Gude Cause March

A wonderful day - the friendliest march I have ever been part of - it's not often people step of the pavements and join it.

A selection of images ....

A beautiful banner from the Scottish Society of Women Artists

Needs no caption!

Wonderfully constructed banner from Edinburgh City Museums

Quite a lot of young people involved including a well organised group petitioning for Votes at 16.

African Women forming an alliance with a piper.

Three friends and I enjoying wearing our sashes.

Scottish Women's Aid had a strong contingent.

Many dressed to commemorate the 1909 march

Several bands with a variety of costumes made it a pleasure to march.













Many thanks to the organisers for all their hard work and congratulations for making is such a huge success.

Menie Liberation Front

The macDonald has received a tribute from the Menie Liberation Front in the form of masks over the faces of some of Scotland's most iconic statues.   You will have your own favorite, if you view the gallery of pictures.

I suppose that this harmless prank is meant to highlight the taking over our our heritage by the Trump Golf machine. 

The vote next Thursday, 1st October to stop Aberdeenshire agreeing to Trump's request to use compulsory purchase powers to acquire my constituent's properties is a key event.  Please do come to the Gordon Suite at the Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre and withness what my colleagues do.  The meeting starts at 10.15 am and Cllr Martin Ford's motion is the third item on the Agenda.

See STV news for a good summary of where we are.

Beachwatch 2009

I joined my kayak club for a beach clean today. The club has done this for a number of years at the same location and it is pleasing to report a reduction in the volume of litter collected.

Thanks for Rob for organising this again and to the team including a local fishing boat that turned out to work (and drink tea).


Marine litter is a problem. We picked up lots of small pieces of plastic which can be injested by animals. See Adopt a Beach for more information

Please do sign the petition asking for a government action plan to reduce marine litter at http://www.adoptabeach.org.uk/pages/beachwatch_petition.php

Gude Cause

GUDE CAUSE was formed to mark the 100th anniversary of the Women’s Suffrage Movement Procession along Princes Street in 1909. The culmination of this celebration will be a re-enactment of this march on 10th October 2009. However we hope that this will be the climax of a series of events in different parts of Scotland, not only to remember that event, but also to mark what has changed in the past century to improve women’s position in society and to draw attention to what still needs to be done.

I remember giving a lift to a delightful lady in my early days as a political worker and as she was struggling with getting out of the house into my car, I suggested she might want a postal vote in future. I was abashed when she told me that the votes for women had been hard fought for - and therefore the effort of going to the poll was well worth it.

So Edinburgh, Saturday 10th October, Bruntsfield Links - gather noon for 1pm start of march.

Anyone fancy joining me?

I have changed my blog colours in honour of Gude Cause to Purple, Green and White.