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Blooming Colour

The sunshine was hot and the colours are everywhere. Each year this tree just explodes with blossoms and I love the colour, especially the way it contrasts against today's blue sky. I wonder if I can find yarn in those shades...In Holyrood Park there was much colour to be found and we walked up to Dunsapie Loch, around Dunsapie Crag and then meandered our way down through the woods...My eye was caught by the colour and texture of these larch leaves. It's good to see the larch trees going green ... read more

New Jewellery for Spring at Taexalia

I know I don't normally do this here, but what the hell - this has been my creative output this week.It would feel more fulfilling if this was a post full of polymer clay things I made myself but I just can't get stuck-in on that front. So I've been creatively shopping and adding to the pewter and silver Pagan/Celtic/Hippy Jewellery.Getting new stock online involves a long-haul of photography, editing pictures, uploading pictures, writing blurbs, pricing, doing the eBay listing thing (oh for ... read more

Thank You

Laughter is fleetingas the storm clouds loomand my shoulders sagBut it's laughter nonethelessthat you charm out of meand the darkness liftsNot for you do I needto be a perfect womanalways smiling in the sunshineNot for you do I needto have every situationlickedWhen all I have is nothingand my tears blend with the rainyou keep holding onFor you'll be therewhen I'm under black cloudsnot just on sunny ... read more

Interesting

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/highlands_and_islands/7358315.stm"Plans to construct one of Europe's largest onshore wind farms has been refused by the Scottish Government... It said Lewis Wind Power's (LWP) 181-turbines for Lewis on the Western Isles did not comply with European law protecting sensitive environments... The scheme had the backing of the local authority and business, but attracted almost 11,000 objections...."So the Scottish Government has stepped in to protect an SPA ... read more

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Blogaversary

I realised this week that I have been blogging for two years - today is my blogaversary. I remember when I first set up my blog I had this sense of writing into a void, of not having a clue what to say. I wasn't even sure what the point of blogging was and whether it was something I really wanted to do. Two years on I have come to accept the ebb and flow of my blog productivity/inconsistency and I try not to feel obligated to produce something - sometimes I just have nothing to post, sometimes ... read more

Highlands and Islands In a Week part 6

And now returning to the Highlands and Islands trip - I had meant to finish the tale before now!On the Thursday we watched the weather reports with dismay as almost all the Isles were sporting wee clouds with rain or snow symbols. It didn't look good for walking or touring or anything really. But we set off anyway with a vague plan to try and spot some dolphins or seals. We passed Inverness and crossed the Kessock Bridge and took a quick stop of at North Kessock. The tide was going out though, ... read more

When you feel down, go up

I awoke this morning feeling depressed and harbouring a sense of dread that today will resemble yesterday. The only positive thing about my waking was that I awoke by myself without any outside influences. I lay there dreading the idea of trying to write, or think, or paint, or do anything creative and being repeatedly disturbed by unpredictable, unwelcome interruptions.It is not good or healthy to wake up feeling like that, it doesn't exactly move the day forward, so just for today I put my ... read more

The Night I Met a Hollywood Legend

I found the poster! It's actually from "Blighty" magazine.Ink smudging courtesy of Mr Heston himself.I don't normally do celebrity commentary but this morning I've read the news that Charlton Heston died and I am remembering the evening I spent with him.It was Aberdeen in the late 80s and I went to His Majesty's Theatre with my Mum to see a touring production of A Man For All Seasons, Charlton Heston was The Star. The performance was excellent but what I remember most is that afterwards we went ... read more

Single White Female?

During some recent browsing and surfing, I happened across a couple of blogs discussing the concept of having a "blog stalker". Apparently a blog stalker is a person who reads without commenting, usually a person unknown to the blogger. The blogger sees the visitor in their traffic stats and feels uneasy. "Who is that person from *insert location that shows in stats* who logs onto my blog 10 times a day, reads it more than I do and never says "hello"??"I think it's a bit melodramatic to label ... read more