Monday I was lucky enough to visit Oloroso on Castle Street, Edinburgh. The restaurant boasts one of Edinburgh’s finest roof top views and chef Tony Singh who is a member of the Slow Food Chef Alliance in partnership with Highland Park has been celebrating Slow Food Week (18th -24th June).
This watercolour sketch shows my main course of Shetland Lamb, with soft rosemary polenta, which was absolutely delicious.
Slow Food UK was created in the 80’s to counter the idea of ‘fast food’ and what that meant to our daily lives. By providing more information about how food is produced and where it comes from the organisation encourages customers to think more about the implications of the choices they make about the food on their plates. For more information click HERE
Yesterday the family and I visited the Out of the Blue Drill Hall, our first visit to this former military building now arts centre in Leith.
Providing artists studios, rehearsal and performance areas, exhibition spaces and a cafe the space has a happy community feel, and is vital for Edinburgh’s art scene. We were there to see the Arts Market, which gives the artists of Out of the blue a chance to sell their creations and meet the public. There were some great illustrators on show, a couple I particularly liked were Jennifer Boxall-Gray‘s lovely birds, and Rosie Walters‘ cityscapes.
I got the watercolours out yesterday for a little lunchtime sketching. It’s great to use the paints outside, quite nervy though, you think everyone is watching!
I was looking for crocus’s, I had heard they were out but there are none to be found near Holyrood Palace. So instead this sketch and watercolour of the Radical Road, one of the routes up Arthur’s Seat in Holyrood Park.
I took the children for a stroll along the front yesterday afternoon. Even with the sea breeze it was milder than I had expected. We walked from Granton Harbour to Newhaven, and sat by the moored up boats while the twins drank their milk.
The winds did pick up as the sun went down and the boats began to sway from side to side on the swell.
The temperature began to drop so we decided to head home. As I tucked in James and Zoe I wished I had a cosy pram to climb into myself!
The sketch is black ink pen, with a watercolour wash added later.
@ArmedForces_Day yesterday and today too. We were at Holyrood and espite the downpours the crowds turned out in large numbers to see military displays, tornado flyovers and a large display of vehicles, including this helicopter and a number of dessert armoured trucks.
There was lots for the kids too, with climbing walls, inflatable assault courses and even sumo westling suits. If you didn’t get yesterday then head along this afternoon, it sounds a noisy one with a ‘pipes and drums’ parade from the Castle to Holyrood Park and then a ‘battle of the bands’ show.
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Monday I was lucky enough to visit Oloroso on Castle Street, Edinburgh. The restaurant boasts one of Edinburgh’s finest roof top views and chef Tony Singh who is a member of the Slow Food Chef Alliance in partnership with Highland Park has been celebrating Slow Food Week (18th -24th June).
Yesterday the family and I visited the 
I got the watercolours out yesterday for a little lunchtime sketching. It’s great to use the paints outside, quite nervy though, you think everyone is watching!
I took the children for a stroll along the front yesterday afternoon. Even with the sea breeze it was milder than I had expected. We walked from Granton Harbour to Newhaven, and sat by the moored up boats while the twins drank their milk.