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Post by steelmonkey on Oct 24, 2012 19:59:03 GMT
20p and there you are ?
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Post by nonrabbit on Feb 28, 2013 14:05:59 GMT
Come with me to the winged Islei45.images obliterated by tinypic/250qc5g.jpg[/IMG] Taken by Commander Hadfield (who's floating about in space on a space station)
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tullist
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Post by tullist on Feb 28, 2013 14:15:47 GMT
Nice! The Misty Isle! Eilean a' Cheo! Who else but PATTI!!!!!!
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Post by steelmonkey on Feb 28, 2013 16:42:56 GMT
That Winged isle image is beautiful...no picture but I'm living dotcom circa 2013 i guess....in a relationship with a young woman for whom texts are oxygen...."I'll be yours, I'll be yours sent successful' ?
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Post by nonrabbit on Jun 29, 2013 14:23:32 GMT
KELPIE
Work starts on the Kelpie structures in Falkirk www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-23110842Video showing how they will look The Kelpies, two 300 tonne, 30-metre-high stainless steel-plated horse sculptures based at The Helix in Scotland. Standing as guardians of the new sea access and canal link to the Forth & Clyde, these monuments to Scottish Industry from renowned sculptor Andy Scott reflect the proud equine and industrial heritage of Central Scotland, and issue a declaration of intent for the future of the Falkirk area. In your young prime, to this place of mine In the still loch far below.....
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Post by nonrabbit on Oct 2, 2013 18:09:07 GMT
The archipelago of St Kilda, the remotest part of the British Isles, lies 41 miles (66 kilometres) west of Benbecula in Scotland's Outer Hebrides. It's famous for it's bird-life and the sad story of it's inhabitants having to leave because they could not sustain their way of life - leaving homes,the island and the history behind. "There's a house on the hillside, where the drifting sands are born... Lay down and let the slow tide wash me...."and now one of the very few children who bundled into the boats that brought them to the mainland... "..as the ship moves sadly from the pier..." to start a new life, to see strange things like a car and a tree!! has died age 83. Norman Gillies - a child of St Kilda with an amazing story. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-24359366He says it wasn't all doom and gloom as it gave great opportunities for the young. "A new dawn glimmers. Time for a change of horses. It's time to chart new courses and head for safer houses..."
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Post by bunkerfan on Oct 2, 2013 18:47:30 GMT
No doubt a beautiful place to live in the summer months but I reckon the winters were a bit on the cool side. They might have stayed if they'd built a pub and called The Tullhead.
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Post by nonrabbit on Oct 3, 2013 7:33:12 GMT
No doubt a beautiful place to live in the summer months but I reckon the winters were a bit on the cool side. They might have stayed if they'd built a pub and called The Tullhead. - Och nae problem - it's Scotland after all "... the St Kildans evidently liked poetry, music and dancing; they had a piper who could imitate the piping of the gawlin*. Like other Hebrideans,they much enjoyed alcoholic drinks....when they could make or get hold of them.." his.library.nenu.edu.cn/upload/soft/haoli/115/487.pdfHowever the internet speed must have been hellish. * local bird
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Post by nonrabbit on Jun 5, 2014 11:00:01 GMT
'Last night sipped the sunset....''This is a view looking over Loch Fada with the silhouette of the Old Man Of Storr in the background. This is at sunset on the Isle Of Skye.' Lawrence Cornell www.facebook.com/LawrenceCornellPhotography
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Post by nonrabbit on Nov 15, 2014 11:27:07 GMT
The romantic in me reckons that the "gypsy forest dweller" in SFTW must have lived in a gypsy caravan (maybe Ian thought it too cheesy to portray?) i62.images obliterated by tinypic/2lw7zoz.jpg[/IMG] A lovely video of life on the road in a gypsy caravan.
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Post by steelmonkey on Nov 15, 2014 16:46:04 GMT
' But even the gypsy life style was too much chains for her'....Richard Thompson, Beeswing
Tired but happy......nothing like a surprise trip to Velvet Green to cheer up an old guy. 'Nuff said...probably already more than enough.....that's Living the Song !!!!
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Post by nonrabbit on Feb 20, 2016 12:19:11 GMT
A Change Of Horses. Continuing on this romantic notion - a bit of history on the theme. i67.images obliterated by tinypic/2z89efn.jpg[/IMG] " Originating in England, familiar images of the stagecoach are that of a Royal Mail coach passing through a turnpike gate, a Dickensian passenger coach covered in snow pulling up at a coaching inn, and a highwayman demanding a coach to "stand and deliver"..." The stagecoach travelled at an average speed of about five miles per hour, with the total daily mileage covered being around 60 or 70 miles. The term "stage" originally referred to the distance between stations on a route, the coach traveling the entire route in "stages," but through metonymy it came to apply to the coach. A fresh set of horses would be staged at the next station, so the coach could continue after a quick stop to rehitch the new horse team. Under this staging system, the resting, watering and feeding of the spent horses would not delay the coach. You sometimes forget just how old some of these pubs and Inns are and the enormous history that the walls enclose. This pub in London called The White Horse was on the principal route from London to Brighton and dates back to the 15th century! www.whitehorsesteyning.co.uk/page_2988581.htmlHere's a great picture of it in more recent times - 1960's i63.images obliterated by tinypic/2z7ey4l.jpg[/IMG] That's me on the barstool wearing one of Martin Barre's cast off jackets (I wont say in public how I came to have it) and Graham and Bernie discussing manly things in the 'Men's Corner' John is just out the picture - on stage setting up his drum kit.
