The finished garden feature. No mortar, every stone placed carefully by hand, unbeatable sustainability credentials, and guaranteed to last hundreds of years. What's not to like?
The niche is also a very unusual design. I've never seen a niche with a vertical stone backing and wanted to try to make one. It worked a treat, and our clients have something really unique.
I also love how the colours of the stone really come through after the rain.
Destroying the planet we live on -- the only planet we can live on -- is of course totally legal and even supported and subsidised by governments around the world (including #Scotland's).
But PROTESTING against destroying the planet? That's illegal. That's very, very illegal. Don't even think about doing that.
On a low turnout (37.2%), Labour secured a 20% swing in tis favour to win the #Rutherglen#byelection beating the SNP by 58% to 27% of the vote... while the #Tories crashed to 3.9%.
And, now the reading of the runes can get under way....
Miserable weather with storms and lashing rain. Got caught in two road closures. Electricity supply has been cut all day, which also meant no 'phone calls or Internet access.
Power, and thus Internet, now restored, but, still no 'phone calls. I needed to make some online purchases, but, couldn't receive the verification codes by SMS.
It's a small bridge with a 'twist'. The date stone says 1778, but date stones can be misleading & will often refer to repairs.
Legend says that witches would not make a crossing over water if they could not see to the other side, so the 'twist' is to exclude witches & evil spirits from crossing either way.
The 'twist' feature in the bridge and its purpose suggest that the bridge is perhaps older than 1778.
Come on #Scotland, I need a foolproof recipe for #TattieScones or potato scones if you would prefer but not potato farles. The shops in Cornwall, for some reason have stopped selling them, even the tory Warburton ones have vanished. So please help a Scottish lass in exile in Cornwall to remember hame wi a good recipe and tell me how you make yours? I can get proper black pud and square sausage nae bother but hame made tattie scones have tae be the best, nae? #Help#Recipes
Here is an image of a local Bluebell Wood. Although Bluebells are naturalised in other parts of the world, they are actually native to Western Europe, and over half of the world's population are found in the UK.
Bluebells are a common indicator species for ancient woodlands, so bluebell woods can date back at least 1600 years.
I was involved in a short discussion about hair ice. It surprised me that other people, in Scotland, had never seen hair ice. For me, it is a very common sight.
To see hair ice one needs frosty conditions, suitable wood (deciduous branches are good, particularly beech), and, crucially, the presence of Exidiopsis effusa. Currently, I have an abundance of all three elements.
To-day, I found several examples, after a quick search. The attached photo was the best.
'The climate deniers don’t want people in Scotland to look to Scandinavia and the other parts of our continent where heat pumps are becoming a normal part of everyday life', says Scottish Green MSP Mark Ruskell
How can Scotland best heat its buildings? Let's look to Scandinavia
The Buchanites Part One: The Woman Clothed in Sun
The Buchanites were a Christian Sect led by the charismatic Elspeth Buchan in the late 18th and early 19th Century Scotland.
Both captains return as #France make 13 changes from last week's experimental side. #Scotland make 6 changes. The last ten matchups are five apiece, the maths says it could go either way but this is an ascendant France team on home soil. Les Bleus are in white ce soir.
Stadium is sold-out, weather's good, should be a great night for the fans.
Red squirrels in the Queen Elizabeth forest in the Trossachs.
LOOK AT THEIR TUFTY FLUFFINESS!
Taken with a hand held camera because I wasn't expecting to video, I was there to get snaps of the birds from the bird hide, but they were were just so cute.