Eleanor Harris
@eleanormharris.bsky.social
Nature, economics, forestry, history, sacred & trad music, spirituality, literature, Edinburgh
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I've watched the film. This excellent project needs and deserves a sponsor.
We made a film! This is such a brilliant, complex, simple, nature restoration project. Can you help us find a sponsor to turn it from experiment into practice? 🌲🐂 www.galbraithgroup.com/our-services...
May 20, 2025 at 10:01 PM
I've watched the film. This excellent project needs and deserves a sponsor.
We made a film! This is such a brilliant, complex, simple, nature restoration project. Can you help us find a sponsor to turn it from experiment into practice? 🌲🐂 www.galbraithgroup.com/our-services...
May 20, 2025 at 8:44 PM
We made a film! This is such a brilliant, complex, simple, nature restoration project. Can you help us find a sponsor to turn it from experiment into practice? 🌲🐂 www.galbraithgroup.com/our-services...
Thank you to the kind folks who took time to review my book Herryea Forest recently - it's much appreciated and I'm so glad you enjoyed it! If you haven't read it yet why not give it a try? you don't need to be/have a child to enjoy an adventure and learn something about forests! amzn.eu/d/48CyrYM
May 18, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Thank you to the kind folks who took time to review my book Herryea Forest recently - it's much appreciated and I'm so glad you enjoyed it! If you haven't read it yet why not give it a try? you don't need to be/have a child to enjoy an adventure and learn something about forests! amzn.eu/d/48CyrYM
How was the construction of the beautiful St John's church funded? What can that story tell us about Edinburgh's role in the Scottish and global economy? Murky dealings and colourful characters in my 2013 paper, available online for the first time. open.substack.com/pub/eleanorm...
Following the money
What the origins of St John’s Edinburgh tells us about development of a global commercial capital
open.substack.com
May 16, 2025 at 11:47 AM
How was the construction of the beautiful St John's church funded? What can that story tell us about Edinburgh's role in the Scottish and global economy? Murky dealings and colourful characters in my 2013 paper, available online for the first time. open.substack.com/pub/eleanorm...
I've been hunting for a few years: have I found Edinburgh's greatest chimera cherry? (Hutchinson Crossway) 🍒🩷🤍
April 20, 2025 at 4:26 PM
I've been hunting for a few years: have I found Edinburgh's greatest chimera cherry? (Hutchinson Crossway) 🍒🩷🤍
What is the origin of the Easter Bunny, the word 'Easter', and Easter eggs?
If you are curious about the scholarly answers, which were to me surprising, I highly recommend episode 5 of the excellent "Data over dogma" - on this link, or on your podcast platform.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2s8...
If you are curious about the scholarly answers, which were to me surprising, I highly recommend episode 5 of the excellent "Data over dogma" - on this link, or on your podcast platform.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2s8...
April 19, 2025 at 5:04 PM
What is the origin of the Easter Bunny, the word 'Easter', and Easter eggs?
If you are curious about the scholarly answers, which were to me surprising, I highly recommend episode 5 of the excellent "Data over dogma" - on this link, or on your podcast platform.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2s8...
If you are curious about the scholarly answers, which were to me surprising, I highly recommend episode 5 of the excellent "Data over dogma" - on this link, or on your podcast platform.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2s8...
We're singing some great music over Easter weekend, do come and listen.
HOLY WEEK AND EASTER WITH THE CHOIR OF ST JOHNS
Maundy Thursday:
7pm Eucharist: Byrd Mass for 4 Voices.
Good Friday:
7.30pm Meditation: Byrd, Lotti, Bairstow and Sanders.
Easter Day:
9.30am Matins: Rose, Ireland, Walton, Philips.
10.30am Eucharist: Haydn, Widor, Wesley, Handel.
Maundy Thursday:
7pm Eucharist: Byrd Mass for 4 Voices.
Good Friday:
7.30pm Meditation: Byrd, Lotti, Bairstow and Sanders.
Easter Day:
9.30am Matins: Rose, Ireland, Walton, Philips.
10.30am Eucharist: Haydn, Widor, Wesley, Handel.
April 16, 2025 at 5:03 AM
We're singing some great music over Easter weekend, do come and listen.
Messing about in boats on Sunday in the Clyde. Summer has arrived in Scotland! Thanks to the wonderful C&C Divers team for all the help, training and photos. And we saw dolphins 😃🐬 The white rose shaped thing is sea lemon eggs 🦑
April 7, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Messing about in boats on Sunday in the Clyde. Summer has arrived in Scotland! Thanks to the wonderful C&C Divers team for all the help, training and photos. And we saw dolphins 😃🐬 The white rose shaped thing is sea lemon eggs 🦑
We at Galbraith are excited this week to be launching three initial pioneering opportunities for corporate sponsors to restore nature in Scotland. Read more here and please do get in touch if you'd like to know more. www.galbraithgroup.com/insights-new...
