Going south for action painting

HOUSE: Another Saturday, another roll of seagrass matting. Although it was slightly larger we managed to wrestle the second piece of matting upstairs on our own, having overcome some mental inertia to empty our bedroom of furniture… …make floor space in the living room then unroll and trim the seagrass. T omake fitting at theContinue reading “Going south for action painting”

Life post-‘completion’

AAA I took the car to Kilmartin for it to fail the MOT. Had a nice walk by Kilmartin burn, no sign of spawning salmon or seatrout; plenty of weed still evident. I also noticed a field maple, that lover of calcareous conditions, reflecting the burn’s locally unusual pH balance. Driving both there and backContinue reading “Life post-‘completion’”

Well sprung

Borrowing half of Monday from last week and Friday from the one before, I joined Tash for a weekend in Joppa/Portobello; Edinburgh on Sea – Saturday in town visiting galleries, Sunday walking the coast. We caught a bus east along the firth, got off at the river Esk and walked beside the river and theContinue reading “Well sprung”