the lost wood
reveals this one tree

we feel so bad
for felling

'the chronically ill / understand a world / defined by / resource depletion'

'we're' more / the things / we do // than what's / been done / to us // (an argument with trauma)', from a series using a found alpine mountain rescue guide

SB (after Alina)

he stands by the tide
like a heron

on beautiful
flamingo legs

dailies, 15.IV.24

word-mntn (Ben Gulabin), beak mountain, by Diarmid's Grave, Glenshee, fairy-glen; the site of his struggle with the fairy boar. Hamish Henderson's ashes are interred on the summit. Myth, reality, and mythic reality.

Astonished to hear in @BBCradio4 Inside Science that some USA farmers feed chicken shit to cattle. This may explain why some cattle now have H5N1 Avian influenza. Unbelievably stupid and horrible.

Nice free trade deal with the USA anyone?

proposal for keeping golden orfe in heat source pump pools, combining renewable energy and elegance.

huts-nature-society

One reason we have such a dire and narrow culture of arts reviewing in Scotland nowadays is that the Edinburgh Festival and Fringe are discussed for 9 months of the year, when it happens in August. Look out your windows. This is April rain. Every day. Not August rain.

It

Jack Spicer

The last time I saw an eclipse everyone took a break from a Creative Scotland grants meeting to go out and watch. It would take too long to explain, but back in those days a freelance artist could still apply for and receive a grant from Creative Scotland.

The last panel gives me way more satisfaction than it probably should. #chronicillness #MECFS #LongCovid

After Britannica we sometimes used to say …

Chaucer would have
played cricket –

if cricket had
been invented

6.IV.24

the CEO's / primary rival / is sleep

bampot bingo, after Jim

'Gary says / ooooshh // what a / strike!'

The “Billy Boys” song originates with Billy Fullerton, leader of the Billy Boys of Brigton Cross, a Protestant street gang in the 1920s. Fullerton was awarded a medal for strike-breaking during the 1926 General Strike and formed a Glasgow branch of the British Union of Fascists.