Macro Insects
Bumblebee
A shiny metallic fly
EV Day Trip to Edinburgh
We took a trip to Edinburgh and up to Wallace Monument this week. This is somewhat for folk who drive electric vehicles and those interested in doing so.
Old Scottish Bird Poetry
Gaelic Names of Beasts has some poems for birds in Scots and Gàidhlig. I've transcribed a few here:
Group-names for a selection of birds
- Covey of partridges
- Hide of pheasants
- Wisp of snipe
- Bevy of quails
- Flight or doyes of swallows
- Muster of peacocks
- Siege of herons
- Building of rooks
- Brood of grouse
- Plump of wildfowl
- Stand of plovers
- Cast of hawks
- Watch of nightingales
- Clattering of choughs
- Flock of geese source: Alexander Robert Forbes, Gaelic Names of Beasts, 1905, p 236
I always like to hear/read the different collective names for animals, they're never samey.
Gaelic crisis in the Vernacular Community – thread unroll
This is in relation to a video-conference conducted by UHI, which is linked below, there will also be a pdf of the chat as it happened.
thread unroll
- Tha mi air bhioran airson an conference seo!
Wee trip to Inverewe Gardens
We took an impromptu trip to visit NTS Inverewe Gardens on the west coast.
I cannot recommend visiting there enough. We've visited a few times and every time the flora are magnificent. Depending on what time of year you'll see different plants in flower or fruit.
I couldn't help but take some photos to share with folk.
Up West
Tour up to Durness, down to Ullapool and back via Corrieshalloch; a photo blog.
Book Review (of sorts)
Recently finished Lost Connections by Johann Hari.
After reading Chasing the Scream and it having such a changing effect on my views around drug use and reform I was looking forward to this book.
A wee look at Gàidhlig war poetry from Jacobites and the World Wars.
Poetry from the First and Second World Wars have few similarities to the poetry of earlier conflict, like Jacobite poetry, though they in places seem to be used as an homage or link to the poetry of earlier conflict. Far greater are the number of differences, most notably in tone, characterisation and style.