This is in the lagoon around Venice. The painting is currently with

Thompson's Marylebone Gallery.

Evening sun

Sweet Williams

Another of the paintings which have gone to London.

Thai Textile with daffodils

This is one of six paintings which have gone south to an art fair in London.

They are with Mayfair gallery Duncan R Miller Fine Arts.

Abseiling down Glasgow's Science Tower.

look at these colours...

Blek Le Rat

This is street art by Blek Le Rat...born Xavier Prou in Paris in 1952.

Twenty years before Banksy he was doing this kind of thing. If you

go onto Google Images and type in Blek Le Rat you'd think you'd

found Banksy's site. Interesting.

World War Z

The centre of Glasgow is doubling for Philadelphia in

Brad Pitt's new movie World War Z. George Square as

you've never seen it before. Filming started yesterday

and lasts for two weeks.

In the garden

The chandelier found a home.

Pink Fir Apples

Dug up some Pink Fir Apple potatoes from the garden.

Brought them into the kitchen and gave them a wash

before laying them on a red tea towel to dry for cooking

later on. Decided to photograph them under the kitchen

spotlights and this is how it turned out. Wild.

A wee blast of garden colour from two days ago...

before it started to rain.

Clerkland Farm Tea Room

The new exhibition at Clerkland Farm tea rooms is by Robert Clow.

It is a group of sensitive drawings and water colours. Stop by, have

a cup of tea and a scone...or lunch. Look at the exhibition.

Buy some of Anne Hamilton's delicious cheese.

Half way between Dunlop and Stewarton in Ayrshire.

Picked up this wonderfully colourful chandelier. Trying to

work out where to hang it. Mind you with our low ceilings

there can only be a couple of places where it won't give

us concussion.

Clematis Hagley Hybrid in the evening sun.

This is one of my favourite places in Greece. Good for drawing,

lunch, dinner...metaxa. Hmm.

Lime Tree gallery, Bristol

Dropped into the Lime Tree Gallery in Hotwell Road, Bristol to see

their Summer Show in which I have a painting. Sister gallery to the

Lime Tree in Suffolk, the Bristol gallery has only been in place for a

few years but is doing very well in these difficult times. The Summer

Show features Scottish painters and is a great exhibition so if you are

in Bristol go in and have a look.

Can you spot my painting?

Bristol's Harbour Festival

It was the Harbour festival in Bristol this weekend

and the turn out was fantastic.

One thing Bristol does really well is use it's riverside.

There are restaurants, galleries, museums and shops.

Even without the festival this is a riverside that

attracts people and keeps the place alive. When the

festival is on it is wonderful. I can think of a city not

a million miles from here who could use a few

planning lessons when it comes to creating a vibrant

riverside that actually attracts people.