James Clerk Maxwell

Today's the day .................... to embroider

A long-anticipated visit today in the company of good friends John and Roma to see the Great Tapestry of Scotland in its permanent home in Galashiels, in the Scottish Borders.

Beautifully portrayed in some 160 brightly coloured embroidered panels, is the people's history of Scotland, made by a thousand of those people.  The stories start with the Ice Age and end with opening of the Scottish Parliament, covering a rich and varied variety of subjects in between.  The picture above is a small section of the panel on James Clerk Maxwell, the brilliant but often underestimated Scottish Physicist, born in Edinburgh in 1831, who brought a series of equations, experiments and observations about electricity, optics and magnetism together into a consistent theory.

It would have been easy to spend a whole week in the exhibition and still have plenty to discover.  If you get the chance, it's an absolute treat to go and see it . . . . .  . . .