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Winter Pruning Workshops
January 13, 2025 by philip
Sign up for a winter fruit tree pruning workshop run by Danny Wight and Naomi Barnes, experienced local fruit tree growers. Money […]
Update January 2025
January 13, 2025 by philip
On Saturday 11th January we held our now traditional, and very well attended, annual ‘Wassail‘ to bless the 140+ trees in our […]
Climate Cafe
January 12, 2025 by philip
Second Wed of the month 12.30-14.00 – St Anne’s Church Next Café, February 12th 2025 An open, inclusive, café space for people […]
Hints for Hedgehogs January
January 11, 2025 by jenw
Throughout 2025 I hope you would like to follow our monthly hints to help hedgehogs. To start the year, would you like […]
Conversations with “Technophobes” and “Luddites”
January 10, 2025 by @ourlocality
Client: “I’m hopeless with technology. I’m a complete technophobe!”Tech Support: “No problem! Let’s start with the basics. Do you use a smartphone?”Client: […]
Where would you find this building?
January 10, 2025 by HHS
Here’s our January 2025 poser. We’ll post it as usual on our own HHS Facebook page and also Old Haddingtonshire FB page […]

We live in a global world, but one which still revolves around things local

Most publishing models still rely heavily on advertising

Not only is Ourlocality locally-based but its advert-free

More’s the point we don’t use personal information for marketing

It could be you

Ourlocality is everyone, and anyone with an East Lothian connection

Individuals, community groups, small businesses, community councils and much much more

In fact anyone with a legitimate connection with the county can claim a site and start publishing within minutes

We use a popular opensource software platform, based on WordPress, with lots of security built-in

We foster an environment that encourages free thinking, debate and communication

We want local democracy to flourish and provide people a platform for any cause, however small

Conversations with “Technophobes” and “Luddites”
by @ourlocality
January 10, 2025
Client: “I’m hopeless with technology. I’m a complete technophobe!”Tech Support: “No problem! Let’s start with the basics. Do you use a smartphone?”Client: “Of course, I can’t live without it. It’s where I do all my banking, shopping, and social media. Oh, and I stream TV on it at night.”Tech Support: “Right… and when you say…
Planned Maintenance Postponed to Saturday 11th
by @ourlocality
January 4, 2025
We’re upgrading a few things behind the scenes which we hope will bring everything bang (no bangs expected) up to date and offer some performance improvements. Starting at 9pm next Saturday, as we had 2 other servers to upgrade first. ;-) But if you spot any wrinkles, please drop us a line at: security@ourlocality.org or…
Manual or Automatic?
by @ourlocality
December 29, 2024
We’ve created a new Manual for OurLocality users. It is based substantially on Anthony Hortin’s useful Easy WP Guide, which we have been signposting over the years to new users and old. We’ve taken the step to purchase a licence and spent some time adapting it for our own network. It is not much use…