March/April 2019
TRINITY SPOTLIGHT
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A Warm Welcome To The March/April Issue Of The Trinity Spotlight Well, the nights are staying lighter for longer and bulbs are starting to appear so, hopefully, Spring must be on the way. And that of course means Easter and the Easter school holidays are also not far away. If you are looking for things to do with the family, the Edinburgh Science Festival is running from the 6th to the 21st of April. Some events are being held locally at the Botanics and they also have an Easter Trail for the littler ones. Hopefully we will get some good weather so we can enjoy getting out doors again without having to get too wrapped up. Enjoy this issue of the Spotlight, enjoy Easter and hopefully enjoy some family time and outdoor actvities (and maybe some Easter chocolate too!)
Best Wishes Sue
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Contents
The Trinity Spotlight
6 Technology - Don’t Be An April Fool 10 Edinburgh Science Festival at the Botanics 14 Motoring - Is A Hybrid The Right Car For Me 17 Lifecare - Job Vacancy 18 Croquet At Lauriston Castle 20 Hard Sudoku 22 An Update From Local Councillor Jim Campbell 26 Trinity Artist Sarah Knox Exhibits Locally 31 Emotional Spring Cleaning - Detachment 34 Trinity Community Council 38 Health and Fitness - Reading To Expand the Mind 41 Life Begins - We’ve Retired And My Partner’s Driving Me Crazy! 42 Holy Week Services In Trinity & Goldenacre 43-45 Community Spotlight 46 Puzzle Solutions 47 Recipe - Chicken & Rice Burritos
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Pilates For The Older Body with Jane Robson Staying younger for longer Every Wednesday, 10.30 - 11.30am Carlton Bridge Club 36B Warriston Gardens Goldenacre, EH3 5NE Classes also at Cramond & D’Mains
• improve posture, flexibility, balance • relieve stress and tension • gentle, safe and effective Booking essential jane@shangrilapilates.uk 0131 312 7168
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Edinburgh Science Festival at the Botanics 6th to 21st April The Botanics is putting the spotlight on food for the Science Festival this April. Food connects to so many other areas of life and poses many questions. How can we use technology to design better diets, and why is our diet so different to that of our closest relatives, the great apes? Crucially, what can we do to make farming sustainable and how are the wild ancestors of the plants and animals we eat still vital in securing our food supply? This last theme will be explored in a new photographic exhibition – Food Forever – that shows how scientists and farmers around the world are protecting and using biodiversity to deliver greater food security. Look out for the talks programme linked to the exhibition. For those wanting a more hands-on experience you can create your own unique plant specimen and discover how and why botanists preserve plants for scientific study. There will also be activities offered by our partners at SEFARI that will appeal to all ages. Young scientists can help the Easter Bunny look out for signs of spring on the Easter Trail, and the adventurous can join Call of Nature for a playful field
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For full programme details and to book tickets visit www.sciencefestival.co.uk
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LifeCare Are Looking For A Stockbridge Community Engagement Officer! Local charity LifeCare are looking for a part time Community Engagement Officer for a six month contract. We want local people to make the best out of retirement and this exciting new role will involve engaging with over 60s within the community to set up regular activities and groups in the area - from history walks to daytime discos! You need to be a confident, organised self starter with a passion for your local community and an ability to make things happen. ÂŁ22,000 Pro rata - 21 hours per week (3 days a week). Part funded by University of Edinburgh. Call 0131 343 0958 or email georgiaartus@lifecare-edinburgh.org.uk for further information. Closing date for applications is Monday 22nd April at 9am.
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Croquet at Lauriston Castle In the last couple of years the castle and gardens of Lauriston Castle have attracted many more visitors and they are now a favorite site for the citizens of the capital. Edinburgh Croquet Club leases the lawns in front of the castle which have one of the finest views of the Firth of Forth in the city. If you have played croquet before and would like to enjoy this exceptional location on long sunny summer days, you will certainly have fun if you join our friendly club. The membership fee for the 2019 season is only £60. If croquet is a complete mystery to you or you haven’t played it for a long time you might like to join the series of six lessons which the club holds on Saturday mornings to introduce people to this fascinating game. The lessons start on Saturday, 20th April at 10.30 am at Lauriston Castle, 2a Cramond Road South, Edinburgh EH4 6AD. The remaining sessions will mainly be held on the following 5 Saturday mornings but we do our best to accommodate those who cannot make Saturdays. The course is open to all, with equipment provided, and costs £25. If you join the club after the course, the course fee is deducted from your membership fee. To join the club or beginners’ course send an email to beginners@edinburghcroquetclub.com. You can also find further details at the “Learn to Play Croquet With Us” section of the club’s website at www.edinburghcroquetclub.com.
