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September 6, 2019
Eel be seeing you
This just in: Loch Ness Monster may be a giant eel. Somebody did a 23andMe on ol’ Nessie’s bathwater and no dinosaur residue was found. Time to change his name to Unagi.
July 31, 2019
Talkin’ aboot wir language
when we buried my partner a few weeks ago, I addressed the mourners gathered at her graveside
at the pub afterwards, several folk commented on how scottish I had sounded
this didn’t surprise me – since I moved to England 35 years ago, I have dropped uniquely scottish words from my vocabulary and adopted english instead of scottish pronunciation of common words so folk can understand what I’m saying, but when I’m angry, stressed, or emotional I unconsciously slip back into using scottish words and pronunciation, so I found this ted talk on the scottish language interesting – his early school experience exactly mirrored my own
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July 29, 2019
I’ll go halfsies with ya, Dunc
Scottish Island for sale, comes with ferry, must love cows.
July 21, 2019
The Silence of Scotland
‘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’
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.
