One thing = North Ayrshire Council said: “Yes” – not knowing what kind of scribble graffiti they have to defend for 3 years. A great Council with a vision.

Not everyone can see here a touch of Hieronimus Bosch and a remarkable presence of Friedensreich Hundertwasser.

Luckily, die Kleingeister, the small bore did not get the upper hand.

Kelburn Castle still shines in Sao Paulo Crew colours and is mainly loved. To be also nice to the critics, a further consent could be given for every 3 – 5 years, till everyone got tired of it. But ending the permission should not mean to remove it. Applying a deep coating through to the stone structure and a colourless top coating followed by a separation coating will make it long lasting and able to carry an additional layer of historic beige-grey paint, easy removable after centuries . . .

. . . which cold happen in half a millennium time of – still Clan Boile occupation when . . .

. . . an Andromeda space ship congestion parks high above – now Great-Ayrshire – losing a sewage icicle, piercing the long forgotten Brazilian art work. This recovering attracts interstellar interests crowned by a festival with far outmatching intendancy numbers of Notting Hill Carnival.

There is great future in Ayrshire. HMB 30.8.2011

regarding your blog entry – ‘Historic Scotland Insists Graffiti has to go at Kelburn Castle’.

This is not, and has never been the case.

Unfortunately there were a number of inaccuracies within your article – I assume you got the information from an article in Scotland on Sunday, written by Mark Smith?

We wrote a letter to Scotland on Sunday alongside Lord Glasgow, in order to complain about the amount of misleading information.

Both letters were printed.

I would be grateful if you could also print both letters in order to set the record straight,

Best wishes

Jennifer Johnston-Watt

Communications and Media Officer

Here is the letter:

Dear Letters Editor,

I am writing with regard to the article, Graffiti has to go, insists heritage body, published in today’s Scotland on Sunday, 5th September 2010.

I would like to clarify the following inaccuracies:

• Historic Scotland has not stepped in and ordered the removal of the graffiti from Kelburn Castle and will not be doing so in the future.

• Although we have had meetings with the Castle’s owners and North Ayrshire Council these have not been specifically to discuss the removal of the artwork.

• We were happy to support this exciting and innovative project. The artwork is a celebration of Kelburn Castle’s importance as a historic building and has attracted many visitors to the Estate.

The following statement was issued to Scotland on Sunday on 3rd September 2010.

“Listed building consent was granted by North Ayrshire Council in 2007 for a period of three years to accommodate the artwork. The artwork is a celebration of Kelburn Castle’s importance as a historic building. In time the existing cement render will be replaced by a traditional coating of harling.

“Work to remove the graffiti along with the cement render and to apply harling may need listed building consent if the Council decides that the work will affect the character of the building. Historic Scotland is very happy to continue to advise the Council as necessary.”

Yours faithfully

Ranald MacInnes,

Historic Scotland’s Principal Inspector for Glasgow and the south west

Where I live, we have an issue with Cumbernauld Castle! We are fighting to prevent it being bought over by developers that want to turn it into flats.

Its big news here. Mary Queen of Scots stayed here and it was also gifted to the people of Cumbernauld by Robert The Bruce himself!

Hopefully all will work out in the end!