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January 2012

Culture

I am reading...        'The Child in Time', Ian McEwan

I am listening to...  
Sir David Attenborough on BBC Desert Island Discs

I am watching...      'Birdsong', Sebastian Faulks (BBC adaption)

I am looking at...    
'Extreme Ice Now', James Balog


Nature

 
Pentland Hills

Travel

   
British Library                          Scott - Natural History Museum    Welcome Collection



December
2011

Culture

I am reading...        
'The Comfort of Strangers', Ian McEwan

I am listening to...  
'The Messiah' at The Queens Hall, Edinburgh

I am watching...      Edinburgh Hogmanay Fireworks

I am looking at...    
'The Sculpture Show', The National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh

Nature
 
Dusting of snow          Pine Forest

 
Early Spring growth                   Sunrise over The Dean

Travel
   
Glamis Castle                           View towards Angus

 
Cramond Beach                        Tentmuir Beach


November
2011

Culture

I am reading...        
'Frozen Annals:Greenland Ice Sheet Research', W. Dansgaard

I am listening to...  
'Material World', Quentin Cooper, BBC Radio 4

I am watching...      'Frozen Planet', BBC 1

I am looking at...    
70,000 year old ice cores at The Centre for Ice and Climate, Copenhagen

Nature
   
Crystals at the Geologisk Museum, Copenhagen

Travel
     
Professor Anders Svensson and ice cores at the Centre for Ice and Climate, Copenhagen

   
Nyhavn, Copenhagen                Copenhagen                             Florist, Copenhagen

 
'Cabinet of curiosity'                  Louisianna Art Museum

    
Thread shop                 Inuit Reindeer antler



October
2011

Culture

I am reading...        
'Rocks and Minerals, The Definitive Guide', Ronald Louis Bonewitz

I am listening to...  
Jenny Smith at The Edinburgh Laser Cutting Studio

I am watching...      'The Secret Life of Ice', Dr. Gabrielle Walker, BBC4

I am looking at...   
'Colour and Line: Turner's Experiments', Tate Britain

Nature  

   
Crystals at the Natural History Museum, London

Travel:
   
Armour - Wallace Collection        View towards Tate Britain            EP at Tate Britain


September
2011

Culture

I am reading...        
'Nanoscale - Visualising an Invisible World' by Kenneth and Stephen Deffeyes

I am listening to...  '
Hero as Riddle' by Martin Kershaw

I am watching...    
 'Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy', directed by Tomas Alfredson

I am looking at...   
'Bronwen Sleigh - Etchings', Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh

Nature  
   
Aberfeldy and a rare sighting of a red squirrel, plus a baby Highlander

Travel
   
Beautiful Skye


August 2011

Culture

I am reading...      
'Tony Cragg', essay by Patrick Elliot

I am listening to...  '
Poems - Wilfred Owen', read by David Moore

I am watching...    
'Page Eight', written and directed by David Hare

I am looking at...  
'Hiroshi Sugimoto', at the Gallery of Modern Art Two, Edinburgh

Nature  
 
Perthshire soft fruits and waterfall at Aberfeldy

Travel

 
Seacliff Beach and the Bass Rock near North Berwick


July 2011

Culture

I am reading...   
    'A History of Scotland' by Neil Oliver

I am listening to...  'In Conversation', Tony Cragg

I am watching...      'The Code' by Marcus Du Santoy

I am looking at...    The work at Jupiter Artland

Nature

         
Meadowsweet                 Allotments at Dean Gallery    Rare breed sheep

Travel

       
Tony Cragg at Modern Art I         Charles Jenks at Jupiter Artland      Loch Katrine



June 2011

Culture

I am reading...   
    The Edinburgh Festival Catalogue, 2011

I am listening to...  Two Door Cinema Club

I am watching...      Glastonbury

I am looking at...    Paul Furneaux's exhibition at Edinburgh Printmakers

Nature
 
Norfolk

 
Dumfries and Galloway                Logan Gardens


The Royal Highland Show

Travel

     
The Woodfords                            Paul and Amy                            The Woodfords            Two budding artists



May 2011

Culture

I am reading...   
    'Close: Landscape Design and Land Art in Scotland' by Allan Pollok-Morris

I am listening to...  'Lakme' by Delibe

I am watching...      'Icelandic Walk' on BBC 4

I am looking at...    Miro and Tanguy at Tate Modern

Nature

   
Drummond Castle

   
The view from my window in Edinburgh

Travel


Collect at the Saatchi Gallery

       

       

Highlights - favorite exhibits



Highlight - meeting Tracey Emin and seeing 'Black Cat'




