Inverleith Neighbourhood Partnership
Monday 16 November 6.30 – 8.30pm, Blackhall Library
All welcome – for further information call 0131 529 5050 or email elaine.lennon@edinburgh.gov.uk
TRIM meeting tomorrow
Tenants & Residents in Muirhouse (TRIM) meets tomorrow (Tuesday 10 November) at 6.30pm in Muirhouse Millennium Community Centre. All welcome. Continue reading TRIM meeting tomorrow
Searching for the Pilton Bakers …
West Pilton Neighbourhood Centre Christmas Fair
Saturday 28 November 12 – 2pm
CHRISTMAS FAIR
Saturday 28 November from 12.00-2.00pm
We will have FREE Face Painting, a raffle and tea/coffee, mince pies/biscuits will be available.
We are looking for more christmasy arts & crafts, decorations, cards, jewellery, cakes, puddings, sweets. If you or someone you know is arty and wants to come along and have a table with us, call Linda on 0131 551 3194 to book a table – all tables are FREE
Primary kids get set for Daily Mile
A few minutes of physical activity aids health and boosts performance
The Education and Health Secretaries have written to all primary schools in Scotland to encourage them to implement daily physical exercise as part of the school routine, through the roll out of the Daily Mile or other initiatives. Continue reading Primary kids get set for Daily Mile
PEP AGM next Monday
PILTON EQUALITIES PROJECT
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
MONDAY 16 NOVEMBER 11am – 12 noon
Pilton Equalities Project (PEP) welcomes nominations for membership of the Board of Directors from people who live in North Edinburgh and representatives of local organisations who have an interest in the work of the Project.
The maximum number of members of the Board is 11, with a majority of members being elected from groups or activities associated with the Project. If more than 11 nominations are received in time for the Annual General Meeting then there will be a vote at the AGM. A further 4 co-opted places will be available for those who have experience and/or skills which could be of assistance to the directors
Completed nomination forms must returned by Friday 13 November.
If you wish to stand for appointment at the 2014/15 Annual General Meeting of Pilton Equalities Project, please fill in the nomination form (below) and then sign it and return it to Pilton Equalities Project, 3 West Pilton Park, Edinburgh, EH4 4EL
Lothian Youth Dance open auditions
Saturday 12 & Sunday 13 December
Dance Base are putting together a Youth Dance Company for young people aged 14-19 from across the Lothians (writes Heather Marshall). All welcome and the audition workshops look like they’ll be great fun!
Milestone reached as Penumbra wins health award
Penumbra Milestone wins innovation award
An Edinburgh service for people with Alcohol Related Brain Damage (ARBD) has been recognised for its innovative approach at this year’s Scottish Health Awards, held in the capital this week. Continue reading Milestone reached as Penumbra wins health award
Police release images of Davidson’s Mains assault
Ye Olde Inn, Saturday 22 August: do you know this woman?
Police Scotland has released CCTV images of a woman they wish to trace as part of an investigation into a serious assault earlier this year. The incident happened at around 9pm on Saturday 22 August at the Ye Olde Inn, Davidson’s Mains. Continue reading Police release images of Davidson’s Mains assault
Lest We Forget
We will remember them
Captain Alfred ‘Bill’ Bland of the 22nd Battalion Manchester Regiment (7th Manchester Pals) wrote to his wife on 26 June 1916:
It’s a marvellous war, with these thousands of miles of trench system. If only we can smash it all in, and get out in the open, the war might suddenly collapse this year. I am afraid this is too optimistic, though at the present time I am outwardly blatantly optimistic. The true English spirit of deliberate self-depression and self-deprecation has to be countered.
We are a most happy family, everybody doing his best to help everybody else, none of us expecting too much but all ready to do our part of the job, minimising the obstacles to the men, but considering them carefully enough in our thoughts and conversation.
By the time this reaches you, the sun out to be rising a fraction earlier upon us – a new vista, one hopes, fresh woods and pastures new, a slaughtered dragon, a monster laid low. Our Manchester lads are in good form today; burnt brown, eager and keen. I love ’em.
The Manchesters fought on the first day of the battle of the Somme on 1 July. Sgt R.H. Tawney saw Bland just before zero hour and wrote later: “My captain, a brave man and a good officer, came along and borrowed a spare watch from me. It was the last time I saw him.”
The 22nd Manchesters suffered almost 500 casualties that fateful day; eighteen officers and 472 other ranks killed, wounded or missing. The battalion ‘ceased to exist in any recognisable form’.
Captain Bland is buried in the Danzig Alley military cemetary, Mametz (below). His widow never remarried.
Remember, remember … RLS Day!
Friday 13 November is Robert Louis Stevenson Day and a week-long programme of events has been planned to celebrate the great Edinburgh writer’s birthday (see Event Guide below).
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