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I'm a self-employed jewellery e-tailer. I ramble randomly about creativity, wildlife, peace, politics, herstory, history, myths, the Scottish landscape, stone circles, discoveries and *stuff*. I like to dance like no-one is watching, even when they are. M
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Worrying decline at Isle of May Puffin site
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Decline at biggest UK puffin siteRegular readers will know that I am a regular visitor to the Scottish Seabird Centre where I enjoy getting up close with the bird colonies ...
Crow King
...Crow is raucous and I look up to see what the fuss is about today. A black shape slinks off the fence and under the Sparrow Bush sending the sparrows into a panic. Crow and Magpie dance up onto Ske...
Glimpsing Spring
I've covered a fare bit of ground over the past week really. My folks took us over to Lomond Shores which is basically a shopping centre at one end of Loch Lomond. It wasn't as awful as it might sound...
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 influe...
Romancing The Stone
Can you tell the difference between these two pictures?They are both pictures of the Bass Rock, an extinct volcanic plug, which rises from the Firth of Forth just off the coast of North Berwick. Regul...
City Life
Arthur's SeatIt never ceases to tickle me that I can look at this standing in the middle of a city :) and this week @ and I have been taking advantage of the unseasonal weather and wandering about in ...
This sumer I....
... exhibited Art at Filosofgangen Gallery in Odense, Denmark: ... visited New Hampshire... ...where I was kissed by a butterfly... ... ate the biggest ice-cream sundae I have ever seen - the Swamp...
See Birds!!
Suspecting disappointment, we decided to abandon an attempt to sample the Hovercraft. We felt time would be better spent making our way out to North Berwick to take advantage of our new membership at ...
Puffling Hunting
Bass Rock, Firth of Forth10am saw the arrival of the Parental Units and the Prodigal Sister (mine this week). Yes, there was a reason for the busy-busy Saturday - parental visits in quick succession a...
What goes around comes around
I just have to share this! I'm an Aeberdeen quine so I am familiar with the brass neck of the gulls of the Granite City. The street my folks live on usually has one seagull "chick" each year and woe b...
Not hovering
Grey HeronThe best days are sometimes the ones that don't resemble the plan at all...The plan was to lend our support to the two week trial of a new Forth crossing - taking the hovercraft from Portobe...
One Hundred
To mark my one hundredth post to this blog I was going to post a list of one hundred things I want to do before I die - but so far I've only written down 86. I'm not sure what that says about me... ei...