‘Only in silence can we hear the song of nature. Natural silence is not the absence of sound from nature it is the absence of noise from modern life’
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July 6, 2019
England likes its corpse roads
“The practice of roaming freely has led to many clashes over the years, usually with landowners, so the government has determined that every historic byway and thoroughfare must be mapped by 2026, or private land rights will take precedence over traditional mobility.”
So, if you’ve got a corpse road, coffin route, bier way, lychway, burial road, or church way in yer back yard, better get filing.
June 3, 2019
Gaol ise Gaol i
Waulking songs are Scottish folk songs, traditionally sung in the Gaelic language by women while fulling cloth. This practice involved a group of women rhythmically beating newly woven tweed against a table or similar surface to soften it. Simple, beat-driven songs were used to accompany the work – Wikipedia
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June 1, 2019
Lords of the Isles – Finlaggan
the Lords of the Isles ruled over the Hebrides and parts of mainland Scotland and Ulster during the 15th Century from their base on the islands of Eilean Mor (or Large Isle) and Eilean na Comhairle (or Council Isle) on Loch Finlaggan on Islay
‘Drawing on the findings of the Finlaggan Archaeological Project, researchers at the University of St Andrews and Smart History have created a new digital reconstruction of Finlaggan as it may have appeared in the fifteenth century – in the latter phase of its medieval glory days’
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more info – here
April 21, 2019
Friendly Neighbours
a guy gets drunk at a party, leaves to get a taxi home, misses it, and decides to return to the party and wait there till the morning
when he re-enters the house where the party was held, it’s all quiet, the guests have all left,and the owners of the house have gone to bed, so he makes himself some pot noodles in the kitchen, then falls asleep on the sofa
in the morning, when the householders wake him up, he discovers he is in the wrong house
as one commentator on youtube says- ‘if this had happened in the US this poor fellow probably would’ve been shot‘
as it’s Scotland, however, when the householders find a strange man sleeping in their living room, they offer him a cigarette and a cup of tea . . .
February 23, 2019
It’s no Edinboro
a wee video listing some interesting things about Scotland for anyone who doesn’t know much about the country
ye’d think though that if someone went to the trouble of researching and producing a video about Scotland, they’d take the time to learn how to pronounce the name of the country’s capital city, Edinburgh – it’s Edinbrruh (where the ‘u’ is pronounced as is the’u’ in the word ‘up’) but most definitely NOT Edinboro !
February 5, 2019
Kilt Roulette
If we had shows like this in America, I might start watching television again.
