Holly Ennis
Nothing work-related. Mostly books, and Edinburgh.
- This is a good challenge - and kind of a beautiful way to celebrate Edinburgh’s Victorian baths www.edinburghleisure.co.uk/victorian-po...
- From Knowable Magazine: How scientists recreate historical scents | Knowable Magazine knowablemagazine.org/content/arti... Audience
- Happy St Brigid’s day/Imbolc! First snowdrops outside 🙂
- Cycling infrastructure ‘paired with low emission zones, pedestrianized streets, school street programs and a broader shift to people-first public space. The result wasn’t just cleaner air - it was a city where daily life became healthier, calmer and more human’
- “Paris, long known for traffic jams and crowded boulevards, has rapidly transformed into a city defined by bikes. In just five years, cycling’s modal share in the French capital has more than doubled, rising from 5% to 11%…This surge didn’t happen by accident…” via @momentummag.bsky.social
- All this, yes and we will still also need more to cope with the demand now and projected: expanded trams, bike infrastructure, integration across the system with buses and trains.
- Closing out January with the Giant Lanterns @edinburghzoo.bsky.social which was pretty magical. I really liked the underwater theme - and the mixing in of the fantastical (I will always love a kraken)
- First read down in a new year reading challenge (‘classics I never got around to, that aren’t Henry James’) and Wuthering Heights is 1st because I wanted to watch the Robbie/Elordi film. Not at all what I expected! Always thought this was a gothic romance/brooding shadow daddy redeemed tale: nope.
- Now desperately seeking sleep in the Caledonian Sleeper seating section - all my hopes resting on a large camomile tea
- Last but not least a ticket high up in the gods to see Arthur Miller’s All My Sons with a pretty stellar cast. Loved it.
- Next up was the Tate Britain’s Lee Miller retrospective. Absolutely packed which made it a little tricky to navigate (and I was lucky enough to see the incredible Miller and Penrose exhibition at the Scottish Modern in 2001). Her Egyptian photos remain some of my favourites.
- Marie Antoinette Style at the V&A London was fabulous - clothing and textiles, jewelry and ephemera that beautifully told the stories behind her fashion over time and the impact that it had
- Calm start to the day, and a view across London’s Docklands
- This is a beautiful book and well worth a read. Deceptively simple - based around the most asked questions put to Hédi Fried during school talks - it is thought provoking and as relevant today as ever
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- Having a lovely #BurnsNight - an afternoon ceilidh, a Burn’s supper (veggie haggis & cranachan) and a Glenrothes Speyside single malt 🏴
- I enjoyed this - Anne Higonnet’s Liberty,Equality & Fashion about revolutionary post-Terror French fashions told through the stories of three extraordinary women: Joséphine Bonaparte, Térézia Tallien & Juliette Récamier. A good analysis of their motivations, and the backlash.
- A damp walk along the Water of Leith to @nationalgalleries.bsky.social Modern One for some much needed colour
- Marmalade time
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- Been a day. Sometimes a late night stomp through the rain, and a glass of wine with a book is the way to deal.
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- Attempted a pizza run - fair to say I made the crust a little thin and the toppings came out a little small
- Home time in Edinburgh, and light in the sky
- Galette des Rois for Epiphany - two gold crowns for two queens as always, and a fève that looks … suspiciously like a football
- Finding cats at every turn, using up book tokens, and being nosy about a booksellers to-do list (what IS going on in the teen/growing up shelf?!)
