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New year dawns on Leith

New year dawns on Leith

By fay.young on December 30, 2008

Thanks to Tommy Perman for a picture of the sun rising on the first day of 2008. As we hurtle towards the last day of the year, here’s wishing you all the very best for 2009. Whatever challenges and opportunties lie ahead, Leith Open Space looks forward to reporting on achievements of local people in [...]

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Poetry garden comes indoors for winter

Poetry garden comes indoors for winter

By fay.young on December 17, 2008

Beautiful but cold for outdoor poetry events during the winter, fortunately there is somewhere much warmer just around the corner…
Thanks to the National Portrait Gallery, (conveniently situated in York Place) the poetry garden is coming indoors for at least some of the winter, starting with a lunchtime event on Friday 19 December between 12 and [...]

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Seasonal cheer for Friends of Dalmeny Street

Seasonal cheer for Friends of Dalmeny Street

By fay.young on December 16, 2008

Just to cheer you up, a quick look back at newly planted planters on a rare sunny summer day in Dalmeny Street Garden
It might be December but it’s already time to plan for next year’s growing season.  Join Friends of Dalmeny Street Garden at their next meeting in Out of the Blue Drill Hall on [...]

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The shape of things to come

By losgroup on December 5, 2008

Callum McLeod (on the left) tries his luck at Polish St Andrews night.
What does the future hold? Who will I marry? Will I be rich? No-one really claimed to know the answers but people of all ages had a lot of fun looking to the future through old traditions at a Polish celebration of St [...]

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