My apologies for not including the address of the Consulate General of Japan in yesterday's Update. The Consulate is at 2 Melville Crescent, EH3 7HW (phone: 0131 225 4777) and is open for anyone to go and sign the Book of Condolence on Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday this week from 9.30am to 12.30pm and 2pm to 4.30pm.
I'll add two more bits of information, since yesterday, one from PEDAL - Portobello Transition Town:
"Portobello Organic Market will take place as usual on the first Saturday of the month, 2nd of April. There will be all kinds of fantastic seasonal and local produce for sale at your favourite regular stalls plus newcomers Supernate Oil (rape seed oil grown in Midlothian using low impact farming techniques and bottled on-site), Home Ground Coffee Ltd (speciality roasted coffee beans ground to you specification) and Antonia Kearton cards (post cards of Portobello).
Due to early morning demand, please note the market will now run from 9.30 am to 1.30 pm every month.
The market needs your support! PEDAL's funding for the market runs out on 31st March, so April's will be our first without any paid staff. We have contracted Market Craft to set up and take down the stalls, as well as sorting out the paperwork, but we still need volunteers to steward at the market each month. This is a fun and rewarding role assisting traders and shoppers, running the PEDAL stall, helping with publicity, and for regular volunteers we provide first aid training. There are two shifts that you can choose from: 9-11.30 or 11.30-2. If you would like an opportunity to help promote local and organic food and crafts, meet new people and learn new skills, then please don't be shy - contact Tom Black at tom@pedal-porty.org.uk or on 0131 258 4483. We really need your support now if the market is to continue."
Second is my personal recommendation that you visit The White House, which officially opened yesterday, maybe a plan for next Saturday if you can't make it during the week? The White House is a beautiful B-Listed art deco building at Niddrie Mains Road, in the centre of Craigmillar. The building was originally a 1930s roadhouse, built at at the time when family outings by motor car were becoming popular and included tea rooms and billiard rooms as well as a public and lounge bar. Known locally as 'The White Hoose', it was latterly run as a pub until it fell into disrepair and lay empty for more than a decade. Many local people still remember being there and have their own stories to tell about it. The Craigmillar regeneration company PARC acquired the building in 2007 and have now returned it to its former glory. The restoration work was part-funded by the Scottish Government's Town Centre Regeneration Fund and Historic Scotland's Conservation Grant. The White House opened to the public yesterday with an Inaugural Exhibition that showcases the past, present and future of Craigmillar. This has been put together in partnership with the Craigmillar Archives local group and the Scottish Government's Scottish Sustainable Communities Initiatives, of which Craigmillar is one of eleven regeneration projects. So the White House is very well worth a visit, and the opening times are 10.30am to 3.30pm, Tuesdays to Saturdays, from last Friday until 10 June. For enquires please email parc@edigroupscotland.co.uk
Best wishes
MaureenStatistics: Posted by administrator — 19 Mar 2011, 16:02
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