April 2011

Culture

I am reading...   
    'Cold: Adventures in the World's Frozen Places' - Bill Streever
                                (Thanks to Claire for the recommendation)

I am listening to...  '21' - Adele

I am watching...      'Spiral'

I am looking at...    'Intaglio' - Robert Adam and Carol Robertson'

Nature



Our neighbourhood



View over Dean Gardens

Travel





Dawyk


March
2011

Culture

I am reading...   
    'Writing on Ice: The Ethnographic Notebooks of Vilhjalmur Stefansson'

I am listening to...  Birdsong Radio

I am watching...      'The Killing'

I am looking at...    Tone Vigeland, 'Jewellery and Sculpture - Movements in Silver'

Nature



Dean Gardens, Edinburgh



Macro-Micro

Travel



The greenest lake



January/February
2011

Culture

I am reading...   
    Yrsa Sigurdardottir, 'My Soul to Take'

I am listening to...  Very Cold Claire on BBC Radio (link)

I am watching...      The King's Speech

I am looking at...    Conserving Ecologies Symposium at the Botanics, Edinburgh

Nature



Travel



Moving to Edinburgh



Destination


December
2010

Culture

I am reading...   
    Tarnya Cooper, 'Tudor Portraits'

I am listening to...  Evensong at Christ Church, Oxford

I am watching...      Jim Al Khalili, 'The Secret Life of Chaos'

I am looking at...    Lark Books, '500 Necklaces'


Nature



Porpoise Jaw



Stick Insect

Travel



Bodleian Library, Oxford



Hazlitt's, London


November
2010

Culture

I am reading...   
    Phillip Ball, 'Flow'

I am listening to...  Joy Division, 'Closer'

I am watching...      David Attenborough, 'First Life'

I am looking at...    Iceland Review, 'Under the Volcano'


Nature



Albatross feather

Travel



Cambridge



October 2010

Culture

I am reading...   
    Felice Frankel, 'Envisioning Science'

I am listening to...  Mark Ronson and the Business International, 'Somebody to Love Me'

I am watching...      Hurt Locker

I am looking at...    David and Madeleine Spears, 'Unseen Companions'


Nature



Silicon Surface

Travel



Kennels at the Kennels



Making Artist Books



September
2010

Culture

I am reading...   
    Michael Gross, 'Travels to the Nanoworld'

I am listening to...  Vangellis, 'Blade Runner Trilogy'

I am watching...      Michael Radford, 'The Merchant of Venice'

I am looking at...    Felice Frankel, 'No Small Matter (Science on the Nanoscale)'


Nature



Lichen



Pod

Travel



Chelsea Physic Garden, London



The Royal College of Art



August 2010


Culture

I am reading...   
    Audrey Niffenegger, 'The Time Traveler's Wife'

I am listening to...  Schubert, 'Die Winterreise'

I am watching...      Louis Malle, 'Damage'

I am looking at...    The Cass Sculpture Foundation, 'Tony Cragg at Goodwood'


Nature



Hydrangea 'Annabelle'



Pod

Travel



Back to the past.....



The Minky car....



The Goodwood Aero Club....



July 2010


Culture

I am reading...   
    Gretel Ehrlich, 'This Cold Heaven''

I am listening to...  Vampire Weekend

I am watching...      Stephen Poliakoff, 'Joe's Palace'

I am looking at...    Cy Twombly, 'Fifty Years of Works on Paper'


Nature



Cacti



Chrysalis

Travel



West Dean



The view from the Kennels, Goodwood Estate, West Sussex


June 2010


Culture

I am reading...   
    Arnaldur Indridason, 'Hypothermia' and Ivan Amato, 'Super Vision'

I am listening to...  Broken Bells, 'Broken Bells'

I am watching...      Werner Herzog, 'Encounters at the End of the World' 

I am looking at...    Iceland Review - Volcano Issue


Nature



Allium Christophii - from my garden



Scilla Peruviana
- from my garden

Travel

Edinburgh Exhibition

 









Eduardo at the National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh



Up in the Highlands






May 2010


Culture

I am reading...   
    Ian McEwan, 'Chesil Beach'  -  Micheal Lockwood, 'The Labyrinth of Time'

I am listening to...  Múm, 'Sing along to songs you don't know'

I am watching...      Stephen Poliakoff, 'Glorious 39'  

I am looking at...    'Nature Fragile, le Cabinet Doyrolle', Musee de la Chasse de la Nature


Nature


My wisteria, a rare cultivar.

The first home grown asparagus of the season.


The first ever fruit on my new fig.

Travel



         
          Off to Edinburgh for my exhibition and artist talk.