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HARD SUDOKU HOW TO PLAY Fill in the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1 through to 9 with no repetition! Thats all there is to it. You solve the puzzle with reason and logic - there’s no maths involved and no adding up. Its fun. Its challenging Its addictive. (Soln on pg 46)
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An Update From Local Councillor Jim Campbell The City of Edinburgh Council has taken a big decision: to build the 2.8 miles tram line to Newhaven, just beyond the boundary of our Forth ward, finishing the original proposal from 1999. That proposal cost rather more than expected, and led to the Edinburgh Tram Inquiry by Lord Hardie, which is yet to report. There is little disagreement that the procurement of the original line from the Airport to York Place was deeply flawed. No doubt we have learnt lessons from that, and will strive to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past. In fact, building on some of the evidence given to Lord Hardie, we know from a statistical review of similar tram projects that the £257m budget set aside gives an 80% probability of having sufficient funds to complete the line from York Place to Newhaven. No one can be certain of the final cost. The bid cost for the extension is currently £207m, based on industry standard contracts, designed to align the interests of the Council and contractors through the build. This greatly reduces the likelihood of costly delays and arguments. They provide for the possibility of the cost falling. But they do not prevent costs rising: that will depend on what is found under the ground and the condition of all the materials the Council already has from the original work. The risks comes back to Edinburgh Council, and to Lothian Buses (which is owned by local Councils). The financing of the project is reliant on a £20m special dividend from Lothian, which allows a critical reduction in the borrowing requirements in the early years. When the extension opens, 87% of passengers are projected to come from existing Lothian bus services. The Economic Appraisal suggest only £0.73m in additional fares will be collected each year. The strain on Lothian will be significant, with the potential for greater fare increases and reductions in service, putting the future of our excellent 22
bus service at risk. Of course, reassurances were given that this would not happen. Old hands on the Council pointed out that the similar reassurance were given last time. I am not sure if it is courage or foolhardiness that lead to a majority of Councillors voting to proceed with the tram extension. I hope their optimism turns out to be warranted. It will be many years before we know the answer. I am more mindful of the immediate challenges we face as a city. In February the Council Administration’s budget cut something like £60m from Council and Health & Social Care expenditure between 2018/19 and 2019/20. We expect the Council’s funding from the Scottish Government to continue to fall over the years ahead. Our City Development Plan identifies an unfunded capital requirement of £350m to spend on necessary infrastructure, which didn’t include tram. I think we should spend the money on other desperately needed infrastructure like roads, schools and housing, not trams. A month before, my Groups budget proposed an additional £18m for road & transport investments and £78m for schools, including a new Trinity Academy, amongst other things. Halting the tram extension would, at a stroke, give us £81m of capital to invest in existing areas, agreed the Council’s Head of Finance. The priority for the Council ought to be reducing the area of our estate and making much better use of the buildings we retain. New schools serving as “community hubs” delivering multiple services are key. Directing capital expenditure to supporting the growth of the city, while reducing ongoing running cost, should be the goal. That would be my choice. Please get in touch about this, or any other Council matter, by calling me at the City Chambers on 0131 529 4235. Or better still by email at: jim.campbell@edinburgh.gov.uk
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What’s on
The Fourth Cordis Prize For Tapestry Exhibition Until 27 May ●
See the very best and most ambitious contemporary examples of tapestry weaving
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A free and beautiful exhibition at Inverleith House
Edinburgh Science Festival 6 Apr – 21 Apr
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Inspire your inner scientist
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Enjoy our series of family-friendly events
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An exciting and funpacked programme for all ages
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at the Botanics Scottish Rhododendron Festival Until 31 May ●
Explore our beautiful outdoor collection
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See tender rhododendrons under glass
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Take a spring walk with a garden guide, available every day at 11am or 2pm
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Garden open daily from 10am to 6pm
Easter Trail 6 Apr – 22 Apr ●
Join our Botanics Bunny on a quest to explore new frontiers
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Ideal for children aged 3+
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Pick up a trail booklet at our visitor centre
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£2 per booklet, no booking required
Profits from events support our global and national plant research and conservation programmes.
