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Normans, how the people lived.
How they lived in the times of the Normans. The Norman king was the ruler of the kingdom. The King owned the land and the forests, He gave land to the barons and to the abbots, who knelt down and, placing their hands in his, promised to be his men, to...
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Kestrel nesting on Forth Bridge
A pair of kestrels have decided to make a landmark Scottish bridge which carries 80,000 vehicles a day their ideal home. The inside of a steel girder on the Forth Road Bridge in Edinburgh has become the birds' choice to bring up a family. Bridge workers...
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Cycling in Skye
There is a cycle path alongside the A87 between Kyleakin and Broadford on Skye. It is tarmacced, but heavily overgrown with heather from both sides to the extent you could easily cycle the stretch and not notice it. If it was revived, it provides access...
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Normans, how the people lived. 3
How the people lived during the Norman times. A villein in Norman times might have to do those things: Plough 4 acres about 1 ½ hectares) for his lord in the spring. Lend him 2 oxen for 7 days a year. Work 3 days a week on his domain (land). Pay 1 hen...
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Tomorrow an iceberg from Iceland will arrive in Glasgow
An iceberg has been painted on a plane A hand-painted, glacier-themed plane The Vatnajokull glacier-themed aircraft as part of celebrations to mark its 80th anniversary this year. The plane has been spray-painted by hand by a team of artists who took...
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Emma of Normandy
. Emma of Normandy was yet another of those intriguing Medieval women of whom there is only a small account in the modern chronicles of history but whose presence and actions spawned a new period of English history. Queen Emma was born in about 990 AD...
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Scottish Gaelic in Canada
gaelic 1901 Scottish Gaelic was the third-most spoken European language at the time of (Canadian) Confederation. And yet today, apart from scattered homesteads in Nova Scotia, not only has the language receded from the immigrant communities that once...
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Normans, how the people lived. 8
How the people lived during the Norman times. In the Norman village, besides the stone manor-house, there were the church and the cross, the priest's house and twenty or thirty huts for the villeins. These were made of wattle and daub (wicker and mud)...
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Oysters are to be re-introduced to Scotland
Wild native Oysters are to be re-introduced to Scotland They are being put into cages so as not to be washed away with the tides They are being promoted by Scottish whisky so as to purify their waste Oysters are brilliant for sea-life There used to be...
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Facebook, Google, and Amazon are monopolists robber barons
Facebook, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Apple are the monopolists robber barons of our digital age. They are a threat to the market economy and free competition. They are a threat to millions of jobs of 1000s of smaller companies. They don't pay their...
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Joking cats in entertainment.
What does a cat eat for dessert? A mice cream cone! What do you call a feline that has been caught stealing? A cat burglar! What do you call a cat that’s the best at everything? A purr-fect cat! What is the difference between Christmas and a cat in a...
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Jesteście dla mnie mili.
Jesteś refers to one person, so it can be followed by "miły/miła" (m/f) depending of the gender of the person you refer to. "miłe" (n) is possible, but referring to a person you are talking to with neuter form is rare Jesteście refers to more than one...
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The World's first door to door Poet in Gateshead
The next stop as a Door-to-Door Poet was in Bensham. It’s common knowledge that there’s a big mix of religions and nationalities living there, especially Orthodox Jewish and Eastern European. The Comfrey is the project about meeting as many different...
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Atlantic Salmon
Atlantic Salmon are often referred to as the “silver tourist” and “the king of fish”, it’s undoubtedly Scotland’s most iconic species. They are an anadromous species meaning they migrate from the ocean to spawn in freshwater at the place they were born....
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Mon beau chevalier de divine loyauté by MasterZsword
Mon beau chevalier de divine loyauté Drapé dans la cape de force Mais, son esprit touché par l'impureté Transforma le chant de guerre en une complainte… My beautiful knight of divine loyalty Wrapped one in the cloak of might But, his mind was touched...
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How to cook a pancake with chocolate
First we get a metal bowl. Najpierw bierzemy metalową miskę. Następnie bierzemy jajko. Then we got an egg {1} Następnie bierzemy jajko. Then we cracked the egg with a knife We then whisked the egg. We then added a wee drop of milk We then added two tablespoons...
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The adventure of the Lego Doctor Who.
Daleks were crowding their special living places where darkness was crushing out the light. Dr Who was sorting out the letters. The letters wore a spot. A little tiny dot with a letter Robots were in their dark places. One of the dark places was much...
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In Flanders Fields by John McCrae:
In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved...
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A Cat in the Belfry.
Throwing cats to their death from a belfry is celbrated in Ypres. There was problem in castles, churches and ships during the medieval time. There was a problem of vermin which had to be controlled. A town in Germany. Hamelin employed a musician. However...
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Carlos the Jackal in trial again.
Carlos the Jackal. In 1974 there was a bomb that went off. Now after all these years there is Trial A terrorist from Venezuela is accused. That bomb was in a Shop in Paris. and that attack costed the lives of two men. The trial may heal or simply re-open...
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"Britishness". What does it now mean.
The different nations of the British Islands should be working together as equals but now it is now a period of inequality . Could this still have the 300 year old political union continue in its current form in this unfair union to it's peoples. What...
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Songbirds poaching in Cyprus.
In Cyprus last year nearly 1.7 million birds were illegally killed in the Republic of Cyprus. There is a place in Cyprus spot that half of the migratory bird species from Europe, Africa and the Middle East stop in Cyprus for a break. On the black market...
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Sir Derek Alton Walcott, KCSL OBE OCC (23 January 1930 – 17 March 2017)
T - Sir Derek Alton Walcott , KCSL OBE OCC (23 January 1930 – 17 March 2017) The Bounty 1997 This is the right light, this pewter shine on the water,not the carnage of clouds, not the expected wonderof self-igniting truth and oracular rains,but these...
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Sentences: the subject and the predicate. What are they?
Sentences: the subject and the predicate. What are they? Every simple sentence can be divided into two parts. The subject tells you who or what is doing something (the person or thing which the sentence is about): Alistair The predicate tells you what...
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Facebook may now pay the price of Hate Speech.
For too long many internet business companies have been profiting and earning large amounts of money aiding and abetting hate speech. Now it looks like the goose that lays the golden eggs is having it up for dinner. In Britain those that pay to advertise...