'Songs for Winter'

Another early start (though not quite as early as yesterday) for another day on our stall at the Scots Fiddle festival in Edinburgh. I abandoned MrM for a couple of hours this afternoon, and walked in to the City Arts Centre to see the exhibition 'Songs for Winter', by our friends Pauline Burbidge and Charlie Poulsen. It really is a fabulous exhibition of Pauline's quilts and Charlie's drawings and sculpture, and much more - videos, sketchbooks, etc. Well worth a visit! Couldn't resist looking round the other exhibitions too, and the shop (though I was very restrained and didn't buy anything).

Would like to have pottered round Edinburgh for a while, and thought about going in to Blackwell's book shop, but resisted all temptation and made my way back to Summerhall and our stall. (Just as well really - had I gone in through the doors of Blackwell's it may have been a LONG while before I emerged...) Didn't seem long before it was time to pack up the stall and head back to Wooler.

The blip shows one of Charlie's sculptures ('afraid I can't remember what it's called), and the extra is the view through one of the windows at the Arts Centre, over Waverley station to the Balmoral Hotel on Princes Street.