[Photos] UK 17 - Royal Botanic Edinburgh Garden, Greenhouses Part 3

Okay, it's going to take me a month to put up these photos but I am DETERMINED.

Glen and I finished Good Omens over the weekend! I really enjoyed it. I knew I was going to love Tennant, but what I didn't expect was how much I just loved Sheen as Aziraphale, as far as I'm concerned, he stole the show. We've also started watching Chihayafuru again, in preparation for the third season coming out. And today we started watching American Gods S2 which is actually terrible, way more exploitatively violent than it needs to be (I mean for no other reason than to literally be like 'look how cool our special effects team is haha aren't people gross'), but excellent for doing cross-stitch to, lol.


These are very soft to walk through.



( The last of the greenhouse photos )

[Photos] UK 18 - Falkirk, The Kelpies

I'm just going to write what I wrote on my Instagram post here, because I... this was a personal journey, and on the very top of my bucketlist, along with seeing Orkney.

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Story time!

I have spent more than 6 years of my life writing about two kelpies, the Manx Glashtyn and the Scottish Each Uisge (Ash and Augus respectively in my Fae Tales series).

When I learned of these Falkirk kelpie sculptures by Andy Scott, I knew we had to go see them, and it was everything I hoped for. Scott drew his own two Clydesdales, Duke (head down) and Baron (head up), envisaging their great bodies standing beneath the water. 30 metres high! I have a print of that original sketch that will live in my writing office forever.

I've spent more of my life living, breathing and writing waterhorses more than any other mythological being, and I am indebted to them and others on this wild journey that is still ongoing, and endlessly grateful to the folks who read and enjoy their contemporary stories, and allow them to live on in those entirely new guises in writing and art.


Time to eat the sun



( Some big horsey bois )