December 2012

Culture

I am reading...        'The Bell Jar' by Sylvia Plath

I am listening to...  'The Messiah', Dunedin Consort

I am watching...      The Hour, BBC2

I am looking at...    Night Photosynthesis


Nature

 
Tyninghame Beach                                                                                   Nest

Travel  
  
          Baltic Centre                         Newcastle                      Newcastle Print Studio       



November 2012

Culture

I am reading...        'Zoku Zoku (Nuno Textiles)'

I am listening to...  'From the Sea to the Land Beyond', British Sea Power

I am watching...      The Killing III, BBC4

I am looking at...    The spaces where artists work




Nature
 
                                                  Investigating Lichen

Travel  
  


                                                               London                                         


October 2012

Culture

I am reading...        'The Greatcoat': Helen Dunmore

I am listening to...  'It's All About The Stragglers', Artful Dodger

I am watching...      Operation Iceberg, BBC2

I am looking at...    Lichen

Nature
 
Autumn in Edinburgh

Travel
 
                                    Perthshire                                                Glasgow Print Studio


September 2012

Culture

I am reading...        'Human Traces': Sebastian Faulks

I am listening to...  'Damn Your Eyes', Etta James

I am watching...      Seeing Stars, BBC4

I am looking at...    The view from Edinburgh Castle

Nature
 
Edinburgh sunset                         Edinburgh sunrise                    Robin Hood's Bay, Yorkshire                       

Travel
 
                                Edinburgh Castle and views of Edinburgh


August 2012

Culture

I am reading...        'The Poison Tree': Erin Kelly

I am listening to...  'Material World', Quentin Cooper

I am watching...      Lilyhammer, BBC4

I am looking at...    Picasso and Modern British Art, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art

Nature
 
Little Sparta                           

Travel
 
Print show, Duckett and Jeffreys


July 2012

Culture

I am reading...        'The Three Chimneys': Shirley Spear

I am listening to...  'Into my Arms', by Nick Cage and sung by Paloma Faith

I am watching...      The London 2012 Olympics

I am looking at...    The Cullins, Skye

Nature
 
The Botanics                                Culross Palace Garden            Culross Palace Garden

Travel
 
Sleat Peninsula, Skye                Dualchas house at Boreraig      Glen Sheil                                                                      

June 2012

Culture

I am reading...        'The Chemistry of Tears', Peter Carey

I am listening to...  'Disintergration', The Cure

I am watching...      'The Secret History of our Streets', BBC1

I am looking at...    Diatoms on the website of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia

Nature
 
Baby donkeys at Jupiter Artland      Scotland's East Coast                   Jupiter Artland

Travel
 
        Jupiter Artland            Jupiter Artland              Jupiter Artland                        Diatom                                                


May 2012

Culture

I am reading...        'Fruit and Vegetables for Scotland', Kenneth Cox and Caroline Seaton

I am listening to...  Birdsong on the Cley Marshes, North Norfolk

I am watching...      The yachts at Brancaster Staithe

I am looking at...    The brick and flint architecture of North Norfolk

Nature

Wiverton Hall Garden                 Brancaster Staithe                     Holkham Beach


Sea Thrift                       Cley Marshes                    Salthouse Ridge             Chicken house

Travel

Lindisfarne                                 Blickling Hall gardens                 Wiverton Hall                                                

Lindisfarne Castle         Alnwick gardens             Alnwick gardens            Felbrigg Hall 



April 2012

Culture

I am reading...        'White Lie', Andrea Gillies

I am listening to...  'Killing Moon', Echo and the Bunnymen

I am watching...      'The Bridge', BBC4

I am looking at...     'Edvard Munch', The Dean Gallery (Modern Art II)

Nature
     
The inspirational Cluny House Gardens

Travel
     
Falkland Palace                                                         Newhaven waterfront


March 2012

Culture

I am reading...        'Garden Plants for Scotland', Kenneth Cox

I am listening to...  'Panic of Looking', Brian Eno

I am watching...      'Venice 24/7', BBC4

I am looking at...     Living with Colour, Farrow and Ball

Nature
   
Spring at Ravelston        Dean Gardens                         Blossom, The Water of Leith

Travel

   
Loch Katrine                    Loch Katrine                            Pink Tree, The Botanics


February 2012

Culture

I am reading...        'The Cement Garden', Ian McEwan

I am listening to...  Culture Cafe, BBC Radio Scotland

I am watching...      'White Heat', Paula Milne (BBC adaption)

I am looking at...     Ceramics Now Magazine

Nature

    
Fog at dawn                                 Tyninghame Beach                       Lichen on the beach

Travel

 
Glen Lyon

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



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