For the last several years. a song thrush near us at this time of the year has put down the same riff, a very recognisable, whistle-able tune. I filmed and posted this last year, though I can't find the clip at the mo. This year, a song thrush near us has a completely different tune. But when I took the bird food out this morning, happily I heard that familiar riff coming from the other side of the burn. I don't know if they have the same tunes, or if they learn their songbooks #Birds
People with an interest in the Highlands of Scotland, your attention please. The Highland Council want to slash services to save money, almost all of which will have a disproportionate ill effect on the rural Highlands. They hope to cut the Countryside Ranger service, mobile libraries and public transport provision, among others. If you can, please make your views known, esp. if you live the HC region. Doc here: https://engagehighland.co.uk/29834/widgets/86849/documents/53756 Consulation here: https://engagehighland.co.uk/budget-engagement/surveys/being-more-efficient Please boost.
Morning Walk, and the drama of the morning light already fades to grey, but we could see Cocoa and Milkshake, and yell a greeting. They are Davie the Crofter's calfies, of which he is very proud. They were named by his step-grandchildren, and even he doesn't know which is which, #Assynt
Morning walk, and while the sky was on fire to the south east, to the west, the moon was setting over Meall Dearg, the Red Mound, living up to her name in the morning light. (Quietly pleased with the timing of this pic!) #Assynt #MorningWalk
@walfischbucht@gemlog Ah yes, I was thinking about that but couldn't recall the name. Closer to home, places like Tain, a royal burgh since 1066 (and therefore allowed to trade on its own account) traded extensively into the Baltic. And even as late as the time of the Caledonian Canal, as we recently learnt, a lot of Baltic trade reached, for example, Dublin.
4. Not content with the heraldry alone, there are stylised images representing each trade all around the upper parts of the wall. It's Saturday, so lets' hear it for the maltmen. 5/....
5. But these boards of the High Heid Yins, the Deacon Conveners, caught my eye all day. Some of the boards go back to the 16th century. But what bothers me is the anti-nominative determinism We have a Smith who is a tailor, a Maltman who is a flesher, a Wright who was a cordiner and a Millar who is a maltman. Fortunately in another board. there is a Mason who was mason (and was probably a Mason too) so balance is restored to the universe.
@freedosproject@bytex64 Phew! I'm cracking up slower than previously thought. To check, I hauled out my version from 1987, and here's a screenshot showing "Format WS" It seems to work with the keystrokes I tried.
@freedosproject Ah - must be mis-remembering the key bindings - personal capacitors need replaced after all this time. I do recall the speed of Galaxy and AsEasyAs in comparison with fully commercial frontrunners at the time though.
@freedosproject Yes! I'm pretty sure it could be set up too use Wordstar commands, a challenging learning curve, but it was worth it, as I still use those with the joe editor, and must-install on my linux boxen. Galaxy was incredibly fast too, as I recall.
What was that founding principle of the NHS? "Free at the point of being able to shovel money into the grasping hands of our oligarchic mates?" Headline: "NHS to expand use of private sector to tackle waits" Yet to see a BBC headline that reads "Why has the Tory establishment run down the NHS?" https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-66319064
I've been tempted to mute the word threads for obvious reasons. But maybe now's a good time to remember Chesterton's view, the mastodon in the room, advertising. "It is really not so repulsive to see the poor asking for money as to see the rich asking for more money. And advertisement is the rich asking for more money." Full quote here: https://chesterton.wordpress.com/2016/10/20/advertising/ I wonder what he would have said about personal data extortion ("use this app & we'll take this personal data" is really just extortion.)
@Merovius Had exactly this situation recently. Party A was seriously miffed that I didn't just give him Party B's phone number. That response alone justified my caution.
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