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Alastair Muirhead

@tairmuir.bsky.social

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I’m here for your great stories that inspire my art and poems. Library. Museum and Art Gallery Trustee. I sell my cards here https://www.yousaidit.co.uk/designer/alastairs-cards

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Alastair Muirhead @tairmuir.bsky.social · 1h

Josh is going for the ‘leg over the haystack’ approach of getting his own farm isn’t he. #thearchers

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Alastair Muirhead @tairmuir.bsky.social · 1h

I wrote this about the Farne islands and posted it yesterday.

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The Captain of the Forfarshire I am bound to her still, the Forfarshire, my charge, my shame, my coffin of oak and iron. When she struck the rocks off Big Harcar, I felt her heart break beneath my fe...

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Alastair Muirhead @tairmuir.bsky.social · 13h

Or does he see everyone, read everyone, and tweet to everyone?

Alastair Muirhead @tairmuir.bsky.social · 1d

The Captain of the Forfarshire

Alastair Muirhead @tairmuir.bsky.social · 1d

This is beautiful

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Alastair Muirhead @tairmuir.bsky.social · 1d

I think I may have had my fill of it.

Alastair Muirhead @tairmuir.bsky.social · 1d

A.I. cheapens my sketches but it's addictive. It is actually gratifying that it recognised my splashes of paint as the delicate boughs of a weeping birch.

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Alastair Muirhead @tairmuir.bsky.social · 2d

I loved the story on Radio 4 about the new technology helping blind people see again, but more than that, I loved Mahi Muqit’s crisply spoken Scottish accent.

Alastair Muirhead @tairmuir.bsky.social · 2d

I thought Bluesky might like to see this old bookstore in #Buxton, England. My pen and wash sketch with a little Elon Musk AI

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Alastair Muirhead @tairmuir.bsky.social · 2d

Imagine if the public had found out everything about Christine Keeler. A similar senario of a pimp and well known clients.

Alastair Muirhead @tairmuir.bsky.social · 3d

VAT is a tax people forget (or don't know) about. I believe everything sold with VAT should have that element explained to customers as a matter of fair trading. Do you know which foods are zero VAT rated?

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Alastair Muirhead @tairmuir.bsky.social · 3d

A solar farm would work just as well on the southern slopes of the mountains as on the fertile valley floors, but because people would see them glinting in the sun the planners would rather hide them behind hedges and compromise our food security.

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Alastair Muirhead @tairmuir.bsky.social · 3d

It's all down to whether you believe in genetic science or not.

Alastair Muirhead @tairmuir.bsky.social · 3d

“And when October closes the season,
I cannae grieve.
For beneath that dark, quiet water
something still stirs”

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Alastair Muirhead @tairmuir.bsky.social · 4d

My top-selling card is this one. It’s been interesting to see how they sell. I’m grateful for every purchase.

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Alastair Muirhead @tairmuir.bsky.social · 5d

‘The Lade’ #perth #perthshire

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Alastair Muirhead @tairmuir.bsky.social · 5d

I'd rather be called a Prince than a Duke. Will Lord Mandelson now relinquish his honours?

Alastair Muirhead @tairmuir.bsky.social · 5d

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Fergusson, the Embra Poet

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Alastair Muirhead @tairmuir.bsky.social · 6d

Man made environmental damage and (man made) population levels go in tandem as history has more than proved.

Alastair Muirhead @tairmuir.bsky.social · 6d

I'm sorry you've taken that tone .

Alastair Muirhead @tairmuir.bsky.social · 6d

A fast rising population will make that pretty well impossible unless I'm missing something?

Alastair Muirhead @tairmuir.bsky.social · 6d

That doesn't chime with me as true.

Alastair Muirhead @tairmuir.bsky.social · 6d

We are short of home-grown food, energy, and clean water. Let's sort that first. That's what the Green Party I remember used to focus on.

Alastair Muirhead @tairmuir.bsky.social · 6d

How can an over-bloated and riding population that relies on food and energy importation ever br considered as to working towards sustainability?