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Dear Dirties,

Exciting events this week, pub quiz on Thursday & project on Sunday;

Socials say;

‘It’s time for our first social of the year!!! 🙂 Join us at the Auld Hoose pub from 6pm this Thursday for the dirtiest pub quiz ever. There’ll be drinks, silly questions, some surprise prizes and as many nachos as you can eat! See you there! Becky & Morna

https://www.facebook.com/events/295716587301575/?ref_dashboard_filter=upcoming ‘

Projects say;

‘This Sunday 21^st September we’ll head out to Hermitage of Braid in the south of Edinburgh where we’ll be saving pretty flowers. How, you ask? We’ll rake a freshly cut wildflower meadow because the cut grass and flowers would otherwise rot and overload the soil with nutrients, and the meadow would become a boring and uniform grass-green.

So come join us for a great day out in the name of biodiversity! We’ll meet at the bike shed just to the left of the Pleasance CSE at 10am (where we stopped on our way to the first project). Please bring sturdy shoes, appropriate clothing and water – we will provide a vegetarian lunch.

Your project people,

John and Emma ‘

If you’ve not joined our facebook group here’s the link;

https://www.facebook.com/groups/2209818533/10152806651583534/?notif_t=group_activity

See you soon,

Rose (sec)

PS:

Celiacs- we can provide sandwich filling but it’s too wasteful to buy a gluten free loaf every week (sorry)

Vegans- the only non-vegan sandwich filling is the cheese….we can not put this in your sandwich.

On what turned out to be a very sunny Saturday (yes, really!) we ventured out to Holyrood Park for our first project of the year. After a short walk up the hill we arrived at our work site overlooking St. Margaret’s Loch. We got to work sawing and lopping down gorse bushes to create a vertical firebreak in a large swath of gorse that stretched across the hill; we even discovered a toad among the bushes and Rosie and I got very excited about a family of swans down on the Loch. The views were beautiful and everyone had a great time getting to grips with the prickly gorse, eating gorgeous homemade cookies and, of course, devouring the timeless Dirties’ sandwich. After descending from the hill and playing some games, we made our way to the Auld Hoose to indulge in masses of nachos, chips and beer.

By Emma C