Adult Education Tutor, Poet, Short Story writer, Wildlife Surveyor, Conservation Volunteer. Edinburgh, Scotland
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Juliet Wilson (Crafty Green Poet)
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Coming soon to National Library of Scotland (@natlibscot.bsky.social) - Rain, the Exhibition, opens on Friday. www.nls.uk/whats-on/rain/
This week's book review is The Secret World of Twilight by Sally Coulthard craftygreenpoet.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-...
Today's post on my Crafty Green Poet Substack follows the development of larch cones during the Spring. Read it here: craftygreenpoet.substack.com/p/the-develo...
The programme is up for the Edinburgh International Book Festival, with booking opening to the general public on 25 June. Browse the programme here: www.edbookfest.co.uk/events
#BirdOfTheDay theme is #YourChoice any bird capture, so here's a beautiful Song Thrush from Edinburgh's Lauriston Farm, taken this morning
Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #InFlight, birds in flight. The alt is #BlurBirds, blurry bird shots. This blurry Meadow Pipit in flight should just about cover both themes
Just saw Time and Water, an excellent and sobering documentary about time, glaciers, family and memory. Currently screening at Edinburgh Filmhouse (@Filmhouseedinburgh.bluesky.social). Next, read the book that inspired it! timeandwaterfilm.com
The Edinburgh Canal Festival takes place 20 June from 11-4pm
This year's Festival is a little more compact, with three lively zones instead of five.
Come & explore the canal from Lochrin Basin to Fountainbridge Green - and also at Harrison Park.
Enjoy free activities, great food, and live music!
Beautiful buttercups and more at Lauriston Farm (Edinburgh's agroecology project) today craftygreenpoet.blogspot.com/2026/06/bank...
Both the government and the Court of Appeal now treat protesters as terrorists and terrorists as protesters. It's hard to accept that a "Labour" government is imposing rightwing authoritarianism on the UK, but please read this column to see what's happening.+🧵
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The right is obsessed with ‘two-tier policing’. This is indeed a two-tier government – but the real victims are progressives, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
Renowned Icelandic poet and author, Andri Snær Magnason, is chasing something elusive. As the glacial ice of his homeland melts, he constructs a cinematic time capsule to hold onto this moment and sen...
