Refreshments will be served. The AGM will follow and then the speaker, Mitchell Mansell, will talk about Robert Louis Stevenson in the Garden – His Love of Gardens  during his Edinburgh Childhood'.

All the usual thrills, spills, intrigue, romance, passion and suspense but with an added twist ... STARTING EARLIER THAN USUAL (7pm), City of Edinburgh Council's Mike Penny will detail the Council's recent trial of containerised refuse solutions and seagull-proof rubbish bags.

This public meeting wil update locals on the review by subgroups, and launch the Local Community Plan, 2011–14. A start will be made on addressing the next 3 years' main priority: reducing the amount of mess on the streets.

Monthly meeting. Eric J. Graham will talk about 'Kidnap, Coercion and Ransom'. All welcome. Non-members entry £2.

A public meeting to discuss possible reopening of Abbeyhill Station as part of the Edinburgh–Glasgow Improvement Programme. Speaker: David Boyce of Network Rail.

Following on from last year's successful 'Bags of Style' event, this year Drummond CHS staff and students are looking for donations of all types of scarves to sell. On the night, there will be raffles, scarf tying demonstrations, and the Fairtrade Safari Café.

See the work of local artists based in Stockbridge, and enjoy delicious refreshments at the Fairtrade Safari Café (raising funds for a trip by Drummond CHS students to Muthambi Boys and Girls Schools in June 2012).

See the work of local, Stockbridge-based artists, and enjoy great refreshments at the Fairtrade Safari Café in aid of Drummond CHS's Kenya Partnership Group (raising funds for a trip to Muthambi Boys and Girls Schools in June 2012). NOTE: This even runs on Saturday and Sunday.

Monthly meeting (first of the new year) to discuss Environment, Transport, Licensing, Planning and other matters of local interest.All welcome.

Your chance to combine architectural curiosity with naked nosiness. Details will follow shortly.