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Summer gnashes its teeth
For the last couple of days summer has gnashed its teeth in Scotland, girning and moaning in windy torrents and lashings of rain. The atmosphere has been decidedly frosty too with a cold wind making low temperatures feel even lower. … Continue reading
Primed and programmed
This has been a very strange general election, coming as it does just five weeks after our local council elections. A snap election called by our Prime Minister who managed to overturn the 2011 Fixed-term Parliament Act to call it. … Continue reading
Posted in Dorothy Bruce, Events of interest
Tagged bias, big data, blogging, broadcast media, dark money, elections, politicians, politics, psychometric profiling, social media, sound quality, television
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And then there were clowns
In the week before the carnival in Funchal the broad boulevard beside our apartment turned into a riotous mass of swirling shapes and colour. Madeira was in party mood. Bright awnings pierced with shapes were slung between trees. Beneath these, numerous stalls … Continue reading
Posted in Dorothy Bruce, Events of interest, Places of interest
Tagged African tulip tree, awnings, bands, carnival, clowns, Funchal, limestone-cobbled pavements, Madeira, poncha, samba
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Carnival in Madeira
The colour, glitter and liveliness of this amazing parade. Continue reading
Posted in Dorothy Bruce, Events of interest, Places of interest
Tagged carnival, carnival parade, Madeira, samba
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The sands o’ life
My love is like a red red rose That’s newly sprung in June: My love is like the melodie That’s sweetly played in tune. So fair art thou, my bonnie lass, So deep in love am I: And I will … Continue reading
European dreams
I should have been born in a warmer climate, but then I wouldn’t have been Scottish, and I rather like being Scottish – especially at present when politics here are amazingly interesting, though often also hair-tearingly frustrating. The thrill of … Continue reading
On the eleventh day of April
What is so special about the eleventh day of April? A hint. It’s not the eleventh of April this year I’m referring to. It’s the eleventh day of April 1868. Ring any bells? Probably not — unless you live in … Continue reading
Posted in Arts in Scotland, Events of interest, Historical nuggets, People of interest, Places of interest, Uncategorized
Tagged Alexanger Reid, Art Nouveau, Christopher Dresser, James McNeill Whistler, Japan, Le Japon Artistique, Meiji restoration, Mitsubishi, Siegfried Bing, Thomas Blake Glover, Vincen Van Gogh
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February 14th
No red hearts or roses for me today either. Instead I’m going with images of a sculpture of two people that I found decorating a wall in a street of Funchal’s old town. Continue reading
Exhilarating
The boat was a Turkish gulet, twenty-three metres in length, called Bonita da Madeira, made from rich coloured woods and stainless steel, with masts that soared towards the sky. At the stern, we lounged on blue plastic covered mattresses formed … Continue reading
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