Big Garden Birdwatch
Scottish Storytelling Centre this morning
At the Festival Theatre this evening
At the Cameo today
Weekend Markets
Get outside and start counting the birds you see. All part of the Big Garden Birdwatch organised by the RSPB. They said:-“All you need is a pen, some scrap paper (or, a printout of our handy bird ID sheet), and an hour to spend watching the birds in your garden, or local park, on either Saturday 28, or Sunday 29 January 2012.
Simply make a note of the highest number of each bird species seen on the ground (not flying over) at any one time, and come back to these pages to tell us what you saw.”
They have loads of resources on their website including a sheet to help with your arithmetic….
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At The Scottish Storytelling Centre they still have their Burnsfest going on. This morning you can attend Burns in the City! which starts at 10.30 and you are promised a fun-filled morning of getting to know the Bard as he visited Edinburgh.
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The Conservatoire of Scotland is on stage tonight at the Festival Theatre. Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (formally the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama) present Prokofiev’s Betrothal in a Monastery in a co-production with Scottish Opera. Here they are in rehearsal:-
Betrothal in a Monastery from RCS on Vimeo.
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The Cameo is showing some films The Reporter quite fancies going to see. So if it is as cold as we expect today and tomorrow then it might be a good plan to go to the cinema. The Descendants features George Clooney as a dad, probably most young girls dream dad, and alternatively we feel the need to go and watch The Artist, if only because it will reportedly be Uggie the dog’s last film. It was reported this week that he might retire…
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Today you can go along to Castle Terrace for the Edinburgh Farmers’ Market or go up to the car park in Juniper Green where there is also a farmers’ market, and tomorrow there will be all sorts of goodies at the Stockbridge Market.
Today’s photograph is of a Kirsty Wither painting which is part of the new exhibition at Open Eye Gallery
