I feel it's just pleased to see you.

Oops.

First known use as a verb is 1905, as a noun 1948, I learn.

Waulk Mill, spelled Wauk Mill, on a laye 1800s OS map

Waulk Mill, now spelled Walk Mill, on a 1900 OS map

This (pick & choose your own spelling) one?

* maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/...

Canmore say "Cockburn refuted earlier suggestions that it was the site of a broch" (1876 visit, 1878 paper by G Gordon) so the thought that one of those round thingies was there must have been in the early literature?

Yes; I'm reluctant to engage :(

OS map os a promentory on which a Capel (in ruins) is marked, along with an antique font 'Brongh'. There's a skerry to the east marked 'Castle of the Brough', and a scattering of other skerries.

In fairness, Deerness is a Brongh :)

* maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/...

I probably have to play some Led Zeppelin now.

One or other of us should check the name book...

Dam of Hoxa, an otherwise unassuming north-facing bay on South Ronaldsay; it's kinda D-shaped, surrounded by fields and to the east & west a rocky shoreline.

Only those two bits, according to my quick shuftie through GB1900. Interesting word to apply in both cases.

* maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/...

Anyway: the full SP from Canmore.

(Also, take ropes, according to recently retired regional archaeologist Val Turner, who's the one, err, dangling, having fallen off the knife-edge approach ridge.)

www.trove.scot/place/883#de...

The monastic location argument goes: to hide from the vikings.

Building your hobbiton on a sea stack to avoid being seen by seafarers seems like a stretch.

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Sea stack depicted on a 1900 OS map, showing 15 or so rectangular hut outlines, but with a label 'brough'.

This 1900s cartographer had drawn enough brochs by then to know that this was not such a thing. What was (presumably) he thinking?

Kame of Isbister, Mainland, Shetland. Posited as a mid C9th monastic settlement.

* maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/...

It's interesting, of course. Where does the street between the two rows of houses come from; seems unsupported by the remains. Why are the houses 2-story (?), rather than, say, blackhouses? Where on a treeless island do the fence stakes come from?

That seems like a shit take, Brendon.

Hielanman's Umbrella - Wikipedia

Probably picked up from the Wikipedia article.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hielanm...

What would the cost be if they had a magic carpet and a genie?

Why? You seemed to be having some difficulty parsing Zara's post.

Persian Gulf != Red Sea. They're about 900 miles apart.

More fool than liar, but I'll let you choose.

Apart from you seemingly not knowing what an ancestor is, the possibility that you can trace your lineage to the 1300s seems vanishingly small. But you do you, if it makes you happy.

afaik there's no evidence that Wallace was married, much less that he had children. So, amazing claim, GealFaol.

You know Dan, even though this is Bluesky, I have not seen in a long time someone with less of a clue than you. Good job mate.

YouTube video by NTSBgov NTSB Media Briefing 1 - UPS MD-11 Cargo Aircraft Crash, Louisville, KY

I watched him giving the NTSB briefings after the Louisville UPS MD-11 Cargo Aircraft Crash last year; he was impressive.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rw6C...

That does seem to be exactly what they did, Caio. School sure got bombed. School sure was close to a military base. Not unreasonable to suppose school had daughters of soldiers & officers in it, non?

Still doesn't answer the question; there's a world of difference between that scene and the current state.

You may not think any other outcome was possible. You may be right.

You may not be right. The possibility is we fight such fires in an antediluvian way.

Probably how it started. That's not the answer to my q.

Smoke eminates from a ground floor shop, fire truck on scene

Complete four story building gutted by a raging fire

ngl, I kinda wonder how the Glasgow fire got from this to that /with/ the fire brigade on scene.

Meticulous, well-argued and generally fascinating Words? What do they mean? article just dropped.

Sandy Irvine Robertson's a big lad.

Yes, but, falls under "The ICC; how many divisions has it got?"