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Aberlady Bay Project Recap – 9th March 2014

On Sunday we were at Aberlady Bay, East Lothian to help the LNR warden in removing some unwanted foliage. Unfortunately our bus broke down before we left. Our guest writer today is tools supervisor, Ed Lewis.

“There once was a group of young folk

Who went to the sea to envoke

The fire by the sea

with mattocks and tea

and just two went in for a soak.

…..

The heroes were in for some trouble

With punctures caused by the rubble

With a mighty to do

The many turned few

And beat a hasty retreat on the double

….

The chariot faced no repair

Stout heart repelled the despair

As the sun did dim

With buckets of vim

New paths our heroes did dare

….

Like gravity back to the pub

To gargle booze and some grub

Though the hour was late

We did not debate

That Dirty Weekenders is the best society known to mankind…….

NB:  This poem was largely inspired by the charge of the light brigade and muffins.”

Here are some photos from the day, taken by Cal. Full gallery here.

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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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Digging, Bikes and Dogs – Project #3 Craiglockhart

On Sunday we went to Craiglockhart Forest, just south of Morningside. We worked with a member of the cyclist campaign group ‘Spokes‘ to help maintain the foot and cycle paths. Members of the ‘Friends of Craiglockhart Wood and Nature Trail‘, local dog walkers (and their dogs!) greeted us there with enthusiasm. Hopefully the paths are now in noticeably better condition than when we started!

Here are some photos from the days work, but Click here for the full gallery!