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- Carey’s Spring Highlights 2024 May 3, 2024The Beehive Garden, Dunbar Nursery School The children have been very busy planting salad and veggies in the Beehive Garden and poly tunnel and harvesting our leeks to make leek and tattie soup! So far this year we have beans and corn, beetroot and potatoes, leeks, cucumbers, tomatoes, radishes, salad leaves and strawberries. We have…Continue […]carey
- LPP Launch May 2, 2024Dear friends I’m delighted to be writing to invite you to the launch of the East Lammermuir Place Plan 2024 – 34 which will take place in Spott Village Hall on Tuesday 11 June at 7.00 in the evening. The community council undertook a wide-ranging survey of local residents in September 2023. After that we worked with…Continue […]peterb
- RES Energy Storage Exhibition May 1, 2024Renewable energy company RES are hosting a public exhibition in the Oldhamstocks village hall to discuss their proposed Lawfield battery storage project. All are invited to join from 3 – 8pm on Wednesday 8th May. Further information in their event poster and newsletter.Continue readingRES Energy Storage Exhibitiongareth
- A Lithics Handbook May 1, 2024This handbook was created for Mesolithic Deeside to help the members identify and record the stone tools collected during their fieldwalking in Aberdeenshire. It looks at the whys and hows of recognising worked flint before providing the details of what to record. It is illustrated throughout and available to download for free from the British…Continue […]Ann
- Gull Watch 2023 April 30, 2024In 2023 I recorded gull nests in the locality. Gull nests are easier to see from a good vantage point or from a height, so the count shows a concentration around where I live – they are quite easy to see and hear. This year I am starting to look earlier in the season, but…Continue […]@ourlocality
- DDHS AGM 2024 April 29, 2024The Society’s 2024 took place in the Town House on 9th April. Following the main business, there were short presentations by some of the committee and the slides and text below were featured. The first presentation by Dr James Herring featured a 1940 Haddingtonshire Courier Yearbook which was loaned to the presented by DDHS member…Continue […]jherring
- What is the estimated nesting gull population in East Lothian? April 29, 2024Several years back (May 2020) this is the reply I got from ELC, which was classified as an Freedom of Information request, so I had to pay £17.50. The information would have taken almost no time to compile, it looks like there are no records. Had I requested an MSP, MP or a councillor surely…Continue […]gullwatch
- Opportunity to join a Berwickshire Naturalists’ Club ( BNC ) visit to Belsay Hall and Gardens. April 28, 2024ELAFNS is endeavouring to forge a closer relationship with BNC and on occasions we may for instance reciprocally invite attendance at each other’s events. Such an opportunity has arisen. On Saturday 8th June BNC is hiring a bus to visit Belsay Hall and Gardens ( close to Morpeth ). This bus will leave Berwick upon…Continue […]George
- TRUSTEE RECRUITMENT April 22, 2024The Trustees of The Ridge are looking to refresh and expand their team. If you feel you have the skills, the time and the passion for our unique approach to community empowerment, we would love to hear from you! Please click on the link for more info….Continue readingTRUSTEE RECRUITMENTkatedarrah
- Valencia Update: odour complaints again April 20, 2024Following complaints from local residents arising from Valencia’s landfill site at Oxwell Mains, I was delighted to secure an onsite meeting with their Business Development Director Paul Ringham. Sod’s law that our visit coincided with easterly winds rather than the more common westerly’s meaning that the unpleasant smells coming from the facility were greatly reduced,…Continue […]whatawaste