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Spinally tapped
Another evening at Pilates, another well stretched me. We had a very interesting weekend with our friend Rieko, from Tokyo. Saturday: National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh; Meadows walk; Burrell Collection, Pollok Park, Glasgow; then home for a gourmet Japanese meal. Sunday: The Kelpies, Falkirk; the new exhibition at the field of the Battle of Bannockburn;…
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Thought for the Day
Here’s a thing, and you might want to finish your breakfast first. I make it my business to visit and evaluate ladies’ loos the world over. Current most interesting – the ones in the St. Petersburg food market. Tip topper most, our own, with calming colour scheme, decent selection of reading material, digital radio*, Ecover…
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Finchley Park
They’re back ! Not a sign of them last year and previous excitement proved fruitless as the depletion of the Nyger seeds turned out to be directly attributable to the chaffinches. But – photographic evidence was obtained yesterday. It’s from a dreadful angle since speed was of the essence. Oh and if you have already…
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Scottish Serenade
Pretty short on updates, spent my birthday weekend at Blair Atholl with After 8 Mince, the groupies, Yard of Ale, On the Wagon, Dalgety Bay Folk Club and some very hard working hotel staff. Then a whizz up to the Highland Wildlife Park to see the red pandas, the wolverine, the capercaillie (finally) and the…
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Weather to Fly*
I haven’t put up any pictures, even of birds, for at least a week. So here goes then. A shot from the American football match we attended recently, some crafty handiwork at Vane Farm RSPB Loch Leven and the old man of Benarty viewed through bat-vision. From the coastal path yesterday, a lean mean carrion…