Dear All   Thank you for the many kind messages I got back from last week’s Update.  You really cheered me up!  One more year, then someone else can do this job.  Just few things this week as I have a flood of mails to catch up on a huge range of issues….    Bridgend […]

Dear All,  Council was in recess over Easter although the demands didn’t seem to be a lot different. I took a break from this regular self-imposed Update task, at least. It’s sometimes hard to stay positive, isn’t it?   Portobello is a founder member of BEST – Better Edinburgh for Sustainable Travel. Very welcome as […]

Dear All   This week I have thoroughly enjoyed reading Jim Hurford’s self-published book on Life and other distractions around Portobello present and past in two hundred limericks with illustrations by Porty artists.  As Roz Preston says on the back “…they weave together philosophy, gardening, human nature, sea slugs and twockers”. Sasha Udell says: “the […]