EDINBURGH EXHIBITION (DOVECOT STUDIO)

Edinburgh was looking well in the autumn afternoon.

Next to John Lewis's is a clutch of cranes.  Not the sort of thing you see on the Edinburgh skyline. Worth a few photos I thought.

I paid a visit to the Dovecot Studio which was holding an exhibition of Liberty fabrics, i.e. an exhibition of various garments using their fabrics.

This is the studio where weaving frames are erected on which carpets and wall hangings will be made. The building is actually an old swimming pool. The ceiling still has the original iron supports and beams. The pool itself has been turned into a floor as seen above.

A lovely book about the history of a selection of fabrics or wallpapers which includes the hex colours selected from the samples.  Very useful when choosing colours in Photoshop.

Liberty garments.

 A book on their fabrics of the 50s and 60s.

Coffee in the cafe with a bowl of soup after I spent time 'exiting through the gift shop'.  The reason I took the photo on my iPhone was to capture the blue colour of the wall in the cafe.  Lovely!

FAMILY SEPTEMBER PHOTOS

Back to school and back to 'normal' routine.  Here are recent photos of the grandchildren.

Ishie is now in her first year of secondary school (11.75 years old). Next to her is Ellie, 3.5 years old, front left is Harriet now is Primary 1 (5 years old) and lastly Alastair (10 years old) is in Primary 7, his last year of Primary School.

Ishie and Harriet baking.  I am cultivating their skills and have recently observed a new phenomenon which turns out to be a very, very good incentive ... taking a photo on their mobile phone in order to show their friends.

Alastair likes to eat; he also takes a (rather second=hand!) interest in baking and/or meal preparation.

What do I mean?  Rather than ask to do it (unlike the girls) he gives me the recipe ... which I produce in the fullness of time.  I don't mind but I must remember to get him in the kitchen, with an apron on, doing it himself.

This is his recipe for Flapjacks.  Yes, it is good but I mustn't let this Work Allocation Exercise become a habit!  (And like Uncle Alastair at the same age, he makes himself scarce whenever a tea-towel appears in the post-dinner washing-up.)

Ellie - absolutely full of beans!

 

Harriet in the driver's seat of a fire engine.

 Everyone with Iain in the cockpit of Seol-na-Mara in July, Rothesay.

Indy (7 years old) on his first day of school (Grade 2).

TO ENGINEER at 2018 ORKNEY SCIENCE FESTIVAL

Iain was a speaker at the 2018 Orkney Science Festival.  His subject was about how everyone should be solving complex problems using engineering ways of thinking.

For 'everyone' read 'politicians'!   He likes to use the word 'engineer' as a verb (to engineer) where he means 'think like an engineer'.  For example "He engineered a business solution for his product."

The publication is available as a pdf here:

  

http://www.iesis.org/toengineer/To-Engineer.pdf

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We had a good week of weather; here some photos of St Magnus Cathedral...