Freelance journalist- food, drink, travel and sustainability - NCTJ trained + MSc. in Gastronomy. Usually cooking or eating. (she/her)
Leith, via Glenfinnan
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Ailsa Sheldon retweeted
King Charles charges this RNLI lifeboat station to launch its boat because he owns the beach. And they’re not the only charity he’s rinsing
(Location: Sennen Cove, Cornwall)
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
£600 a year across 6 sites is a “peppercorn rent”: a small amount legally required to create a lease and therefore give rights to tenants. It is usually asked for by the tenant not the landlord, as tenants’ rights are worth far more than £100. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peppercor…
Ailsa Sheldon retweeted
The contrast in weather created by better temperatures forms a wall of fog in the middle of the bridge, as drivers hit the sunshine on the Queensferry Crossing on Friday
𝘐𝘔𝘈𝘎𝘌: @Gogsy
Ailsa Sheldon retweeted
This #NationalFoodBankDay support @EdinburghFoodSocial to...
🧑🍳teach children essential cooking skills
🍴ensure those in food poverty have access to nutritious local food
🌱equip young people to lead healthy, happy lives
Take action + donate today➡️ edinburghfoodsocial.org
Delighted to be in The Guardian today.
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Ailsa Sheldon retweeted
30% children living in poverty
Millions using food banks
Hospital waiting times quadrupled
Not enough GPs or dentists
Catastrophic housing shortage
Rivers full of shit
PM & wife's income rose by £122m in last year, so yes, UK is a better place to live ... for the Sunak family
Ailsa Sheldon retweeted
If you are over 8 years old and live in EH7 come down to Restalrig Lochend Community Hub today and support @leithacademy we are raising money for @LeithcreativeA1 thanks to @RippleProject participatory budgeting LCR Stands Up – at Edinburgh, Scotland
Ailsa Sheldon retweeted
"Let's just park the assumption that women only like whisky in cocktails."
For World Whisky Day, @ailsajms1 calls last orders on outdated stereotypes.
@OurWhiskyOWF
Ailsa Sheldon: So many women drink and work in whisky - why do they still face sexism?
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New work in The Times today, writing about West Sweden's relaxed Koster islands.
@visitsweden
@WestSwedenTB
@timestravel
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If you're looking at taking the Edinburgh-London sleeper and think a seat might be fine. No, it's not. It's really not. Seats barely budge if at all, lights don't go out and it's freezing. Looks nice, that's it. @CalSleeper
Happy Valentine's Day! I'm in The Guardian today writing about making our own wedding rings in the Cairngorms ❤️
More than a Highland fling: making wedding rings on a romantic Scottish holiday theguardian.com/travel/2024/…
Ailsa Sheldon retweeted
Around 20 of the 44 houses in Harbour Street, Plockton have been empty this January.
Presently there are 46 empty houses in the main village.
My last travel piece of the year, a visit to The Three Chimneys on Skye ❤️
BEST OF SCOTLAND
The Scottish island where there is a 'wonderful' welcome in winter
heraldscotland.com/life_styl…
Ailsa Sheldon retweeted
Seeing as we're on about Michelle Mone, here's my bit on abolishing the House of Lords.
Lord Baron Palmer has spoken 14 times since 1990: once to suggest recolonising Zimbabwe, once to tell us he ate a “perfectly edible” biscuit that was 20 years old. heraldscotland.com/opinion/2…
