Bits and pieces

This is the place for posts which don’t fit into other categories… unless they were a category all to themselves!

Struggling with Gaelic

I’ve been learning Gaelic for nearly five years now, and I do enjoy it and have made some great friends and we do have fun… but really I’m not getting to grips with it somehow. I confess that I don’t work on it as much as I used to, I used to do half an […]

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Green man 2

I wrote something in April about the Green Man, a figure of mystery and myth, whose origins are varied and very old. I mentioned that he crops up when you least expect him, and as we were driving home from buying paint to redecorate, we were stopped at some traffic lights. I noticed a little […]

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Chimneys

In tehse days of central heating it is difficult to imagine what it would have been like to have had fires burning in every room – if you could afford it! These days people love having an open fire, or a nice wood-burning stove, but imagine if every day you had to clean out the […]

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