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Muriel’s Musings: Colour Matters

  • Posted on: 19/04/2019

Coffee in Dalys Yoohoo… I’m over here in the corner on the velvet covered seats reserved for Glasgow ladies of the most stylish disposition. I have just ordered another cup of coffee, Kenyan High Mountain, they get it in pour …

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The Other Mary at Edinburgh Castle, 14 and 15 April

  • Posted on: 14/04/2019

Who is this “other Mary”? Mary of Guise married James V and in 1542 gave birth to a little girl. Come along to the Great Hall of Edinburgh Castle and meet Mary of Guise, mother of Mary, Queen of Scots.

Jasper’s Jottings: Trying to Stay In the Shed

  • Posted on: 06/04/2019

Owing to problems with the Muriel & Jasper website, we continue to give them shelter here on the Artemis website. It is April 1959 and Jasper is in his shed at the rural bolthole. Muriel is Out Ah there you …

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The Narrator Sets the Scene: The Return of the City Folk

  • Posted on: 31/03/2019

The End of Winter The landscape with its watery grey skies, brown hills and black skeletal trees looks like a painter’s sketch before the colour and definition are added. Late evening skies have become flame coloured stripes as the day …

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