A wee article looking at gart in Clackmannanshire by me...
clog.glasgow.ac.uk/ojs/index.ph...
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A wee article looking at gart in Clackmannanshire by me...
clog.glasgow.ac.uk/ojs/index.ph...
Oh, interesting! I'd love to see it written up!
17.11.2025 23:15 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Phew...! π
30.10.2025 13:18 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I drew a few maps for Simon Taylor's Rhind lectures and I felt so guilty and annoyed (especially having dug on Shetland) at not putting Shetland in its proper place. But I think I can just about justify it by saying the maps were of Gaelic cill-names and British/Pictish eccles names, but still...π
29.10.2025 23:58 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Phone the school and tell them she's spewing like a dog at the thought of that perverted decrepit old cunt visiting...
19.10.2025 23:28 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Well, I wouldn't go that far! I've written a couple of things in two of these books...!! π
02.10.2025 12:53 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The Place-names of Fife, Kinross-shire, Clackmannanshire, and Bute all have sections on Gaelic.
02.10.2025 12:34 β π 0 π 1 π¬ 0 π 1Please allow me to introduce myself/
I'm a man of wealth and taste/ I've been around for a long, long year/
Stole many a man's soul and faith...
@willdalrymple.bsky.social I'm reading your magnificent Golden Road, and I've reached where Xuanzang is in India, including Patna. It's quite the coincidence that the village in Ayrshire you are named from is close to a name transferred from India that appears in your book!
29.09.2025 23:08 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I wouldn't trust that c@nt if he told me there was water in the sea!!
25.09.2025 12:14 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Is it just me or does Rapture Day come earlier each year...?
22.09.2025 22:25 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I spent the 1st 15 years of working life finishing at 1.30 pm on a Friday. Then I went to uni at the age of 32. I had one class at 2 pm on a Friday and I was outraged...! π€£
12.09.2025 06:33 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I went to my local Co-op and there was plenty of what she is looking for there. I even bought one for myself.
01.09.2025 07:08 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0My wife is currently a senior nurse and this would be fairly unrecognisable to her (apart from the basics), especially the uniform, which changed before she started her training in 2006.
23.08.2025 09:26 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0There are some of this series here, including the Nurse - archive.org/details/the-...
22.08.2025 20:06 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0My grandfather fought in WW2, he wouldn't agree with this idiot. In all his life he never came near one part of the Empire, with the exception of Gibraltar. Even then he didn't see it, cos he passed it in the dark while part of Operation Torch!
17.08.2025 20:26 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0No idea, I've never stood still long enough around the little blighters to find out!!
12.08.2025 15:37 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Or even Bridge of Allan!
12.08.2025 14:38 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0In my part of central Scotland, near Stirling and Dumyat, we were hating fish long before it was woke, as Cassius Dio testified in his book. We also didn't like shoes or clothes...
12.08.2025 13:58 β π 19 π 1 π¬ 3 π 0Or wasps...! π¬
12.08.2025 12:23 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Interesting. I just wondered cos I've never seen such a movie with other zombie beings and wondered if it was only a human thing or just lack of imagination or detail on the part of film makers?
12.08.2025 12:11 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0See in zombie movies, right? How come we never see zombie cats and dogs? And could there be zombie cows, birds, or ants, even, if an infected person was to bite them or whatever it is they do..?
12.08.2025 12:03 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Congratulations, Geraldine! A magnificent achievement!
01.08.2025 16:41 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Yes, but can you imagine the angst and panic if it happened in the mid teens, such as the hour or two before the prom date arrives, for example...!
25.07.2025 21:06 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Currently reading Fredrik Logevall's Embers of War and the French paras have just jumped out of their planes! Fab book!
18.07.2025 10:31 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Err, any old rubbish from the Big Book that took her fancy and could be used to justify her decision...?
10.07.2025 19:58 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Academia recently did an AI review of my PhD thesis! I pressed delete...
10.07.2025 15:07 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Lools fab! Is it available on Amazon yet...? π€
01.07.2025 10:10 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0My wee Half-tache sends hugs.
22.06.2025 22:15 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Yeah, but, she was far too busy helping get us that perfect Brexit and sorting out our immigration problem...
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