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Robert Burns's 'To a midge' 22 Aug 2013 | 04:46 pm
Very exciting! Whilst work on the new sunhouse addition to the 100 years old Kirkhill House was proceeding, the builders discovered a piece of paper handwritten with what could be (or could not be) an...
Less power to the fracking people 17 Aug 2013 | 01:34 pm
Much heat and light of late about this thing termed (courtesy of the ever more power huingry USA) 'fracking'.Fracking is short for fracturing the rock bed on which our island nation rests along with a...
Yes we can (control ourselves) 12 Aug 2013 | 07:26 pm
Headline news the other day: NEW BABY BOOM - big population increase. This was portrayed almost unanimously by the media as something to be marvelled at for all the right reasons. I am a member of the...
A personal Shakespearean biography 8 Aug 2013 | 03:58 pm
Normal 0 false false false All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players: They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts bei...
Fast Water (3) 5 Aug 2013 | 05:56 pm
So here's the third and last Fast Water. It's an oil on 700x700cm canvas ... ... and here are all three together...
Untitled 4 Aug 2013 | 01:04 pm
Afew days ago I blogged my latest oil painting and wrote that ... "I call this painting Fast Water (1) Why the (1)? Becaise I became fascinated by the power and movement, by the interplay of light and...
Beauty and the electrical beast 30 Jul 2013 | 01:45 pm
After a more thanusually trying visit to Raigmore Hospital we were driving back across the Highlands yesterday. We had been busily slandering the people who think it right to erect giant electricity p...
Fast water (1) 29 Jul 2013 | 12:06 pm
Over this weekend I set out to try to capture in oils on a 70 x 70cm canvas the extreme natural testing of a salmon running upstream to his or her 'redd' (shallow, gravelly breeding place). This is as...
Shakespeare and Burns - chapter five 23 Jul 2013 | 12:32 pm
Normal 0 false false false Scene five or Chapter five in which our poets re-explore the element from which came all of life on earth There is this mighty, wondrous orchestra. Down on the seabed...
There was a tide. 22 Jul 2013 | 12:41 pm
I've just watched a documentary film on TV, title: The Spirit of '45' . I would highly recommend it, not only for its clear and apolitical objectivity but because it could have a direct bearing on wha...
