Exit Stage Left – Crrow ?

Saturday, 11 April 2020, 13:27.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Sorry. Too little. Too Late :o(

If U Can’t Do the Vibe. U Ain’t in THE Tribe|Clan

Saturday, 11 April 2020, 13:21.Reading time 1 minute.

It is the fundamental urge of all living creatures to re-produce, to seek protection in the safety of numbers and to seek order through some form of social harmony. As human beings differ little from this, all over the world from the beginning of recorded time societies have existed, which have bound it’s population together […]

Viking Thunder Clap

Saturday, 11 April 2020, 12:23.Reading time less than 1 minute.

From whence cometh this primeval CALL to Arms? Wiki : Thunder Clap Motherwell F.C? Iceland? 300? With Gerard the Scottish actor who could NEVER quite Unholywood trained disguise his accent? IMHO – I don’t care. I LOVE THIS V iking V IBE :o)

Calling in Walter Scott

Saturday, 11 April 2020, 11:57.Reading time less than 1 minute.

It WAS Sir Walter Scott who wrote the quote above. I’ve been to Princes Street, Edinburgh a few times. I HAVE stood in front of this, a few times. I adore HIS quote and EVERY single connection that I have with it. P.S. I missed out THREE VITAL letters from my late Mum’s maiden […]

Iris of the Rainbow

Friday, 10 April 2020, 12:28.Reading time 1 minute.

Wiki : Iris The Greek goddess Iris is…Goddess of the Rainbow, Fertility, Colours, the Sea, Heraldry, the Sky, Truth, and Oaths. About a thousand years ago I asked a simple question in one of the very first live chats I’d ever commented in. It was – “What is a rainbow?” OhMY! What a […]

Scottish Prayer

Thursday, 9 April 2020, 17:21.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Thank you :o)

A Bunch of Weirdos in Glencoe

Thursday, 9 April 2020, 15:53.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Two girls and a few more men. I was the one carrying the only heavy burgen across a ridge so narrow that it was onefootinfrontoftheotherwide. The lassie with me – on the descent – slipped on the scree. Took half the skin off her back. And spent weeks healing. Men? Soldiers? Warriors? Sunbathing? Laughing? Posing? […]

I Deny Everything

Thursday, 9 April 2020, 14:36.Reading time less than 1 minute.

I’ve NEVER watched the X-Files. NEVER listened to and loved Simple Minds. NEVER said a single thing out of turn! Denial is easy :o)

SONSIE

Thursday, 9 April 2020, 13:18.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Let’s start with Dictionary of the Scots Language. Dictionar o the Scots Leid Or go with the Scots Vernacular. When a Scottish man calls a Woman Sonsie – It’s a HUGE compliment :o)

Russ Abbot | Funny Man :o)

Thursday, 9 April 2020, 12:55.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Basildon Bond and Miss Funny Fanny Or See You Jimmy MacJimmy Or CooperMan and BlunderWoman Take your pick!

SATNAV vs NATional SAViour?

Wednesday, 8 April 2020, 16:26.Reading time less than 1 minute.

I don’t EVER use SAVNAV. I aced map reading in HM Forces Training (!) I am a pretty hooman good, but not entirely perfect, navigator? That’ll be 3 times I’ve MeNav drivers round the Paris Périphérique using my 17th C French history research on les Portes de Paris (?) Sat Nav Fails Storm Ali Scotland […]

COLD – Written by Annie

Wednesday, 8 April 2020, 14:06.Reading time less than 1 minute.

One of the MANY beautiful songs that she has written. 1992 – if I’m not mistaken. 8 years after I saw her live in a dingy back room in a not well known club in Berlin. I love my Aberdonian lassie :o)

The Ravens of Dinefwr is the first in a series of novels-in-progress set in the early 12th century. It follows the dispossessed members of the South Wales House of Dinefwr from their origins in Deheubarth to the centre of the known world, Jerusalem. Come and be my fellow Far-Farer. Come travelling and unravelling with me through Wales, Norway, Ireland, England, Scotland, France, Russia, Constantinople, Italy, the Balkans, the Holy Land. Come and Far-Fare through every degree on my 12th century compass.