#visit 11

Visit 11 - Interesting activities. 

During visit 11 I noticed someone throwing a large stick-like object around so I went to have a chat with him. I didn’t have any consent forms with me at the time so unfortunately I couldn’t interview about the meadows but I did get the opportunity to find out what he was doing. Turns out he is training to be a fire performer and he was practising some of his moves with his staff. He told me he liked practising in the meadows because of the big open space which was much safer than his living room. 

I also noticed two people playing Frisbee which I didn’t think much of at the time but when I went over to speak to them I discovered that they were in the Edinburgh Ultimate Frisbee team. They also told me that they were practising in the meadows because Edinburgh University wouldn’t give them a space to practise like they do with other sports teams. 

Visit 11 - Monday 7th March, 2.30pm

People are using the grass! I hadn’t planned on doing a visit today but I thought since it was such a nice day that I might catch something interesting, and I was right. Today was the first day I saw anyone (besides dog - walkers) using the grass, and there were lots of them. There was some on there own relaxing, reading, writing and there were others in couples or groups socialising, all of which looked to be aged between 20 and 30 as far as I could see. 

There was however a whole range of age groups there today. The meadows seemed to be flooded with parents and grandparents out with children (all looking younger than 5). There were many cyclists out today understandably but interestingly there were only a couple runners. I expect that on a sunny day mid- afternoon it might actually not be so great running on the walkways of the meadows because you have to avoid so many people. Cyclists at least have the cycling routes that are meant for cycling on.