Creative Colonies 2022 a success!
After an enforced break of 2 years due to the pandemic, we were delighted that Creative Colonies could resume in its pre-covid, actual face-to-face format […]
Read moreInsurance Cover for buildings and contents in the Colonies
The Grapevine occasionally receives queries about home insurance, mostly involving residents looking for renewal quotes and asking for recommendations regarding insurance companies. Here is some […]
Read moreColonies Covid Chronicle 15 (final issue): Life goes on
Ten Little Goosanders ~ Daphne Brett, age 9 Rushing through the rocky river – looks quite cold but they never shiver. Over the bumps and whoosh […]
Read moreColonies Covid Chronicle 14: time for renovation?
Underground ~ Rupert Wolfe Murray This is the time for renovation Doors, floors, windows and kitchen But the more I do The more I find Rusty […]
Read moreColonies Covid Chronicle 13: the beauty of cobwebs
Dear Colonies Covid Chronicles I feel I must reassure one of last week’s contributors [Alastair Hulbert]. We are not gone – we have simply decamped […]
Read moreColonies 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 11: whatever gets you through
The Park ~ Pat Bryden ‘What did you see in the park today, dear little child of mine? Were the swans on the pond 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 9: rainbow cars
A View from My Window ~ Pat Bryden As the weeks have passed we have noticed the birds, heard the silence, seen the fox, the heron, […]
Read moreColonies covid chronicle 8: Metaphors and imagery
Distancing ~ Pat Bryden We wave across a street. We call on phone or when we meet. We listen as […]
Read moreColonies Covid Chronicle 7 – ways to escape
Colonies Cats ~ Diana For the Colonies Cats there’s an everyday drama. In our street the white cat with a black tail is obviously king of […]
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