Read The Last Days of Kira Mullan by Nicci French ★★★☆☆ 📚
Tricksy whodunit, lots going on. A long story even though I raced through it. Side trip to asylum, with very unpleasant staff. Plenty of detail & red herrings. Gaslighting, mental health& murder turn out to be a good holiday read.
Although I’ve not listened to much of Amadou & Mariam’s music, I have liked this for a long time. Sad to read Amadou Bagayoko of music duo Amadou & Mariam dies aged 70
Greenside, warn and clear. Lots of birdsong, goldfinches, lots of chiffchaff. Stonechat, wrens, tits, and more. Butterflies, peacocks, small tortoiseshell & orange tips. Primroses are out.
#SilentSunday
Milngavie to home via the Kelvin. Blue sky, sunshine & a cool breeze. Lesser celandine, wood anemones & lots of few-flowered leek. The blackthorn well out, some willow catkins.
A few peacock butterflies & a green veined white. A glimpse of a kingfisher on the Allander water. Bit of bird song, chiffchaffs, blue & great tits, goldfinches & more. A couple of peewit in the distance.
Kids bug hunting in school. Two butterflies, the first of the year. A peacock and a small tortoiseshell circling each other.
As my full time teaching moves towards the end. I wonder what other job allows you to: organise an art exhibit; video conference with someone from NASA; go for walks in the woods; write poems; learn about AI; play with paint, numbers, cardboard & a whole lot more. Half full I’d say.
I’d love a way of finding podcasts that were 20 minutes or less long.
Read The Ecliptic Benjamin Wood ★★★★☆ 📚
Strangely framed story of an abstract artist, from Clydebank, in a Sixties London art world. I was completely absorbed by the central section describing her life & art. The frame, a colony for troubled artists on a Turkish island not quite so much.