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Trinity Artist Sarah Knox Exhibits Locally Trinity artist Sarah Knox is delighted to be exhibiting from Sunday 21 April at one of her favourite Newhaven haunts - Porto and Fi Café Bistro. Sarah is an established painter and printmaker based at Beaverhall Studios and teaches art part-time at St George’s School for Girls. Sarah’s Lyrical Landscapes are inspired by the spirit of place, and explore the poetry of dissolving form, atmosphere and light. To capture those ephemeral moments, Sarah is out in all weathers with her golden lab Bonnie - plein air sketching and making immediate responses to the landscape. Back in the studio, watercolour studies refine the subtleties of colour. These beginnings are developed in oil on canvas layering glazes over opaques, while using pure pigment (bought in an amazing shop in Venice) to intensify colour. Sarah exhibits in the UK and Europe, and recently she represented Scotland in the Fabriano in Acquarello 2018 international watercolour exhibition. Her work received critical acclaim at Pittenweem Arts Festival 2018: ‘Marrying oil paint’s depth of hue with watercolour-style fluidity, Sarah Knox’s impressionistic paintings and prints gorgeously conjure coastal and mountain vistas, often of the Highlands and Hebrides...’ The Scotsman, Pittenweem Arts Festival 2018
The exhibition opens on Easter Sunday 6.30 – 8.30pm with extra works on show, and then during normal opening hours at Porto and Fi, 47 Newhaven Main Street. Instagram @knox_s
Sarah Knox Artist Facebook
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Emotional Spring Cleaning – Detachment By Gillian Dalgliesh Emotions have a lot to do with our interpretation of an event. Emotional reasoning takes place when we assume something is true because of the way we feel, when in reality, the truth could be very different. While there is nothing wrong with noticing and recognising your emotions, they can also distract us from objective and neutral interpretations of life and can take us off on a repetitive negative thought cycle that can be emotionally destructive. It can be difficult to learn how to control emotions, however, it is a simple life truth, and very empowering to acknowledge that: “You choose what you think, you choose how you think You choose what you feel, you choose how you feel” Please take a moment to consider what you perceive to be a negative situation you are experiencing in your life just now. How does it make you feel? Negative? Sad? Overwhelmed? Powerless? Question yourself – Is it because you are choosing to feel that way? Very often conditioning, social experience, learned behaviours, beliefs, peer pressure, etc cause us to feel that if something negative occurs in our lives that after the initial reactive state we are likely to continue to feel this way for some time – until “we get over it”. Or perhaps it is an ongoing situation with ups and downs. It can become a hamster wheel of accepted negative emotional states of being that are not beneficial – emotionally, physically, psychologically, physiologically, mentally, energetically or spiritually. However, you are not your emotions. It is your thoughts that lead to emotions and here is a useful tactic to help you learn emotional detachment and control your emotions. Try imagining thoughts as passengers on a bus. You are the driver on the bus and just as you put the key in the ignition, your passengers begin to tell you that you shouldn’t drive the bus as you are a terrible driver, that you may get them all lost or have an accident … oh and by the way, you’re looking really old and fat in that driver’s uniform. If you let the passenger rile you, they are in control and you aren’t. Learn to see your thoughts as passengers on a bus – tune them out and focus on the job at hand – driving. In most situations emotional detachment involves taking action without allowing all the thoughts in your head to constantly distract and upset you. Just remember, your emotions are passengers on a bus that can’t interfere with your purpose. Change Your Mind, Change Your Life! See adjacent contact details for more information on managing life’s challenges and how hypnotherapy can turbo boost healthy & sustainable positive change.
