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Seaside City: revisiting the history of Edinburgh’s coastline A Scottish Historic Buildings Trust evening event on November 12, 2025 at Riddles Court, Edinburgh with Tamsin Grainger and Dr Jonathan Gardner. Ticket link Stretching from the River Almond to the River Esk, Edinburgh’s remarkable coastline runs from one of the few Roman ruins in Scotland to buried quarries and beaches made entirely from the rubble of the city’s demolished buildings.

Seaside City: revisiting the history of Edinburgh’s coastline

A Scottish Historic Buildings Trust evening event on November 12, 2025 at Riddles Court, Edinburgh with Tamsin Grainger and Dr Jonathan Gardner. Ticket link Stretching from the River Almond to the River Esk, Edinburgh’s remarkable…

Happy Bookshop Day! Edinburgh Community Bkshop, Barcelona, Bethany, Topping (maybe) #bookshops

Trad Autumn colours from 3 Oct walk as on the train today with unseasonal ones! #distancedrift

There and Back A walk to celebrate the Autumn Equinox on Monday 22 September 2025, 5.30-7.15pm meeting at The Pitt. Booking link At the Autumn Equinox, there is balance between the daylight and the dark. As we celebrate and embrace this momentary state of equilibrium, let us take a deep breath. Transformation and renewal will come with the start of the season, so this is a good time to pause, walk, and notice what’s around us.

There and Back

A walk to celebrate the Autumn Equinox on Monday 22 September 2025, 5.30-7.15pm meeting at The Pitt. Booking link At the Autumn Equinox, there is balance between the daylight and the dark. As we celebrate and embrace this momentary state of equilibrium, let us take a deep breath.…

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Women walking the city at night Women Walking the City at Night – a collective drift under the Full Moon. This annual, world-wide walk is the creation of Eleonore Ozanne and 2024 was the third year that she hosted it. Ours was th…

Women Walking the City at Night 6 October Edinburgh, Stroud (England) and around the world walkingwithoutadonkey.com/2025/09/03/w...

community we got to be part of, so that when they were old enough to walk alone without me, they knew the safe places, the people who worked in them that they could call on in need, and how to negotiate any possible challenges. Literally becoming Street Wise.

Walking with Children You don’t call it a “walk”. Instead, say things like “we’re going exploring”, “going on an adventure”, “climbing trees”, “looking for bear traces”, or “playing street games”. These sound much more app...

Reading about children and walking with @cqualmann.bsky.social @wordscaper.bsky.social walklistencreate.org/2025/07/30/w... reminded me how the 10 years of walking to and from primary school with my children was also about the neighbourhood we walked through and the... /

The Rough Wooing — Tamsin Grainger This short film (just under 4 minutes long) was made for the Walking the Land August First Friday Walk . Zoe Ashbrook provided the prompt which, for remote walkers, was ' A Familiar Walk&nbsp...

The Rough Wooing, a walk in which the landscape revealed it's history of war www.tamsingrainger.com/blog-all-pos... #walkingtheland #firstfridaywalk #granton #edinburgh #war

... follow, and close-read them. Inside their essays are gems like this by Helen Mort, writing on Melissa Febos and also on Annie Dillard (whose weasel writing I have spent many hours with, dredging for the ways she manages to engage me that viscerally.) 🙏

"And I admire writers who are unafraid to show their own confusions, how their impressions and feelings often unsettle or undercut their deeply held beliefs."
I've decided that what you must do if you can't afford a Masters in Creative Writing, is to seek out the 'teachers',...

The rather cool Ingleby Gallery #edinburgh with artwork just now by Aubrey Levinthal & Mia Kokkoni - both worth seeing #artexhibition #edinburghartfestival #miakokkoni #aubreylevinthal @inglebygallery.bsky.social

7 things to do in Edinburgh when it rains Scotland has a bit of reputation when it comes to the weather! If you live here, you know that there can be gloriously sunny, crisp days when it is a pleasure to be alive. However, it does rain som…

What to do in Edinburgh when it rains (and festival events are cancelled). Keep safe, though, in the predicted winds! walkingwithoutadonkey.com/2018/05/02/6...

Bees pulling their moves on oh-so-fragrant (you'll have to take my word for it) late roses

@theskinnymag.bsky.social v much liking your Guide to Edinburgh but you forgot to mention free soundwalks on the Edinburgh cycle paths: No Birds Land in the Trinity Tunnel & Peace and Biscuits on the Chancelot Path!

Dancing lillies in Edinburgh hot sun (honest). It was the wiggling stamens that got me!

YouTube video by Kel Arrowsmith Solstice June 2025 • Walking an Orbit on the Longest and Shortest day

Sharing the Summer Solstice reel Walking an Orbit on the Longest and Shortest Day (10 walking artists) curated by @kelarrowsmith.bsky.social Mine's Widdershins, a Witch's Walk youtu.be/_VdvMdMgRlY?...

On a morning that was disturbed by the terrible sound of machines mowing down grasses & flowers that have grown up for 2 months undisturbed, turning to Ethel & her quiet effective way of protecting nature. Wd that I cd do the same w/ similar success. Thanks @helenmort.bsky.social #ethel #helenmort

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Swirls of dessicated fabric, interlocking wire spirals and intricate thread sworls in pink detritus, Granton beach, Edinburgh #distancedrift

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Unfortunately this item came after the survey in the Edinburgh Minute so I had already filled it in. I agree with your comments /amendments. I almost always have to attach my bike to a railing or post, but I didn't notice this is the small type 😕

Yes to Carla - beautifully put. That is what we want and how we want our councillors to treat us / behave

Walked (that is hobbled due to knee injury) afterwards, recalling weekly drifting in good company at the start of first ever forays into #psychogeography. So grateful to @soniaoverall.bsky.social

Photo of Wardie Bay in Edinburgh, the corner between breakwater, beach and ocean with seaweed lying and seagulls flying

5th anniversary #DistanceDrift to the sea - ever reflective physically and mentally. I dipped through the surface breaking the mirror, shattering the warmth #wardiebay #edinburgh

All my own photos!

No I don't mind 😊

4. Queen Bertha of Kent snapped in Canterbury

The most famous pilgrims of the Camino de Santiago Today we travel the Way of Saint James visiting the main sculptures, statues, monuments and figures dedicated to the pilgrim

3. Found at Alto de San Roque, 3 kms from O Cebreiro A pilgrim made in bronze by Galician sculptor José María Acuña that was installed in the Xacobeo of 1993 www.elcaminoconcorreos.com/en/blog/the-...