Elaine Blackett-Ord

Good one Tom.

You clearly didn’t watch BBC News at Ten tonight. Jaw dropping regurgitation of Reform verbiage on asylum issue. Beyond belief and not journalism as we knew it even three months ago. 😡

… and the terrible results when plaster is removed to reveal rubble or rubbish stonework that no mason ever thought would be visible - it’s like stripping people naked and parading them through the streets!

Nothing to see here, just an anonymous brick house in Ripon? But look closely and it has been flush pointed, lined out, raddled and chalk sized. The art taking ordinary materials and making them shine. Poor Ruskin would have the vapours.

Wow! Great analogy.

SEDA is running a one-day Green Careers Fair to showcase green jobs on Wednesday 24th September 2025, during the week of the University of Glasgow’s Careers and Internship Marketplace which which attracts around 3,000 students. The Green Careers Fair will showcase small and medium sized enterprises, as well as large corporations, in order to highlight the full range of jobs available. Only people or companies run along ecological principles will be invited. SEDA has a wide network of contacts in such sectors that we are already drawing on. The fair will be held in the Glasgow University Union. We envisage four main elements to the day: - Stands representing career sectors - Six one-hour panel discussions - Drop-in workshops - Career directory We hope the event will make students aware of — and inspired to pursue a career in — a range of green related jobs about which they may have been unaware. All exhibitors will be encouraged to discuss related jobs, with a view to demonstrating how many, and the variety of, jobs that help address climate change and our environmental degradation. We will be selecting exhibitors on he basis of their passion for the subject and, where possible, young people who may be able to relate better to the students. The workshops are intended to explore the relationship between various green jobs and the environment – how complex and interrelated these jobs can be – and some of the skills needed to work in these areas such as problem-solving and collaboration. The poetry workshop will also address students’ emotional responses to climate change and other environmental emergencies. We intend to collect feedback from participating students to understand how successful we were in meeting our aims, so we can make improvements to any similar events we hold in the future.

SEDA is organising Scotland’s first in-person Green Careers Fair at @uofglasgow.bsky.social on 24 Sept and, with no ‘greenwashers’ allowed, it’s shaping up to be a very different careers fair. If you or your organisation would like to participate or co-sponsor, please email land@seda.scot

Brilliant LFG this evening on finishes in South India by Thirumalini Selvaraj. I loved that conservation was secured by interviewing locals 100+ yrs old. Recipes for limewash just about surviving time. For me it highlighted loss of craft but also creativity. Lots to think about #archaeology #craft

Lime Finishers, I have sent the link out for tomorrow nights Lime Finishes Group talk by Professor Thirumalini Selvaraj. It strikes me that we have so much to learn from India and other places that didn't abandon traditional practice and materials. Do check your inboxes and junk folders. Best, T.

Mystery solved, thank you.

Surface finishes is supposed to be the subject. Distracted by you own wonky reflection eh?

🚫 Despite all the negativity in the media about electric vehicles not selling:

⬆️ ⬆️ ⬆️ 24% more EVs were sold in 2024 than in 2023.

Graphic from @nathanielbullard.com

Total cost of ownership of heat pumps and policy choice: The case of Great Britain Heat pumps are essential for decarbonizing heating, as shown by numerous studies. Their adoption depends significantly on economic attractiveness. Usi…

When we looked at the total cost of ownership of heat pumps in the UK I was surprised by this finding:

Heat pumps with only slightly above average efficiency already today reach cost parity with gas boilers after the government grant.

More here👇

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Any interesting lime or mortar related references?

An opportunity missed...

Painting of a woman in an interior with her back to the viewer with one foot up on a chair and arms resting on a window ledge as she looks out of the window, she wears a long grey skirt and yellow top with white lace

Portuguese born artist Paula Rego, Looking Out, 1997 #WomensArt

"At the end of another day....., I sat in the evening sun and took a few moments to myself."
Cat Moore,
contemporary UK printmaker
#WomensArt

Not long left to go! Come and see our exhibition which will be a culmination of our research and debut some art pieces as a result!

#archaeology #history #paper #print #devon #exeter #exhibition #art #research

Not just bad - unfathomable.

The relaxing of the entire industry created an incalculable number of addicts. With the growth of smart phone tech the problem exploded. Don’t get me started on the Lottery. Makes me so angry. What were Labour imagining would happen?

Bits and pieces from the East Neuk of Fife

Harl, limewash and wriggly tin, Sutherland, the Highlands.

A close-up of three irregularly shaped blue pigment balls.One is slightly smaller than the other two.

Egyptian blue pigment found in Augusta Raurica, Switzerland. The pigments were used in wall paintings. In #Roman times, Egyptian blue was distributed throughout the Empire in a more or less standardised form of small balls of 15-20 mm in diameter. 🧵 1/2

📷 me

🏺 AncientBluesky #archaeology

About every ten years or so here. Warm and wet seems to be the norm though.

And to you and yours Kate. No snow, again! ⛄️

And, of course, the lottery paid for that dreadful and badly positioned interpretation panel.

Those bottles were made for it….. 🤭

A very interesting morning visit to Sutton Scarsdale with @limefinishes.bsky.social today, looking at various elements of this impressive Georgian building (adapted from an earlier house). Here’s some of the beautiful decorative plaster 😍🤩

Is it just! I second it though.

Continuation of the oil paint on the window, perhaps?

Lime Finishers, the 2025 Programme has gone out: it's Packed!!! . I want take the opportunity to thank all of you who took the time to put talks together and those of you who came along to engage in vigorous but respectful and supportive debate in 2024 - this is at the heart of the LFG.