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Pound for pound
That's lb for £. Yes, look to the left sidebar and you will see two new widgets... One is the pounds off progress bar, and the other is the pounds on widget. That'll be pounds off me and pounds onto the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society bank balance. I need all the motivation I can get, and the whales and dolphins need all the support they can get. It's a marriage made in blubber. You can sponsor me for as little as £1, or as much as you like - and if you are a UK tax payer ... read more
Moray Firth Dolphins
Some of you may have followed the tales of my holiday week in the Highlands and Islands in March and our bad timing trying to catch sight of the dolphins. You may have read my recent post, Oily Thorn, which inspires me to imagine protective graffiti across the Kessock Bridge "They are Scotland's dolphins"..(note to everyone the only things I graffiti are sketchbooks, the occasional canvas and, with a little help, my skin)Well I have seen Orcas and Minke in the wild but I have yet to see a Moray ... read more
Oily Thorn
"It's Scotland's oil." This has long been a call to arms for nationalists in Scotland. I have even been known to mutter about the fact that Scotland is oft referred to as the only nation in the world to have struck oil and become poorer. I remember seeing graffiti as a youngster, I think it was on that railway bridge on the A96 that now has traffic lights (ye ken the een that has the 45 degree blin corner and sometimes a neddie in the field on the richt heading North?) - the graffiti said ... read more
Lone Pine Standing