Exploring Famous Scottish Painter’s Abandoned Castle
The brilliant Desertify Urbex people. Oh My Giddy Aunt! To Whom it Should Concern…Why-fore are there Cathar stripes and crescent moons on Scottish coats of arms?????? Gotcha :o)
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Ailish. Check her Out
Beautiful Over the Sea to the Fairies (and Skye) Thanks, lass :o)
Read MoreNow THAT is What I Call a ROAD
Poncy auto 4×4, my arse. You need an old fashioned manual/achy/breaky/leaky/lary/seatofyerpants/if you get beyond 50mph start praying….. Short Wheel Based Defender. I miss mine sooooo much ;o( Rewind. Back to the present. URBEX. Exploring with Alec – Praying Hands of Mary
Read MoreFair is Foul and Foul is Fair
Moving on from the Prince of Elsinore or maybe Australia… Shrug! Ken Bran also did The Scottish Play Feeling a teeny bit dizzy maintenant mes braves. (?) Wrong country. My bad
Read MoreRed Hair
Wow. I had to trawl my archives for that image. Amazon no longer sells the book with this cover! Wiki : Early Slavs Wiki : Red Headed League There’s more. Mummies in China. Hamish Macbeth. Andronicus I Comnenus had red/gold hair Mary Magdalene had red hair, Blahdeblah
Read MoreInspired by a reference to Walking Statues
How Does Birnham Wood Come to Dunsinane in Shakespeare’s Macbeth? Credit: Print Collector/Hulton Fine Art Collection/Getty Images In William Shakespeare’s “MacBeth,” Birnham Wood comes to Dunsinane in the form of Malcolm’s army camouflaged with boughs from the trees of the forest. The military action is first suggested by Duncan in Act V, Scene 4, Lines 6-9.When […]
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Polo
Researching the Mamluk cards, I had a little thought. They have the usual four suits but instead of wands, the staffs are called Polo sticks. Wiki : Polo That makes sense but the “sticks” look, to me, more like Shinty than Polo. Wiki : Shinty Curiouser and curiouser said […]
Read MoreA Modern Take on Highland History
I despair. Great video though from Desertify Urbex
Read MoreMy Least Favourite Sayings…
#1…. M’eh. Too exhausted to play that game. Let’s skip to – Predictive Programming. Shudder, This was filmed in 1990. I don’t wear a watch. Did someone turn the clock off and not tell me ?
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One of my fave episodes. I watched it again yesterday. The Govan way to expose “Holier than Thou” people. And the reason why i do not and have never done CHURCH! Subtitles needed (?)
Read MoreDál Riata
Or the anglicised Dalriada if you prefer. Wiki – FastbecomingmyBestBSFriend : Dál Riata My late father had jet black hair and light grey eyes. Traditional Irish colouring. First footing? Hogmanay? Tall, dark haired man? Irish/Scottish/Welsh. I KNOW my ancestry. And my history. Just saying :o)
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Hidden History Research 