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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.
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