Galbraith develops pioneering biodiversity opportunities
Galbraith is working with landowners and nature experts to provide opportunities for corporate sponsors to restore nature in Scotland.
www.galbraithgroup.com
April 3, 2025 at 9:29 AM
We at Galbraith are excited this week to be launching three initial pioneering opportunities for corporate sponsors to restore nature in Scotland. Read more here and please do get in touch if you'd like to know more. www.galbraithgroup.com/insights-new...
An old blog from 9 March 2011, when I looked up at a building and began a journey that led me to write my favourite history paper. eleanormharris.substack.com/p/oddly-goth...
Oddly Gothick
From my archives: discovering a link in the chain of Edinburgh's gothic cultural heritage
eleanormharris.substack.com
March 16, 2025 at 4:05 PM
An old blog from 9 March 2011, when I looked up at a building and began a journey that led me to write my favourite history paper. eleanormharris.substack.com/p/oddly-goth...
A treat on my walk to work; haven't seen a flock of redwings for ages ☺️
March 13, 2025 at 8:49 AM
A treat on my walk to work; haven't seen a flock of redwings for ages ☺️
Some lovely music this Sunday - Purcell is my favourite!
Join us this Sunday 9 March for music for Lent:
Matins: Responses (Ebdon), Te Deum (Tallis), Jubilate (Tomkins 5th), "When David heard" (Tomkins).
Eucharist: "Drop, drop slow tears" (Walton), "Nolo mortem" (Morley).
Evensong: Responses (Ebdon), Purcell in G min, "Hear my prayer" (Purcell).
Matins: Responses (Ebdon), Te Deum (Tallis), Jubilate (Tomkins 5th), "When David heard" (Tomkins).
Eucharist: "Drop, drop slow tears" (Walton), "Nolo mortem" (Morley).
Evensong: Responses (Ebdon), Purcell in G min, "Hear my prayer" (Purcell).
March 6, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Some lovely music this Sunday - Purcell is my favourite!
Brilliant catching up with @woollymaggot.bsky.social today and his amazing cows in trees. It felt more like a safari than a visit to a forest/farm.
March 5, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Brilliant catching up with @woollymaggot.bsky.social today and his amazing cows in trees. It felt more like a safari than a visit to a forest/farm.
I'm delighted to see the UK Government Timber in Construction Roadmap: but there's one missing bit of the puzzle.
Builders, like farmers, could demonstrate net zero without needing to buy offsets. They could even sell offsets to hard-to-abate sectors. Read more:
open.substack.com/pub/eleanorm...
Builders, like farmers, could demonstrate net zero without needing to buy offsets. They could even sell offsets to hard-to-abate sectors. Read more:
open.substack.com/pub/eleanorm...
The City's Carbon Sink
I'm delighted to see the publication of the UK Government's Timber in Construction Roadmap which is full of good sense and represents a lot of work by many stakeholders.
open.substack.com
March 3, 2025 at 3:15 PM
I'm delighted to see the UK Government Timber in Construction Roadmap: but there's one missing bit of the puzzle.
Builders, like farmers, could demonstrate net zero without needing to buy offsets. They could even sell offsets to hard-to-abate sectors. Read more:
open.substack.com/pub/eleanorm...
Builders, like farmers, could demonstrate net zero without needing to buy offsets. They could even sell offsets to hard-to-abate sectors. Read more:
open.substack.com/pub/eleanorm...
Dear climate change document writing people,
The M in MtCO2e is variously used to stand for 'metric' (1), 'mega' (1000), or 'million' (1,000,000). Please clarify in your document which you are using, or our tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent could be anything.
kind regards,
The reader
The M in MtCO2e is variously used to stand for 'metric' (1), 'mega' (1000), or 'million' (1,000,000). Please clarify in your document which you are using, or our tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent could be anything.
kind regards,
The reader
February 26, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Dear climate change document writing people,
The M in MtCO2e is variously used to stand for 'metric' (1), 'mega' (1000), or 'million' (1,000,000). Please clarify in your document which you are using, or our tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent could be anything.
kind regards,
The reader
The M in MtCO2e is variously used to stand for 'metric' (1), 'mega' (1000), or 'million' (1,000,000). Please clarify in your document which you are using, or our tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent could be anything.
kind regards,
The reader
Worth walking through St John's garden to see the snowdrops if you're passing the West End (you can go in one end and out the other if you're on your way somewhere).
Join us this Sunday 2 March - and between the music look at the wonderful display of snowdrops in our garden 🤍
10.30am Eucharist: Communion (Kidd), "O radiant dawn" (Macmillan), "Ave verum corpus" (Byrd).
6pm Evensong: Responses (Rose), Canticles (Dyson in D), "Evening hymn" (Balfour Gardener).
