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Japanese translation, lifting and planting bulbs and Boogie Woogie!
A surprise email this week from Kazu Sunaga in Japan. Kazu translated my 1996 book Teaching information skills in schools (See first photo below). We met up again last year at the IASL Conference in...
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Warm Xmas, turkey in brine, and ring out the old
Firstly, a Guid (good) New Year tae yin and aw (to one and all) and I hope that 2013 brings you all love, luck and laughter in droves. For the first time ever, my wife and I left the UK and had Xmas in...
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Weekly photo challenge – island
Here are my photos for this week’s challenge. Bass Rock covered with thousands of gannets Bass Rock covered with thousands of gannets Bass Rock from a frosty Seacliff Bass Rock through the tunnel at...
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Weekly photo challenge – zoom
My interpretation of zoom is the taking of close-up shots, so here are my responses to the zoom challenge. Lemon chicken dish Salpiglossis flower Double petunia Red, red rose Hungry kittiwake...
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Laurie Campbell, Bring up the Bodies and frosty mornings
On a recent visit to the Scottish Ornithologists’ Club in Aberlady, I was enthralled by the exhibition of photographs by Scottish wildlife photographer Laurie Campbell. The exhibition covers a range of...
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Sunshine and snow, air travel and Stag’s Leap
A delay inthe blog as we were in Dubai for a week, visiting our son Stuart, daughter in law Catherine and 15 month old twin granddaughters Abigail and Lola, who are now energetic bundles of fun. One of...
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Weekly photo challenge – action
Here are my photos for this week’s photo challenge - check out the others on Sue’s website. Our son Jonathan in action at the Dunbar 10 Mile Race Dunbar 10 Mile Race Diving gannets off Dunbar east...
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The road ahead, tulips and compass rose
Each week I send an email to people on my Wagga Wagga Road Runners distribution list, partly to forward results from the previous weekend and partly to keep list members aware of races going on in...
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Laptop, Paphos and Greek Cypriot wedding
No blog last week as a) my wife and I were on holiday in Cyprus and b) I left my laptop in security at Newcastle Airport. I was on the plane and about to go through photos when I discovered that my...
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Tim Wootton, country diary and Librivox
A new exhibition at the splendid SOC gallery in Aberlady features the work of wild life artist Tim Wootton. The exhibition shows a real craftsman at work, with the larger paintings providing a detailed...
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Weekly photo challenge – face
A bit late in the week but here are my suggestions for the topic face. See Sue’s website for many more examples. Reader in the Camposanto in Pisa The Camposanto or monumental graveyard in the Piazza...
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Weekly photo challenge – metallic
Here are my photos for this week’s challenge. See Sue’s website for lots more. Brazier and Tauranga sunset at my sister’s house Metal wheeled carriage seen at an old house near Wagga Wagga Sydney...
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Weekly photo challenge – Castle
Here are my suggestions for this week’s challenge. See Sue’s website for much, much more. Ruins of Dunbar Castle behind Dunbar harbour I live in Dunbar and the harbour is about 0.5 miles from my home....
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A word a week challenge – pink
Here are my photos for this week’s challenge. See many more excellent photos at http://suellewellyn2011.wordpress.com/2013/08/27/a-word-a-week-challenge-pink/ Busy Lizzie flower Delicate pink rose Pink...
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Orkney: Pubs, Bishop’s Palace, St Magnus Cathedral and Broch of Gurness
In Kirkwall, the main town in Orkney, there is a plethora of visitor attractions – the harbour, the tree lined streets, and pubs such as The Reel (great fiddle music) and The Bothy (lovely pint of...
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Blog up and running again
Terrible gremlins appeared from, presumably, Gremlinland, over the past week, but the blog seems to be up and running OK again. Apologies if you tried to get on to the last post and couldn’t. As we say...
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Forward Prizes, spring garden and free will
I have just finished reading The Forward Book of Poetry 2014. It’s an annual collection of poems submitted for various elements of the Forward Prizes. The best collection was by Michael Symmons Roberts...
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Trip to Kirkcudbright and Dumfries
No blog last week as we were in Dubai – see next week’s blog. On a recent visit to my sister in Dumfries, we went to the attractive town of Kirkcudbright (Pr Kirk – ood – bri). Kirkcudbright is a...
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Michael Longley, Goats’ Gallop and Homesman
The Winter Poetry Book Society Choice was put through my letter box by the postman yesterday and this reminded me that I had not yet started to read the Autumn choice – Michael Longley’s The Stairwell...
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Howard Towll and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie interview in Dubai
A new exhibition at SOC’s Waterstone House features 2 artists, Howard Towll and John Busby. I contacted both artists to ask for photos or permission to download and the former got back to me. Howard...
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