March & April 2026

Features

• Grow your own cottage garden this spring

• The renaissance of the clarsach 

• Muriel Spark’s Morningside inspiration 

• Saving Edinburgh’s beautiful churches 

• Peter Doig’s gift to the National Galleries of Scotland

• Haymarket & Dalry from above – in 1930 & 1993 

• Spring in Edinburgh – a city full of colourful blooms

• Not Proven! – but was Bertha Merrett murdered in 1926?

• ‘Indian Peter’ – the character, responsible for Edinburgh’s 1763 ‘Penny Post’ 

• Doug Corrance’s Edinburgh
  

Society

• Lord Provost’s Burns Supper at Prestonfield House 

• Edinburgh & District Burns Club Association celebrates the birth of The Bard 

• Oyster Club Burn’s Supper at the Royal Scots Club

• Prestonfield House hosts Burns Supper in aid of Prostate Scotland 

Food, drink and eating out

• Lunch at Eve’s Court at Papple

• Dinner at Cardinal on Eyre Place

• Haze on the Shore, Twelve Triangles in Stockbridge, Australian Wine Festival 
  

What’s On

• 10 fun and interesting things to do this spring