Q/ What's better than someone playing the bagpipes indoors?
A/ Two.
"Summer isn't a time. It's a place as well. Summer is a moving creature and likes to go south for the winter."
~Terry Pratchett, "Feet Of Clay"
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‘The Garb of Old Gaul’: Romanticised Gaelic Highlanders & Intercultural Mobility
4 November, online – free
Prof Silke Stroh discusses the 18th-century song “The Garb of Old Gaul” – an example of the romanticisation of Highland soldiers. She traces the song’s textual history, argues that the English text might be older than is commonly assumed, & sheds new light on the Gaelic translations
Red Squirrels
A couple of action pics from yesterday's session at the woodland hide.
Email me if you are interested in spending a day with me at this magical hide, where there are lots of woodland birds too.
The autumnal colours around Loch Faskally were just spectacular