Tried my hand at embroidery for the first time, to provide a Pictish symbol for an early medieval costume I'm making. It isn't perfect but it looks the part I think. #embroidery #Pictish #Picts #Scotland #EarlyMedieval
2.7.2023 12:32Tried my hand at embroidery for the first time, to provide a Pictish symbol for an early medieval costume I'm making. It isn't...The essential element of the concept of mercenaries is that they do the bidding of the highest bidder. Don't count them as allies unless you can improve on your enemy's highest offer.
24.6.2023 02:00The essential element of the concept of mercenaries is that they do the bidding of the highest bidder. Don't count them as allies unless...How the hell?
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Extreme-right UK government propaganda trumpet the #BBC have dystopian classic film Children of Men (2006) available to watch on their iPlayer. Presumably none of their people have actually watched it? And does the Home Secretary know?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001kscd/children-of-men
#BBCbias #Immigration #ThisIsWhereWeAreGoing
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-65411666
What the BBC says in that article is that "it was agreed" that the stone would return to Westminster at such times. Important to realise that it was not agreed, however, with the people of Scotland but with the British crown, the stone having been stolen by the English king Edward I
The BBC are at it again; this headline can be read to suggest that Nicola Sturgeon is in the same sort of shares scandal that Sunak faces. It isn't so, of course. We see you BBC.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-65307027
18.4.2023 08:08The BBC are at it again; this headline can be read to suggest that Nicola Sturgeon is in the same sort of shares scandal that Sunak faces....I'm proud to be a member of Humanists UK and and proud too of the support it provides to so many. This short video narrated by Stephen Fry explains a bit more. #humanism
https://humanists.uk/join-humanists-uk-stephen-fry/
7.4.2023 14:56I'm proud to be a member of Humanists UK and and proud too of the support it provides to so many. This short video narrated by Stephen...I tried to capture the strange light on the day I visited these standing stones in Uist, Scotland, oils on board. A partial success maybe, but it sold so someone is happy! I love painting archaeological landscapes. #StandingStones #Uist #Scotland
3.4.2023 09:33I tried to capture the strange light on the day I visited these standing stones in Uist, Scotland, oils on board. A partial success maybe,...@Curator 9d57f4e5027adf5e.jpeg
10.3.2023 16:45@Curator 9d57f4e5027adf5e.jpegAnother landscape painting I completed during lockdown, a romanticised Scottish highland view, oils on canvas. It is after Gustav Doré but not an attempt at a copy. #Scotland #LandscapePainting #RomanticArt
10.3.2023 08:36Another landscape painting I completed during lockdown, a romanticised Scottish highland view, oils on canvas. It is after Gustav Doré but...Loch Coruisk, Skye, oils on canvas. This one has now been sold. #Scotland #LandscapePainting #Skye #OilPainting #Pebbles
10.3.2023 08:09Loch Coruisk, Skye, oils on canvas. This one has now been sold. #Scotland #LandscapePainting #Skye #OilPainting #PebblesI painted this for a commission during lockdown in 2021, a view of Loch Shiel and Glenfinnan, oils on canvas #Scotland #LandscapePainting #Glenfinnan #OilPainting
10.3.2023 07:59I painted this for a commission during lockdown in 2021, a view of Loch Shiel and Glenfinnan, oils on canvas #Scotland #LandscapePainting...Should the lynx be reintroduced to Scotland? #Scotland #rewilding #EuropeanLynx
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ND3GTG52kJA
2.3.2023 22:56Should the lynx be reintroduced to Scotland? #Scotland #rewilding #EuropeanLynxhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ND3GTG52kJAThe birdie place is polluting minds with extreme right conspiracy theories. Now the claim is that the #UkraineRussiaWar is a hoax. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-64789737
28.2.2023 07:57The birdie place is polluting minds with extreme right conspiracy theories. Now the claim is that the #UkraineRussiaWar is a hoax....Here's a nice short video by friends of rural Scotland's revival highlighting the plight of our rivers, particularly relating to our wild #Salmon. Please watch. #Scotland #Rewilding #Revival #Rivers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdsHMVa1LaM
23.2.2023 21:35Here's a nice short video by friends of rural Scotland's revival highlighting the plight of our rivers, particularly relating to our...One by one the stars are going out. #Skyglow #Pollution #AtmosphericPollution #Astronomy
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-64321824
Sunak wants all (English) pupils to study maths to age 18. Interesting that the minimum leaving age is to be raised? I think they'd be better studying politics and environmental science, but what do I know?
4.1.2023 02:10Sunak wants all (English) pupils to study maths to age 18. Interesting that the minimum leaving age is to be raised? I think they'd be...The most prescient interview I've ever seen. Ian Hislop must have a crystal ball. #UK #Politics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUYQiQeBOSk
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13.12.2022 14:53Thanks mate.This is my painting of Riverbend, River Eye, Eyemouth. Oil on canvas, 594x420mm. I love painting local scenes. This one is already sold. #LandscapePainting #Scotland #Eyemouth #OilPainting #Art #Artist
13.12.2022 13:18This is my painting of Riverbend, River Eye, Eyemouth. Oil on canvas, 594x420mm. I love painting local scenes. This one is already sold....