Artist Date 2: A Commission
I tend to think I'm rubbish at working to someone else's specifications. That commissions stifle my imagination. But, the only projects I've managed to complete, successfully, in the last year…
An Artist and her Bus Pass
I am on a lonely road and I am travelling, sang Joni Mitchell in a song I like very much. But her problem could be considered quite the opposite of…
The Hawks Nib
It’s a Butey!
Tuesday 20 JulyI sit at the window of a kitchen that is mine for the week, like a cat safe in the knowledge its curiosity won't kill it here. On…
Stinging Sixties
Thanks to my parents not being able to keep their hands off each other for, preferably, another twenty years, a week ago I became sixty. I've known it was going…
Book Week Scotland 2020
Book Week Scotland 2020 is upon us like the softest of eiderdowns, fashioned from a patchwork of fabric cut from the frocks in a dress-up chest. This year's theme is…
Enchanted Lands
What is an enchanted land? Does it have to be outside, like a forest or a wild-flower meadow, or can it be inside, like a kitchen in which a pie…
A Day of Curiosity – Sat 8th June
From Wigtown: Find out why curiosity didn't kill the cat! Join us this Saturday in Wigtown for a day of short talks from the inquisitive staff of the University of Glasgow, Dumfries…