Posts Tagged ‘Life with’
Life with Edinburgh Zoo: ‘I grew up watching Animal Planet. Sometimes I wish I was Doctor Dolittle’
Zookeeper at The Royal Zoological Society of Scotland’s (RZSS) Edinburgh Zoo, Natalie Booth, on growing up watching Animal Planet and her love of training animals. I always knew I wanted to work with animals. I watched a lot of Animal Planet with my grandad when I was young. I think I settled on wanting…
Read MoreLife with The National Trust for Scotland: ‘I travel all over Scotland as a plant detective’
Inventory Officer on the PLANTS (Plant Listing at the National Trust for Scotland) project, Charlotte Bottone talks about surveying thousands of Scotland’s plants and what you can do in your own garden to help often forgotten about species. I normally get to work between 8 and 8.30am. I start the day by planning which area…
Read MoreLife with Forestry and Land Scotland: ‘People would be amazed at the nature that lives in their gardens’
Environment manager for Forestry and Land Scotland, Colin Edwards, spends more time in nature than most. He talks to us about his passion for macrophotography and shining a light on the ‘ugly’ creatures. I took up photography at school, but in those days the cameras used films and were built like tanks. At one…
Read MoreLife with the Wallace Monument: ‘Braveheart is still a huge draw, even after 30 years it has an impact everyday’
Visitor Experience Assistant Sally Jeffrey on climbing the 246 steps of the Wallace Monument everyday and her devastation after climate change protesters attacked the Wallace Sword. I get to work just before 9am. I shuttle all the staff up on the bus and we get ready to start the day. I am an odd…
Read MoreLife with the RNLI: ‘It’s always been part of my family, now I am on the crew with my dad’
For the Burgon family saving lives at sea is in their DNA. For more than 140 years, generations of their family have volunteered for the RNLI. It began with fisherman Peter Burgon who served on the crew of the Berwick lifeboat, and for a time at Eyemouth lifeboat, from 1876. His son William followed in…
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