David Hoy

There's a tree down over the Hawthornvale path just west of the Newhaven Road bridge. It's possible to walk around it #EdTravCyc @edinburghcouncil.bsky.social

Popped along to Granton Garden Bakery before the rain to pick up our flour from Lauriston Farm. I had great fun helping with the harvesting and threshing of the Rouge D'Ecosse wheat. Looking forward to some lovely bread!

This is a completely irresponsible decision from the UK government, where is the vision and courage needed to address the climate emergency?

A morning of wading and cutting back willow on the Bonnington stretch of the Water of Leith with @wolct.bsky.social Before and after photos give a sense of what we managed.

It's always a good start to the week when you're called a c*** simply for riding a bike on the road and inconveniencing a poor hard working car driver 🤨

Beautiful sunny Sunday morning for gorse cutting just down from Arthur's Seat summit with the Ranger Service. Didn't get as much done as we'd hoped as the rangers had a couple of call outs to deal with.

Enjoyed my session with @wolct.bsky.social today along the Balgreen section of the river. Unfortunately had a small leak in my waders but it was good to get 2 bags of litter & a roller blind away from the river.

Enjoyed our Love Music Community Choir practice last night at the Usher Hall. And it's not every day that a choir of over 300 sings Happy Birthday to you in a style of your choice! I asked for punk!!

Another morning in Holyrood Park cutting back gorse with the Ranger Service. We're trying to clear larger areas around the Rock Whitebeam. Always good fun to be working in the park.

Windy afternoon for a walk along the Tweed from Peebles to the Neidpath viaduct & back. Lovely late lunch before the bus back to Edinburgh.

I've thoroughly enjoyed volunteering with Restoration Forth, it's been so much fun. Here's hoping we get many more oyster larvae!

Sometimes you just have to take a small action & in partnership with other lovely people and organisations something positive can happen! news.stv.tv/world/scotti...

We were lucky enough to get places on @seabirdcentre.bsky.social SOS Puffin trip to Craigleith today. Very satisfying to cut down the mallow knowing that it will help access to burrows next year for the puffins.

Out with @wolct.bsky.social this morning in the Murrayburn/Longstone area. The strong breeze made litter picking a little more difficult. Two full bags collected whilst other volunteers planted trees.

What a lovely read this is, leaving me with plenty to think about. This came to my attention thanks to @david-farrier.bsky.social but it took a while to get it from the library, which is very apt!

Went to see The Cycle of Love yesterday at @filmhouseedinburgh.bsky.social What a lovely film about the power of love.

Very much enjoyed our Love Music Community Choir practice last night. It was great to be singing with Robyn for the first time. The concert is on Monday 9th November at the Usher Hall.

Lovely sunny Monday morning for some weeding at Drakkars Drift garden. What a great use of an old bowling green in Victoria Park.

Enjoyable if wet walk with @redropescot.bsky.social going up Berwick Law and on to Balgone lake.

Beautiful autumn afternoon for the September Edinburgh Critical Mass ride yesterday. Enjoyed the company and seeing parts of south Edinburgh that I hadn't seen for a while. @edcriticalmass.bsky.social

Fascinating tour of the conservation studios at National Gallery of Scotland Modern One. The only complaint is that we could have done with more time.

Enjoyable wee stroll around Newhaven with @geowalks.scot yesterday talking geology. Thanks to Heart of Newhaven for organising.

Another enjoyable evening at Leith Community Croft listening to music from so many talented folk including my lovely wife performing here for the first time. Feeling autumnal away from the fire.

Had an interesting visit to the Forth Marine Hatchery near North Berwick last week with fellow Restoration Forth volunteers. It was great to hear about the work going on to raise lobsters and also oyster spat.

Another fun Love Music Community Choir practice last night at the Usher Hall singing in two additional languages; Scottish Gaelic and Farsi.

Enjoyed my wading session this morning with @wolct.bsky.social on the Balgreen/Saughton Park stretch. Two trolleys & bags of rubbish removed from the river plus a few Balsam plants pulled up 💪

A very breezy morning in Holyrood Park cutting back gorse with the Ranger Service. Would have been nice to have been working in the sunshine but an enjoyable session nevertheless.

Nothing to see here, car drivers moan, politicians buckle. When will we learn?

And yet @edinburghcouncil.bsky.social tore out the perfectly good cycle lane on Silverknowes Road to placate moaning car drivers 😕

Another oyster cleaning day at Heriot Watt university with Dornoch Environmental Enhancement Project. There are 5,000 being deployed next week, here's hoping it all goes well.

Enjoyable Monday morning wading session with @wolct.bsky.social looking for Himalayan Balsam and litter on the stretch around Kinleith Mill.

Had a cracking day yesterday in East Lothian visiting the Preston Tower, Prestongrange Industrial Museum and the Waggonway Centre.

It's the hypocrisy of the Lib Dems that gets me. Just think about the cost of this work and yet there's no money to repair/replace the bridge in St Mark's Park!

Sunny morning for my first gorse cutting session of the season with Holyrood Park Ranger Service. We cleared a small area to hopefully give some Rockrose a better chance of doing well.

Sunny Monday morning weeding session at Drakkars Drift garden. It's such a great addition to Victoria Park.

A day trip to North Berwick yesterday to meet folk from the North Berwick Hatchery and to release juvenile lobsters.

Didn't make the start of @edcriticalmass.bsky.social yesterday but caught up in time for the stop at Portobello (with ice cream) I wondered if the tourists on the Mile thought we were a fringe show.

Sunny morning for a litter pick with Edinburgh Trash Club as part of the Big Forth Clean Up. Marine Esplanade beside the Seafield treatment plant looking a little cleaner now.

Our only Edinburgh International Festival show this year was Mere Mortals last night. Absolutely mesmerising dancing, it's such a joy and a pleasure to watch world class dancers.

Very enjoyable session tonight at Leith Community Croft including a couple of Dolly Parton songs and the Time Warp.

Sunny Monday morning wading in the Water of Leith between Saughton Park and Balgreen. Good to get some litter out of the river and banks as well as pulling up some Himalayan Balsam.

Very enjoyable morning at Lauriston Farm threshing the rye we harvested and stacked two weeks ago. A workout with a purpose alongside lovely folk, what could be better?

Super concert last night at the Pianodrome with Karine Polwart and Dave Milligan. Fabulous quirky venue and great music, loved it.

The community allotments at Lauriston Farm provided the backdrop to a fascinating Regeneration Reading Group discussion on Thursday evening.

I just signed a @scotrewilding.bsky.social petition: Scotland Needs a Nature Minister. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/sc...

I signed this a couple of weeks ago, given the continued hot weather in the UK, it surely makes sense. You can't buy disposable BBQs in Australia so it can be done. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/77...

Decided not to go to Calton Hill to watch the eclipse, thought the ambience at the Leith Community Croft session would be better.

It was quite a view from my seat in Glasgow University library, difficult to focus on the screen at times.

Lovely sunny afternoon for a transect walk looking for butterflies in Holyrood Park. Not many flying today but we did see a Comma.

I went to see David Byrne's American Utopia at @filmhouseedinburgh.bsky.social tonight. Absolutely loved it!