driven by lack of sleep message, we’re heading to Roslin Glen :)”

Social in March

Rachel and Rosie are trying to gauge interest on a ceramic painting social. The potential dates are the 13th or 20th March pre-pub (7ish)

Here is a link of pricing and to display the wide variety of things you can paint!

http://www.doodlesscotland.co.uk/pricelist/

If you want to register your interest, please do so on Facebook, via:

 That’s all for now folks.