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Merry Christmas 2022
21 Wednesday Dec 2022
21 Wednesday Dec 2022
17 Sunday May 2020
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09 Sunday Feb 2020
Posted Views and Nature
in01 Saturday Feb 2020
Posted Headstones and monuments, Humour, Views, Work In Progress
inVarious days in January 2020. Not very much going on this month but there will be more activity as the year grows.
News from the cemetery Garden; bulbs are showing.
The Snowdrops begin.
A bout of breeziness brought down a huge tree branch across this path. It fell from a tree to the right of the picture, and that sawn edge is from previous work to recreate the path. A couple of hours of sawing through lots of little off-branches and the path is navigable again
Everything is coming out early again. Here are some snowdrops, daffodil buds and heather. We have crocus shoots and bluebells coming out too, but they’re not ready for their close-ups yet.
The modern equivalent of “Ten Green Bottles”! Another three were in hands or pockets.
We were asked, via our Facebook page, if we would take photos of a couple of family gravestones. Below are some of the photos we were able to send the inquirer…
28 Thursday Mar 2019
Posted Views and Nature, Work In Progress
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Photographs provided by Graham Jones.
13 Monday Nov 2017
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in12 Sunday Nov 2017
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inThank you to the Rev. Joanne Foster for leading the Service, to Dr Mark Taylor for playing a moving lament afterwards, to Councillor and Mrs Whyte for laying a wreath on behalf of the City of Edinburgh Council, to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission for their continuing care of the monument and to our members for attending this morning. It was a beautiful morning, but very cold.
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12 Saturday Jul 2014
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