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I’m here for your great stories that inspire my art and poems. Library. Museum and Art Gallery Trustee. https://youtu.be/ywWmlWEcTA8?si=fceRxsJv8W19xZb6
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Isle of Rùm

Iona

Are you going to Scotland ‘s ‘must visit’ exhibition of the year ‘Macbeth’ at Perth Museum? Opens tomorrow!! I wrote this in anticipation youtu.be/wllPOiXN9pY?...

Though it demands damp knees and a bowed back, there is quiet reward in stooping low, where yellow primroses bloom like sunlit relics and the soil breathes its secrets beneath our tread.

‘Red Hot Pokers’

A question for Scotland on #earthday substack.com/@tairmuir/no...

“Oak before Ash’

‘Noctilucent’

Britan’s largest retailer who pays no retail rates.

The Breakfast Room

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There are gazillions of podcasts out now but this one was good with @alancumming.bsky.social

I love how this arable field intertwines with the trees on the edge of the woods at St Madoes below the braes of Gowrie. The yellow oil flowers brought out the purples in the bark for me.

Mill Of Montague #perthshire

Gairloch #scotland

If you buy a new holiday park home you pay VAT and the government takes 20% on day one. So if you want to sell it back you will lose that and depreciation. #holidayhomesMisSold

#errol #perthshire #mardie

The "not proven" verdict in Scotland, which allows a jury to state that they don't believe there is sufficient evidence to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, was first used in the trial of Carnegie of Finhaven for the murder of the Earl of Strathmore in 1728 youtu.be/Jkva-2l9rqY?...

‘Road to Pitlowie’ #glendoick #perthshire #art I’ve painted this one very loose. I'd be interested in your opinion?

‘Islands on the Edge’ #Luskentyre. #harris #OuterHebrides. #art #scotland

Does Wicks know peacock feathers indoors is unlucky?

‘Gowrie Orchard’

Has anybody written a book about the mutation of the Myxomatosis virus into humans?

‘The Mighty Oak’ oils My neigbour’s tree blew over in a winter storm and is in the process of being cut up on the edge of his oil-seed field that isn't quite in full bloom.

‘The Bull Calf’ oils (note to self:- practice merging grass with feet)

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‘Sidlaw Spring’ I’ve re-posted this as I've gone back to it to do more.

‘Crail Harbour’

Libraries are a books+ community youtu.be/Hr0LKzFb_KU?...

‘Springtime at Huntingtower’