Title: Re: [scots-l] For bigheidit Toffs only:
on 10/1/2001 11:41 pm, stan reeves at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
NOW
66 landowners own one quarter of Scotlands 19 million acres
120 own one third
343 own one half
1252 own two thirds
40% can trace their family land holding beyond the sixteenth
David Kilpatrick wrote:
A few years ago an elderly bloke came in wanting some DTP work. He was
motorcycle nut - serious vintage stuff - and well liked by our local bikers,
whom he allowed to fill up his country property with all sorts of 'work in
progress'. I ended up doing a load of scans,
David said:
As it may be. Does not seem to have done Scotland any harm, does it?
You wouldn't think that if you were on the wrong side of an argument over a
bit of land. I know 2 people who went through hell to buy derelict buildings
that were part of large estates- one was because of the
Orain Ghaidhlig wrote:
Well, you're managing to offend most of the people some of the time, so in
my book you're doing something right...
Ha..ha..ha... Thanks..
Did you say there could be only 7 active connections to Radio Toby? No
wonder I haven't been able to connect! (gripe,
Greetings from Celtic Events Entertainment, Denver,
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Stan related:
stuff about sleeping with pigs...
This wasn't so unusual in the Olden Days. It's recorded as happening in
Leith as a form of heating. A pig is a good choice- rabbits and even sheep
are a bit small, but a coo would be too big to get up the stairs.
The temptation would be to go
Is anyone on the list familiar with a fiddle ornament called a "birlin'
"?
I read a short synopsis of how it's done in the book "Caledonian
Companion" by Alasdair Hardie but it was only a short explanation. It's
used in the tune "James Hardie" by J. Scott Skinner. To me, it always
seems to be
I asked this question on the list some time ago and had quiet a bit of
help but I never was able to find where I might find a copy of the print
"The Strathspey King". ( J. Scott Skinner ).
As far as I found out, prints were'nt available but since then, I've seen
the print on the cover of several
