Boleskine House, to compare after the fire and before. #Boleskine #Crowley #LochNess

A trip at the weekend to Boleskine House to see my sisters painting on display, and just to see how much the house has changed since we were there last, just after it burned down. #AleisterCrowley #LochNess #Boleskine

youtu.be/mS7ibAUfwSI?... I like what she did with The Clash track ‘Straight to Hell’ Did you know Joe Strummers mum was a crofter from Bonar Bridge? It’s bound to come up in a pub quiz someday #BonarBridge

Morning/afternoon road trip over the bridges, the van did well. Coylumbridge, Nethybridge, Brown Bridge, the Lecht, Cockbridge and other bridges without a name. No photos, too busy having fun with the hairpins. Who else shouts ‘weee’ on the cambers?

Theres snow on them there hills

This is my watercolour of the enigmatic megalith in Oxfordshire known as the Hawk Stone. According to legend, witches were chained to it before being burned at the stake. The original artwork is now available on my Etsy shop here: www.etsy.com/shop/MySearc... #StandingStoneSunday

www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/7008... The walrus is in Hopeman now after a few stops along the Moray coast : )

The image is also in reverse.

Baiting a fishing line with mussels in #Cromarty, c1910 [photo: Willie John Smith]

‘The Alliance to Liberate Scotland’ About 2 seconds into the broadcast, I can tell they’re anti immigrant. And there’s Tommy Sheridan, with rousing American country music in the background,singing about ‘patriots’ (pateriots) Socialist, my arse.

My favourite rock pool. Square cut from shallow to deep, you just want to get in there. #Cullen #MorayFirth #Portknockie

Breezy kine #Cullen #MorayFirth

Today Boleskine House opens it’s doors to the public for the first time in 260 years.

subscriptions >>> shop.viz.co.uk/viz354bs

No more blah blah blah! #Greta

Once again, Snake Plisken is on point.

Tomnahurich this morning #CaledonianCanal

Findhorn pre and post Storm Dave in the van. The soundtrack, the eerie wail of yacht rigging catching the gusts, and rocked to sleep in a nest of brushed cotton snugglyness.

You’ve got to admit, it’s quite a distraction from the Epstein files

Having a wee mooch about Kharg Island on G earth and came across this photo sphere sculpture. Who is he?

Mad King Donny's brain has gone fuckity-bye, folks. now he's hallucinating a 'prize' that he says Iran gave him — but he won't tell anyone what it is. thank you for your attention to my post in which I mock the shit out of Donny's incoherent blithering. link is here: bit.ly/4v646cO

#BillGrundy youtu.be/0NQphQZXhFM?...

Criminally underrated vocalist. The impact The Specials had on British dance culture can't be overstated. Both Fun Boy Three records are inventive, timeless and deeply strange. And his verse on "Poems" is to this day one of the coldest things I've ever heard.

Happy equinox 🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞

youtu.be/tVNGY1pInfI?... Switching off from the madness and as far as the Killers go, this album Sawdust I liked because the cd looked like a slice of wood. I’ve not liked them since. This track with Lou Reed just before he died is a nice composition.

youtu.be/7ldcRcBedGo?... I saw Ian Dury and the Blockheads, Glastonbury 1984, I’d just left school, passed the exams I wanted. A little treat to myself, less than £20 a ticket : )

youtu.be/cAsrZNWfMvY?... Saw them a few times in the 80’s, Alice Nutter on vocals and trumpet, screen writer, quire multi talented. I could go on but

‘The Jobbie’ #TheJobbie #Edinburgh

Dolly

I hope no one bought him a xmas present, that would have been a waste

In Edinburgh for a couple of nights, complaining about the heat. It’s just that wee bit closer to the equator, if I was at home the wood-burner would be lit probably hours ago and I’d be crunching about on the ice : )

The old Spey bridge before it collapsed. #SpeyBay #MorayFirth

Come May/June I should be in my new studio and gallery in the historic coastal town of Portsoy, northeastern Scotland. My plans include offering studio space for self-funded art residencies. If you’d like to be informed when I've things set up, please get in touch. #Art #Painting #Scotland #Portsoy

Out for a walk on the hills this morning, bitterly cold, but the sun is trying to shine and the larks are singing for the first time this year. Lots of yellowhammers too. All positive signs were moving out of the darkness 🌞

Ach it’s a sair fecht so it is : )

Aberdeen's 21 days of gloom declared officially over

And off goes my brother : )

youtube.com/watch?v=-3jw... My brother was the spit of Mark Knopfler, although I’m not a Straits fan, with the rolled up sleeved sports jacket head band look, neither was my brother. They were to cool for school without knowing it

My brother died today, his 19th year with myeloma. He was a human guinea pig for the cause, been on every experimental treatment available, he always bounces back but not today. Scott Stephenson, mechanical genius, dry wit, big brother, this wasn’t meant to happen today.

Tuesday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...

The head has emerged

"And we now have María on the line who would like to swap a Nobel Peace Prize for the presidency of Venezuela..."

Beautiful everyday Ladybird things Knitted pencil case Artist: Eric Winter (Knitting, 1972)

youtube.com/watch?v=wcba... I miss Lux Interior too #TheCramps

youtube.com/watch?v=ydBR... #TerryHall I miss him

youtube.com/watch?v=nY4i... #StellaSteet I have the complete set on video.

youtube.com/watch?v=Zdcd... Almost final claim to fame maybe : ) Thatcher stayed at my mum and dad’s hotel (early 80’s) Banff. She was touring meat factories. She insisted on being served food in her room, my dad told her ‘you can eat in the dining room with everybody else’ Good for my dad : )

youtube.com/watch?v=yJWg... Next claim to fame and showing my age here. Graham Garden from the Goodies took me to Chalmers hospital in Banff to get my chin stitched up after a playground accident. I was crying but in awe, he bought me a peach then we went for a run in my dads Cortina.

Cave at Cullen (no snow) and my house. On a side note the old Merc still starts first turn of the key