David Jamieson from the City of Edinburgh City Council talks through the progress of the Edinburgh Thriving Green Spaces project, as he takes a stroll through nature.

There’s no shortage of evidence that parks have been a lifeline for people through Covid-19, offering space for daily exercise when we were allowed out just once a day (remember those bleak days, when the sun shone and spring dazzled?), and then as a great place for socially distanced meet ups when we were freed to do so.