The Man Who Walked Around The World

This short film is the best tribute to Scotland's finest product I've ever seen in my life.

If there was an Academy award for cinema adverts this would certainly be the winner...brilliant, superbly written and executed.

Self-Portrait

Well, not quite.



The credit goes to the talented Emily Burrowes, one of my favorite artists. How can she do so much with so little is what amazes me the most because she doesn't seem to need too many shades to convey the most representative look of a Westie. I know it, I've been there. It's exactly the same expression I've seen every time I check in the mirror and discover that this other dog I've been furiously barking at for endless hours is no other but myself.

You can find this poster in different sizes and ready for framing along with other similar works by Emily at Allposters.com

Westies in the Wind

For many centuries, weather vanes, have decorated the tops of buildings in many places all over the world.

The weather vane honors the ancient documented Greek god Triton, which adorned the Tower of Winds in Athens. It was built by the astronomer Andronicus in 48 BC. This figure, believed to have been 5 to 7 feet had the head and torso of a man and the tail of a fish. In Greece and pre-Christian Rome, these weather vanes alluded to other mythic gods such as Boreas, Aeolus, Hermes and Mercury, and were used to decorate the villas of rich landowners.

In the nineteenth century, the King of Scotland decreed the mandate that every house in Glasgow should exhibit a Westie on the roof as a reminder of the all adagio which went "the Westie shall not bark, the morning after Sunday nor he shall roll on the mud more than three times"

Given this history, "Westie weather vanes" have crowned the roofs of countless houses for more than one century, both in Scotland and America.