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Post by nonrabbit on Feb 21, 2016 13:30:45 GMT
After These Wars - quite a bit actually
"..I see a screen, grey cathode tube in walnut cabinet, pride of place in holy family living room."Some little diva(?) in the centre, celebrating her 10th birthday pictured in the family living room (one of only two rooms) Birthday cake sitting atop the grey cathode tube encased in a walnut cabinet.
i65.images obliterated by tinypic/35hr3np.jpg[/IMG] There's also a budgie in the corner called Joey (what else) and his(secret)language would probably have been " Let me out of this @@**$$ cage"
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Post by bunkerfan on Feb 21, 2016 18:54:32 GMT
After These Wars - quite a bit actually
"..I see a screen, grey cathode tube in walnut cabinet, pride of place in holy family living room."Some little diva(?) in the centre, celebrating her 10th birthday pictured in the family living room (one of only two rooms) Birthday cake sitting atop the grey cathode tube encased in a walnut cabinet.
There's also a budgie in the corner called Joey (what else) and his(secret)language would probably have been " Let me out of this @@**$$ cage" A wonderful photograph that shows how much fun there was back then. BTW I had a budgie in the 70's that I called Jethro. I'll try and find a photo sometime.
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Post by bunkerfan on Feb 29, 2016 9:34:52 GMT
I was out walking on a lovely sunny day yesterday and nearly tripped over these. You're never too far from Tull. Root to Branches.
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Post by JTull 007 on Feb 29, 2016 12:19:55 GMT
I was out walking on a lovely sunny day yesterday and nearly tripped over these. You're never too far from Tull. Root to Branches. Every time I go camping or hiking I feel the same. I can hear the sound of 'TULL' in nature...
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Post by jackinthegreen on Feb 29, 2016 21:39:20 GMT
After These Wars - quite a bit actually
"..I see a screen, grey cathode tube in walnut cabinet, pride of place in holy family living room."Some little diva(?) in the centre, celebrating her 10th birthday pictured in the family living room (one of only two rooms) Birthday cake sitting atop the grey cathode tube encased in a walnut cabinet.
There's also a budgie in the corner called Joey (what else) and his(secret)language would probably have been " Let me out of this @@**$$ cage" A wonderful photograph that shows how much fun there was back then. BTW I had a budgie in the 70's that I called Jethro. I'll try and find a photo sometime. Fantastic picture that... ....is that you with the watch and lovely smile...... Photographs were so precious then not like now with digital cameras, you take millions of pics and never look at them.....
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Post by nonrabbit on Mar 1, 2016 9:10:13 GMT
Fantastic picture that... ....is that you with the watch and lovely smile...... Photographs were so precious then not like now with digital cameras, you take millions of pics and never look at them..... Yes that is I. Smiling, age 10, in a room and kitchen in Glasgow with the watch that my granny had saved for ten years to buy. We were so poor we had to choose between feeding the budgie or nibble on the cuttlefish ourselves of an evening Great point about photographs taken then and now !!
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Post by nonrabbit on Mar 1, 2016 9:11:48 GMT
I was out walking on a lovely sunny day yesterday and nearly tripped over these. You're never too far from Tull. Root to Branches. Brilliant
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Post by nonrabbit on Jun 15, 2016 23:49:29 GMT
BROADFORD BIZARRE ( sorry) "A man who was known as the Leopard Man of Skye because of his full-body leopard-spot tattoos has died in a nursing home in Inverness." i65.images obliterated by tinypic/29cl08j.jpg[/IMG] "His self-made shelter, on a stretch of shoreline near Kyleakin in the south-east of the island, had no electricity or furniture. Mr Leppard would canoe three miles (4.8km) for his weekly shopping." "Mr Leppard, whose real surname was Woodbridge, moved into a one-bedroom house in Broadford eight years ago" www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-36537234
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Post by nonrabbit on Dec 20, 2016 21:16:09 GMT
Through long December nights we talk in "woods" of (rain) or snow
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Post by nonrabbit on May 13, 2017 10:34:02 GMT
Blue reflections mute and dim i65.images obliterated by tinypic/5wmgq0.jpg[/IMG] Michael Collins, the astronaut who took this photo, is the only human, alive or dead that isn't in the frame of this picture - 1969
"Collins took this picture of the Lunar Module, containing Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong with Earth in the background, during the Apollo 11 mission. This makes him the only person ever to have lived who was not inside the frame of the photo. Matter cannot be created or destroyed. That means that every human that lived up to the point of this photo being taken still exists, at least in some form, and every human that has been born since then was also is in this photo, at least in some form. So even if you were born after this picture was taken, the materials you’re made from are still on the frame of this picture."
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Post by steelmonkey on May 13, 2017 16:26:07 GMT
Wow. Cue lyrics to Apogee as well.
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Post by nonrabbit on Nov 29, 2018 0:22:43 GMT
" Muscled, black with steel green eye Swishing through the rye grass With thoughts of mouse and apple pie Tail balancing at half-mast" Sadly, the Scottish mountain cat might not be 'swishing through the ...grass' for much longer.
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