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Category: Arts

  • Drones

    Last weekend while Paul was embarking on Project Gate Paint, I went to the end of our road (seriously) to capture some images of the wild flowers planted there by the Fife Parks & Rec people.   They were busy buzzing with bumble* bees and are such a lovely sight to behold.  We drove to Cellardyke…

  • A Walk in the Park

    Pollok park in Glasgow to be precise, where Paul and I went to join a five mile sponsored walk in aid of Parkinson’s UK last Sunday.   If you have missed my mumbled appeals for sponsorship you can still support us by clicking on this link. We’d never been here before so we went across to…

  • Auld Lang Syne

    We twa hae paidl’t in the burn, From morning sun till dine; But seas between us braid hae roar’d Sin auld lang syne. That is my favourite verse from Burns’ poem, a masterpiece which is still being sung around the world as I type.  I have just been looking at comments on Facebook and I…

  • Triskaidekaphobia

    …which will be blindingly clear if you have watched the Dr Who 50th anniversary episode. So, I was talking about the Kelpies and did I not find this beautiful picture on the Twitters, chap in Tullibody is a keen photographer, as evidenced. Elsewhere, we played another gig for the Mincers last night.   On the…

  • Statuesque

    Back to Northumberland we tootled, this time to Slaley Hall, to swoon once more at the autumn colours, and spend a lot of time talking.  Noted redwing and song thrush feeding voraciously in the rowan tree outside our bedroom window. On the Wednesday we went our separate ways, Paul to a star camp in Galloway…

  • Post, equinoxial

    As sweet and musical As bright Apollo’s lute, strung with his hair; And when Love speaks, the voice of all the gods Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony. Love’s Labour’s Lost (4.3.289-292) Shakespeare   Thanks to Poppy Lee for that quote and please have a look at her website, she’s a genius.   The trouble with being…

  • Murmur

    If you have never followed this link before, why not do it now?    

  • Ars longa, vita brevis

    Had one of Kirsty’s famous wee hiatuses there, back now and wouldn’t you know it, it’s festival time, both here in Fife, and to a lesser extent in Edinburgh.  We bought a picture at the Aberdour Festival whilst catching up with chums.   We plunged into the fringe last weekend and then had to commune with…

  • Braw Day

    So, here we were in Aberdour today, on a bike ride (him) a long walk (me), and attending the opening of the new Harbour Art Gallery, down by the harbour, as one may guess.  Sunshine, people outside in shorts and dresses, shaking their heads in disbelief as the mirk is pulled away, as if by…

  • Banking on it

    Nothing new has happened.  This is a Good Thing, there was far too much new stuff earlier on this year.  Although we have been away, to glorious Perthshire (Blair Atholl with the Mincers and Dunkeld by ourselves) and to London.  I think we maybe pushed the envelope until it burst when we went to the…