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Dunans Castle Clearance Continues in Kitchen & Library: More Images

The clearance of the back two compartments of the castle has taken much longer than the others, simply because they aren’t accessible by the minidigger and there’s not enough room for more than a couple of workers. Our luck continues with the floors, which are all concrete, making clearance much much easier than suspended floors.

If you want to help with castle or bridge we have two volunteer fortnights in May 2020 and September 2020 – available here.

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October 2019 Report

All about the progress we’ve made this month, including a walk around the castle and under the bridge.

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Midway through our AIP repointing project

Our AIP Jammers have been working incredibly hard and the results have been fantastic. Eland Stuart has been teaching a variety of skills including washing out joints gently and using lime slurry to provide a keying texture for vertical joints!

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First Day with AIP at Dunans Bridge

Day one: lots of clearing out joints, discussion of approach, and above all, lots of learning about rubble-built structures.

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September 2019 Report from Dunans

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What did you do for the planet today?

If you are not sure, or if you don’t know what to do, here’s a useful list of things you can do or might think about.

• campaign (apparently this is the major contribution you can make to the mitigation of Climate Change)
• don’t fly
• stop using plastic
• cycle or walk instead of driving
• drive an electric car and/or don’t change your car as often
• turn the heating down
• wear your clothes a day longer
• eat food from sustainable sources
• upgrade your devices slowly and ensure your old devices are recycled properly.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ethical-living

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Selwyn & Ink

Readers will be aware of my ongoing design and illustration work, as well as installations and videos I have produced over the years. Last year, inspired by a series of illustrations I produced prior to delivering a show in Birmingham, I launched Selwyn & Ink a portfolio website and overall brand to encapsulate this work and separate it from ScottishLaird and Dunans Castle. The website is available here.

 

 

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Who Owns The Truth You Believe?

So much #disinformation around – and we seem to have stopped having the #criticalthinking skills to #decipher #objectivetruth from ur-truths promoted by #vestedinterests.

This is the first in an occasional series of pertinent questions I’ll be posting on CCC.com – as well as @seedixonspain, @dixonspain and my FB account. Share at will, but always with this url!

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The 1975 and Greta Thunberg

This morning I was shocked out of my contemplation of Boris and his new cabinet by The 1975’s new single featuring Greta Thunberg, the world’s most famous climate change activist. That shock was precisely the point. Greta lambasts older generations, she rounds on the present polite political dialogue and makes the case that we should all act now – we should rebel!

Here’s the track: https://open.spotify.com/track/6sQeHBkvilt6ycKfnJMki4?si=HgxgRt_nTI6KzLshO9f6wA

… I particularly love the video cover

And here’s a more direct admonition: https://open.spotify.com/track/2N2u7QF2uJHbEEUEDS7UQK?si=lR4CulkeR4iZ9ezE2C920g

 

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