A Grapevine request in March 2020 from Colonies resident writers, Diana Hendry and Hamish White, for our poems, thoughts, reflections, diary entries… on this unprecedented […]
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Colonies Covid Chronicle 12: why don’t we listen?
Week 11: Tuesday 9th June: All Lives Matter – but some more urgently than others ~ Hilery Williams If you didn’t blink between 6 and […]
Read moreColonies Covid Chronicle 10: not in the same boat
The cup that cheers ~ Ann Serjeantson A very pretty flowery cup and saucer has been hung from a branch in the Sundial Garden in Inverleith […]
Read moreColonies Covid Chronicle 4 – New ways of life
Easter Day Morning ~ Pat Bryden The walk round Inverleith Park this morning was quieter than usual. There was space to look rather than to […]
Read moreColonies Covid Chronicle 2 – Quiet streets
Routine ~ Ross Robertson, father It’s 5.47am, the call begins to register, subconsciously at first but gently it teases my waking mind, “Daddy, want to […]
Read moreStockbridge shops offer online delivery service
Support Stockbridge: #ShopLocalOnline Just because we shop online doesn’t mean that we can’t shop local! We are so lucky to have such wonderful independent shops […]
Read moreCorona virus – all sorts of help available if you’re isolated
If you need help with shopping, putting your bins out, walking your dog or feel lonely when you’re stuck in the house and would like […]
Read moreCharity choice for carol-singing proceeds, 2019
Five charities have been nominated by Colonies residents to receive the proceeds from the door-to-door collection on Sunday 15th December while carols are sung. All […]
Read moreColonies Ceilidh – Saturday, 4th January 2020
Our New Year COLONIES CEILIDH will be on SATURDAY 4 JANUARY 2020 from 7.30 UNTIL 11.30 at the GRANGE CLUB, PORTGOWER PLACE, STOCKBRIDGE Music from FREELAND […]
Read moreGarden competition results 2019
Our annual garden competition was considerably later this summer to ring the changes. The winners from 2018 were also excluded just for this year so […]
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