Geeking on gothic, at @jillharrison1.bsky.social 's wonderful Trinity Stones exhibition at the Museum of Edinburgh. I'm doing some research for a Trinity Chapel related project of my own.

Happy Pride Month from under Fairlie pier 🏳️‍🌈🦑

Big Scottish Scuba Illuminated Manuscript Reveal coming very soon! I've enjoyed making this So Much! 🦑

The world comes to my bathroom. Singing, scuba, Coniston, the V&A, Brazil...

Hello Bluesky. I've been away ... diving, and painting. I'm back! Let's stay in touch. 🦑

I've watched the film. This excellent project needs and deserves a sponsor.

Eleanor Harris@eleanormharris.bsky.social · last yr.

We made a film! This is such a brilliant, complex, simple, nature restoration project. Can you help us find a sponsor to turn it from experiment into practice? 🌲🐂 www.galbraithgroup.com/our-services...

We made a film! This is such a brilliant, complex, simple, nature restoration project. Can you help us find a sponsor to turn it from experiment into practice? 🌲🐂 www.galbraithgroup.com/our-services...

Thank you to the kind folks who took time to review my book Herryea Forest recently - it's much appreciated and I'm so glad you enjoyed it! If you haven't read it yet why not give it a try? you don't need to be/have a child to enjoy an adventure and learn something about forests! amzn.eu/d/48CyrYM

How was the construction of the beautiful St John's church funded? What can that story tell us about Edinburgh's role in the Scottish and global economy? Murky dealings and colourful characters in my 2013 paper, available online for the first time. open.substack.com/pub/eleanorm...

Following the money

What the origins of St John’s Edinburgh tells us about development of a global commercial capital

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I'm confused

I've been hunting for a few years: have I found Edinburgh's greatest chimera cherry? (Hutchinson Crossway) 🍒🩷🤍

What is the origin of the Easter Bunny, the word 'Easter', and Easter eggs? If you are curious about the scholarly answers, which were to me surprising, I highly recommend episode 5 of the excellent "Data over dogma" - on this link, or on your podcast platform. www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2s8...

We're singing some great music over Easter weekend, do come and listen.

Choir of St John's Edinburgh@stjohnschoir.bsky.social · last yr.

HOLY WEEK AND EASTER WITH THE CHOIR OF ST JOHNS Maundy Thursday: 7pm Eucharist: Byrd Mass for 4 Voices. Good Friday: 7.30pm Meditation: Byrd, Lotti, Bairstow and Sanders. Easter Day: 9.30am Matins: Rose, Ireland, Walton, Philips. 10.30am Eucharist: Haydn, Widor, Wesley, Handel.

Messing about in boats on Sunday in the Clyde. Summer has arrived in Scotland! Thanks to the wonderful C&C Divers team for all the help, training and photos. And we saw dolphins 😃🐬 The white rose shaped thing is sea lemon eggs 🦑

We at Galbraith are excited this week to be launching three initial pioneering opportunities for corporate sponsors to restore nature in Scotland. Read more here and please do get in touch if you'd like to know more. www.galbraithgroup.com/insights-new...

Galbraith develops pioneering biodiversity opportunities

Galbraith is working with landowners and nature experts to provide opportunities for corporate sponsors to restore nature in Scotland.

galbraithgroup.com

An old blog from 9 March 2011, when I looked up at a building and began a journey that led me to write my favourite history paper. eleanormharris.substack.com/p/oddly-goth...

Oddly Gothick

From my archives: discovering a link in the chain of Edinburgh's gothic cultural heritage

eleanormharris.substack.com

A treat on my walk to work; haven't seen a flock of redwings for ages ☺️

Some lovely music this Sunday - Purcell is my favourite!

Choir of St John's Edinburgh@stjohnschoir.bsky.social · last yr.

Join us this Sunday 9 March for music for Lent: Matins: Responses (Ebdon), Te Deum (Tallis), Jubilate (Tomkins 5th), "When David heard" (Tomkins). Eucharist: "Drop, drop slow tears" (Walton), "Nolo mortem" (Morley). Evensong: Responses (Ebdon), Purcell in G min, "Hear my prayer" (Purcell).

Brilliant catching up with @woollymaggot.bsky.social today and his amazing cows in trees. It felt more like a safari than a visit to a forest/farm.

I'm delighted to see the UK Government Timber in Construction Roadmap: but there's one missing bit of the puzzle. Builders, like farmers, could demonstrate net zero without needing to buy offsets. They could even sell offsets to hard-to-abate sectors. Read more: open.substack.com/pub/eleanorm...

The City's Carbon Sink

I'm delighted to see the publication of the UK Government's Timber in Construction Roadmap which is full of good sense and represents a lot of work by many stakeholders.

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Dear climate change document writing people, The M in MtCO2e is variously used to stand for 'metric' (1), 'mega' (1000), or 'million' (1,000,000). Please clarify in your document which you are using, or our tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent could be anything. kind regards, The reader

Worth walking through St John's garden to see the snowdrops if you're passing the West End (you can go in one end and out the other if you're on your way somewhere).

Choir of St John's Edinburgh@stjohnschoir.bsky.social · last yr.

Join us this Sunday 2 March - and between the music look at the wonderful display of snowdrops in our garden 🤍 10.30am Eucharist: Communion (Kidd), "O radiant dawn" (Macmillan), "Ave verum corpus" (Byrd). 6pm Evensong: Responses (Rose), Canticles (Dyson in D), "Evening hymn" (Balfour Gardener).

Fab 20thC music at St John's this weekend.

Choir of St John's Edinburgh@stjohnschoir.bsky.social · last yr.

Join us this Sunday 23 February: Matins: Responses (Martin), (Ireland in F), "We wait for thy loving kindness O God" (McKie). Eucharist: de Jongh, "O sacrum convivium" (Messian), "If ye love me" (Tallis). Evensong: Responses (Martin), Mathias Jesus College service, "Lift up your heads" (Mathias).

Lower oil and gas prices dented BP's profits, so it's reducing investment in renewables 🤷 I know they're just following a global trend - but whether I was an investor looking to my pension, or a charity in receipt of sponsorship, I'd be questioning their lifechoices. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

BP profits drop as it says it will reset strategy

The oil giant is widely expected to say it will scale back on renewables later this month.

bbc.co.uk

The radio just told me UK government want to build 1.5m homes. Why not make them low-carbon to build and a carbon store for the future?

Philip Oldfield@sustainabletall.bsky.social · 2y ago

Why don’t we build more detached homes like this? Modular units built from spruce in a factory and constructed on site in *one single day*. This is a small home, 55m2, but could be extended to 89m2 By Prause Holzbauplanung and Gelzhauser Forst in Germany

Yesterday I saw the brilliant "Three Words for Forest", a verbatim-play-film using foresters' real words. It distilled perfectly my own experience of coming into forestry and discovering the wealth of knowledge and passion in our industry. Congratulations Rachel Clive and @deeheddon.bsky.social!

Well there you go It's not as blue ticky though- it doesn't stop things having accounts with slightly different domains posing as people.

Robert M Ross@bob.omg.lol · 2y ago

That nice handle that Al Jazeera have is how they verify themselves without the need for a blue tick - anyone can use a custom domain instead bsky.social but only if they control that domain.

Why is @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social the only bit of BBC on here?

Love a short and circular supply chain. 🌲🪵🛌 I've finally found a joiner to build my fitted bedroom, and he is bringing me timber which very recently would have stood in a forest ... www.glennonbrothers.ie

I've just heard the woodpecker in London Road Gardens 😊