Henry Raeburn's 'The Reverend Robert Walker skating on Duddingston Loch' is a well-known Scottish painting. I've always liked the playful way it suggests the rather prim, buttoned-up Presbyterianism of Scotland's capital city, and as a glance at my profile picture will confirm, the good Reverend and I were clearly cut from the same cloth. However, the painting also ties in with the Scottish Parliament building because it seems that those hideous pistol-shaped decorations beside the windows are actually meant to be a visual reference to it. As the late Ivor Cutler would say, oh dearie me.