Investors gambling on limited edition prints of modern art lose five and six figure sums as much of their money - and the art - seems to have disappeared bit.ly/3YbVkKC Always avoid a market you know nothing about. Art is to hang on your wall not keep in a Swiss vault.

Garden visitor this morning. A fierce looking female Sparrowhawk with a Wood Pigeon.

Glasgow in 1980 by Raymond Depardon. He was commissioned to photograph Glasgow for the Sunday Times but his photos were considered too bleak to publish at the time.

Sec of State Liz Kendall promises to ‘put things right’ in the scandal of carers losing all their benefit for going a penny over the earnings limit and being left with thousands of pounds of debt because of DWP indolence bit.ly/401QSAH

A Snow Lady, 1892.

A stroll around North Berwick this morning

Sister’s latest painting ’Tunnocks Sea Cake’.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... An excellent piece by John Harris on why Badenoch is wrong and more importantly, is dangerous.

What kind of person would drag autistic children into the culture wars? The Kemi Badenoch kind | John Harris

The Tory leadership hopeful paints a picture of special treatment. As the father of an autistic child, I can tell you that’s a lie, says Guardian columnist John Harris

The Ladybird Land car factory (as captured in ‘Look and Learn’ magazine, 1964)