Are you the missing piece in a recue dog’s life?

Inspired by Channels 4’s Lego Masters, staff at Dogs Trust West Calder have been competing to build their own dogs made completely from Lego. The team embarked on this project after realising building a Lego structure and building a new life for a rescue dog could have some similarities. Continue reading Are you the missing piece in a recue dog’s life?

To Ecuador with love

Scottish charity KidsOR announces seven-figure funding for eight new children’s operating facilities in Ecuador

Nicola Wood, co-founder of children’s charity KidsOR, has announced a transformational funding package to build eight new specialist children’s operating facilities in Ecuador as she spoke at the country’s Paediatric Surgery Society in the capital, Quito. Continue reading To Ecuador with love

My Stylist and Me: Charlie Miller exhibition at Ocean Terminal

THERE is a bond that exists between a client and their hairdresser that sometimes cannot be fulfilled by anyone else. There is a trust that covers many different things.

Charlie Miller, one of Edinburgh’s top hairdressing companies, has launched its ‘My Stylist & Me’ photo exhibition in the Image Collective Gallery on the second floor at the Ocean Terminal Shopping Centre.

The vision to explore the salons’ diversity in clientele and highlight the rock-solid bonds and personal relationships that have evolved, was celebrated at a drink’s reception in the gallery with some of the 26 participating stylists, their clients and other invited guests.

Jason Miller, joint managing director, said: “We are delighted to showcase some real-life client hairdressing and to collaborate with Ocean Terminal shopping centre on this exhibition.

“Working in the hair industry, you get to meet a lot of clients with their own styles, personalities, quirks and habits. As a hairdresser, it is our job to correctly interpret their needs and make sure we give them exactly what they are looking for. This exhibition is a reflection of our ways of seeing, being and doing and the end experience.”

The exhibition of 26 individual images runs throughout December 2018 and January 2019.

‘My Stylist & Me’ exhibition
The Image Collective Gallery
Management Suite, 2nd Floor
Ocean Terminal Shopping Centre
Leith EH6 6JJ

December Garden Plant of the Month: Helleborus

Helleborus flowers in the middle of winter, and it’s always spectacular – a plant that blooms, even when most garden plants are hibernating.
Helleborus (also known as the Christmas rose) treats you to large white flowers with a fantastic crown of stamens at their heart from November to March. The plant can cope with snow or frost: branches might droop a bit, but as soon as the temperatures climb again, Helleborus will straighten up.

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Scottish business confidence on the rise?

Bank of Scotland’s Business Barometer for November 2018 shows: 

  • Overall confidence for firms in Scotland rose seven points in the past month to 11 per cent
  • Firms’ confidence in their own business prospects was 22 per cent, compared with 18 per cent a month ago
  • But businesses were evenly split on the economy overall, with as many describing themselves as pessimistic as were optimistic

Business confidence in Scotland rose seven points during November to 11 per cent, according to the latest Business Barometer from Bank of Scotland. Continue reading Scottish business confidence on the rise?