Colin Speirs 🌧️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Middle Scots is weird and wonderful

In to thir dirk and drublie dayis,
Quhone sabill all the hewin arrayis
With mystie vapouris, cluddis and skyis,
Nature all curage me denyis
Off sangis, ballattis, and of playis…

—William Dunbar (c.1459–1530), “Meditatioun in Wyntir”
#poem #poetry #medievalsky

Please, Goll-ooom

And Tor-eene

The scratchy voice King of the Elves and slightly squeaky dwarves

I do like Bilbo interrupting and arguing with the narrator, who is not Gandalf, but sounds as if he should be

You should try listening to the 1968 R4 "The Hobbit"

A flipping hoot!

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Did the same thing with ME/CFS, painting chronically knackered, brain-fogged folk as violent jihadists

Can't wait for JKR to start complaining that someone at the next table has got an illegally large/small helping of chips.

Yeah, this is a great point. Young people are probably more attuned and immune to the modern world of bullshit than us oldies.

Small bunnies are having a snowball fight. Two 'teams' are facing each other from behind opposite chest-height walls made of snow. The group closest to us, outnumbered, is being hit with volleys of snowballs. However, one bunny gestures towards the opposing side, rallying his friends to fight back

Daily bunny no.3162 is preparing to charge

Just finished the 1968 "The Hobbit" audio drama

Following that with 1980's "Hordes of the Things"

Slight tone shift 🤣

Clue could also have been one I could have picked, because, well, it's Clue

I can't remember which ending we saw in the cinema though

The built in animated gif does not cater for a lot of my options

"A Stage 3 Guild Navigator...."

#thewarbetweenthelandandthesea

You could watch it here, but it is a bit far to go

Ah Roger Delgado. Sadly missed

Yup

But I just saw that can, thought "that looks like the Liver Bird" and in the comments the location of the brewery confirmed it

But it was the boid that was the clue

I suspected that was the Liver Bird

Bring a Liverpool brewery it makes sense

My WIP is about Pictish symbol stones and modern international politics/misinformation.

(It’ll make sense eventually.)

Still early days but one of the big challenges is drawing Celtic knotwork. Every single pattern has to be learned from scratch.

Still, I’m pretty excited about it.

Gotta admit, I’m confused as to why e-sports have gendered competitions at all?

Look, I bought figures for 5p, board wargames for £1.95 and RPGs for £3.95 and I have no concept either of inflation or improved RPG quality....

2016, Gareth Thomas, yeah

In "Hatefully Eight", the reveal of the character who hates Mexicans as black just seemed like Tarantino going "See! SEEE! THEY'RE THE RACISTS!"

Not that you could ever accuse me of being a fan of his, never mind his copying other films

Horrid fact

Eurotrash can now be seen on nostalgia TV channel, mostly showing 50s - 70s TV, Talking Pictures TV

Feeling very old

YouTube video by Miss Piggy - Topic Santa Baby

youtu.be/cdP1uvycLWg

Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho'
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

For me, watching wee groups of turnstones working the shore near the promenade or at Ardbeg on Bute, or seeing Oystercatchers flying overhead in seabird solidarity colours of black and white

/salute

It was 1988, so £8 seems about right

Screenshot from a music streaming Raspberry Pi showing vangelis albums

Wellll, guilty as charged

I once treated a Edinburgh bus stop like a Glasgow one. Having been first in the queue, the bus was second and I went up to it

The good folk of Edinburgh seized me, placed me in a pillory on The Mound and pelted me with rotten fruit

Oh sorry. I have not been paying much attention to BluSky and missed this

I am so sorry for your OH and yourself. Seeing Luath in the park always brought a ray of sunshine to my wife and I, a delightful beast

And she seemed to bring you such joy

Sad news. Our sympathies to you both