The Smell of Water

Dark and true and tender is the north

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Βρίγαντες - Οι Υψηλοί

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Albion

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Aberdeen - 21 degrees & decline

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Wandering with Ivan The Tolerable & Bhajan Boy

I’ve lost count of the number of records The Ivan the Tolerable Trio (Oli Heffernan & friends) have released over the past two or three years. I’ve been listening to music for many decades and come sometimes become a little jaded with new music but with Oli’s work I keep coming back. I always know what I am getting, something genuinely original, often strange, always beautiful. I have never been…

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The Whin and the Whinstone

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John Hinde's Butlin's Postcards

A few years ago I bought a couple of John Hindes Butlin’s postcards I was fascinated by these little images of working class people enjoying themselves at a British holiday camp, Butlin’s. At the time when these images were made we were more used to seeing colour used in this way in the cinema. It is as if John Hinde and his photographers Edmund Nagele, David Noble and Elmar Ludwig had managed…

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A Different Wavelength

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Achnabreck

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At the Green Sheiling

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Ballymeanoch & Dunadd

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Wandering Kilmartin Glen

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The Rosettes of Omaig

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More from Meigle

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They did things a little differently in Pictland

I took a trip into Scotland and called in to have a look at the collection of Pictish carved stones at Meigle in Perthshire. There are 27 stones in the collection, they date from the late 8th to the late 12th centuries. The museum was formerly the village school and all of the stones were found in the churchyard next to the museum implying that Meigle was an important centre for the…

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Derbyshire Fossil Marble

Lower Carboniferous Crinoidal Limestone Location: St Andrew’s Church, East Heslerton. North Yorks.

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Heaven Hell and Other Things - The Pickering Wall Paintings

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The Govan Stones

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