Are you struggling to deal with issues in your life? Weight Loss? Anxiety? Stress? Smoking? Phobias? Alcohol? Confidence? If so, then hypnotherapy may be the solution. Find out more about my holistic approach to resolving client’s issues on my website www.gilliandalgliesh.com or call me on 07593 082 349 for a free consultation 31
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Reading To Expand The Mind By Tracy Griffen It’s amazing how much you can learn from the local library. I use the online catalogue search to reserve books that are recommended to me. That way, I always have something interesting to read. The human brain is fascinating and one of my favourite subjects to research. Here are some of my favourite (non fiction) mind-expanding titles for you: In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction: Gabor Maté First published over a decade ago, this is a revolutionary approach to why some people get hooked on certain things. Is there such thing as an ‘addictive personality’? How can childhood trauma affect decision-making in an adult? Fascinating reading.
good writer, and this is a light-hearted look at a serious subject. Her second book was all about Joy, just to balance things out... When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing: Daniel H Pink I first encountered Pink when I read his book on selling. It’s all about timing apparently, and this book is all about time. When is the best time to start exercising, when is the best time quit something and what about the middle bit?
Off the Clock: Feel Less Busy While Getting More Done: Laura Vanderkam Time management guru Vanderkam was on the ‘Further Reading’ section of ‘When’ (Daniel H Pink book above). Many of us juggle many responsibilities and are Cheer Up Love: Adventures in Depression ‘superbusy’. But how can you still have with the Crab of Hate: Susan Calman a life? For fitness, how to fit in exercise to a hectic routine an important point of You might know Glaswegan comedian consideration. I use a lot of the approaches Susan Calman from her stint on Strictly mentioned in this book... And breathe. Come Dancing. Calman is also a pretty
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Spark Joy: An Illustrated Guide to the Japanese Art of Tidying: Marie Kondo Spoiler alert: put everything in a big pile and see what ‘sparks joy’. The book itself is a lovely thing to behold. It helped me initiate a big clear-out and make more space and has clear easy-to-follow guidance. Positively Primal: Finding Health and Happiness in a Hectic World: Emma Woolf I love the cover of this book. The message about living more simply is a valuable one. If we drove less, walked more, disconnected from the web, got out into nature and ate healthy food, of course we will feel better... Rebel Talent: Why it Pays to Break the Rules at Work and in Life: Francesca Gino My favourite read from the last year, ‘disruptors’ are becoming mainstream, and the value of individualism is stronger now than ever before. But how can you harness your inner rebel? And why? Personal Trainer Tracy Griffen runs a fitness studio just off Leith Walk and is fascinated by the effect of exercise on the brain. See adjacent ad.
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Community Spotlight THE SINGING GROUPS @ INVERLEITH & NW EDINBURGH FOR PEOPLE WITH DEMENTIA & THEIR CARER(S) The Inverleith Group has been running since June 2010 meeting at 2.00 pm on the 1st and 3rd Thursday of each month. We currently meet at Inverleith St Serf’s Church Hall on Clark Road, Edinburgh. The NW Edinburgh Group started in May 2018 and meet on the 1st and 3rd Wednesday of the month at Drylaw Parish Church The group is for people with dementia, and their carers, who still live at home in the community. Research has indicated that people with dementia leave singing groups ‘on a high’ and this positive mood can last for some time after each session. This is also good for the well being of the carer. The group come together to sing with emphasis on enjoyment and fun. Volunteers are on hand but those with dementia should be accompanied. There is no charge for attending the Singing Sessions, but a donation for refreshments is appreciated. The group meet for coffee and conversation at first, giving people a chance to socialise. Support is also available from volunteers and other families. When singing begins, we sit in a circle ensuring that everyone is equal and not identified by their illness. We then sing along together for around 45 minutes, led by ‘music volunteers’. The group was started by a small number of individuals who understood the importance of music and singing with people with Dementia. All our Volunteers undergo Dementia Awareness Training. For further information, please contact : INVERLEITH GROUP - Sheila Hardie 551 1229, Kate Walker 554 4940 NW EDINBURGH GROUP - Rosemary King 554 7621, Linda Rosborough 467 3399,
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