10.30am Eucharist: Communion (Kidd), "O radiant dawn" (Macmillan), "Ave verum corpus" (Byrd).
6pm Evensong: Responses (Rose), Canticles (Dyson in D), "Evening hymn" (Balfour Gardener).
February 26, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Worth walking through St John's garden to see the snowdrops if you're passing the West End (you can go in one end and out the other if you're on your way somewhere).
Fab 20thC music at St John's this weekend.
Join us this Sunday 23 February:
Matins: Responses (Martin), (Ireland in F), "We wait for thy loving kindness O God" (McKie).
Eucharist: de Jongh, "O sacrum convivium" (Messian), "If ye love me" (Tallis).
Evensong: Responses (Martin), Mathias Jesus College service, "Lift up your heads" (Mathias).
Matins: Responses (Martin), (Ireland in F), "We wait for thy loving kindness O God" (McKie).
Eucharist: de Jongh, "O sacrum convivium" (Messian), "If ye love me" (Tallis).
Evensong: Responses (Martin), Mathias Jesus College service, "Lift up your heads" (Mathias).
February 19, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Fab 20thC music at St John's this weekend.
Lower oil and gas prices dented BP's profits, so it's reducing investment in renewables 🤷
I know they're just following a global trend - but whether I was an investor looking to my pension, or a charity in receipt of sponsorship, I'd be questioning their lifechoices.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I know they're just following a global trend - but whether I was an investor looking to my pension, or a charity in receipt of sponsorship, I'd be questioning their lifechoices.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
BP profits drop as it says it will reset strategy
The oil giant is widely expected to say it will scale back on renewables later this month.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 12, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Lower oil and gas prices dented BP's profits, so it's reducing investment in renewables 🤷
I know they're just following a global trend - but whether I was an investor looking to my pension, or a charity in receipt of sponsorship, I'd be questioning their lifechoices.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I know they're just following a global trend - but whether I was an investor looking to my pension, or a charity in receipt of sponsorship, I'd be questioning their lifechoices.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The radio just told me UK government want to build 1.5m homes. Why not make them low-carbon to build and a carbon store for the future?
Why don’t we build more detached homes like this?
Modular units built from spruce in a factory and constructed on site in *one single day*. This is a small home, 55m2, but could be extended to 89m2
By Prause Holzbauplanung and Gelzhauser Forst in Germany
Modular units built from spruce in a factory and constructed on site in *one single day*. This is a small home, 55m2, but could be extended to 89m2
By Prause Holzbauplanung and Gelzhauser Forst in Germany
February 12, 2025 at 7:31 AM
The radio just told me UK government want to build 1.5m homes. Why not make them low-carbon to build and a carbon store for the future?
Yesterday I saw the brilliant "Three Words for Forest", a verbatim-play-film using foresters' real words. It distilled perfectly my own experience of coming into forestry and discovering the wealth of knowledge and passion in our industry. Congratulations Rachel Clive and @deeheddon.bsky.social!
February 6, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Yesterday I saw the brilliant "Three Words for Forest", a verbatim-play-film using foresters' real words. It distilled perfectly my own experience of coming into forestry and discovering the wealth of knowledge and passion in our industry. Congratulations Rachel Clive and @deeheddon.bsky.social!
Well there you go
It's not as blue ticky though- it doesn't stop things having accounts with slightly different domains posing as people.
It's not as blue ticky though- it doesn't stop things having accounts with slightly different domains posing as people.
That nice handle that Al Jazeera have is how they verify themselves without the need for a blue tick - anyone can use a custom domain instead bsky.social but only if they control that domain.
February 5, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Well there you go
It's not as blue ticky though- it doesn't stop things having accounts with slightly different domains posing as people.
It's not as blue ticky though- it doesn't stop things having accounts with slightly different domains posing as people.
Why is @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social the only bit of BBC on here?
February 5, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Why is @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social the only bit of BBC on here?
Love a short and circular supply chain. 🌲🪵🛌
I've finally found a joiner to build my fitted bedroom, and he is bringing me timber which very recently would have stood in a forest ...
www.glennonbrothers.ie
I've finally found a joiner to build my fitted bedroom, and he is bringing me timber which very recently would have stood in a forest ...
www.glennonbrothers.ie
February 4, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Love a short and circular supply chain. 🌲🪵🛌
I've finally found a joiner to build my fitted bedroom, and he is bringing me timber which very recently would have stood in a forest ...
www.glennonbrothers.ie
I've finally found a joiner to build my fitted bedroom, and he is bringing me timber which very recently would have stood in a forest ...
www.glennonbrothers.ie
I've just heard the woodpecker in London Road Gardens 😊
February 3, 2025 at 8:58 AM
I've just heard the woodpecker in London Road Gardens 😊