"...In our sail from Loch Tarbert to Rowdil, on June 1st, we saw several pairs of the bean goose, and procured specimens of the turnstone in full summer plumage, but I do not think they had begun to lay, for they were in flocks of four and five; and near Rowdil, the southern extremity of Harris, we were gratified by finding an eyrie of the peregrine falcon, containing four young birds. The old ones were too cautious..."

https://direcleit.blogspot.com/2011/02/some-account-of-people-of-st-kilda-and.html

#hebrides #uist #westernisles #stkilda

southerly gale…

uist

slips

between

compressed sky

and arguments of sea

https://berneraybardachd.wordpress.com/2014/10/02/southerly-gale-2/

#gale #storm #uist #hebrides #poem #poetry #westernisles

125 years ago in Stornoway:

"1898 sees Alexander at 24 New Street, Stornoway and the Crest is laid-up from 1st January until the 13th March. On the 14th she leaves for Larne... This time the crew of four includes Able-Seaman John MacPherson and the Boy Donald Macleod, for whom this is his maiden voyage."

http://direcleit.blogspot.com/2010/02/crest-official-number-44427-47-net.html

#hebrides #lewis #stornoway #coastaltrading #marine #archive #socialhistory #genealogy #sailing #ketch

"As we draw close to the 100th anniversary of the start in 1923 of the mass emigrations of the 1920s, evoked in particular by the names 'Metagama' and 'Marloch', we can clearly their impact on the population of Harris."

http://direcleit.blogspot.com/2022/09/civil-parish-of-harris-population-1801.html

#harris #hebrides #emigration #metagama #marloch #1923 #diaspora #westernisles #socialhistory #genealogy

hogmanay…

thin skin between

this year and the next

lies in frozen swirling pleats

upon the surface of the loch

until first-footing’s cheerful thaw

https://berneraybardachd.wordpress.com/2014/12/27/hogmanay/

#poem #poetry #hogmanay #newyear #uist #hebrides #scotland

hogmanay…

thin skin between this year and next

lies in frozen swirling pleats

upon the surface of the loch

until first-footing’s cheerful thaw

https://berneraybardachd.wordpress.com/2014/12/27/hogmanay/

#poem #poetry #uist #hebrides #scotland #newyear

Two homeless people were found frozen to death after the winter freeze we had here in Arkansas. This is one of the wealthiest countries the world has ever seen. You will never convince me that universal health care, college education, safe housing, monetary reparations for descendants of enslaved Africans, and a living wage no matter what job you hold is not possible. Yet the U.S. Congress just passed a $858 BILLION budget for military spending. https://inthesetimes.com/article/military-budget-hike-for-2023-is-3-200-times-the-nlrb-increase

British Newspaper Archive passes 62 million pages https://scottishgenes.blogspot.com/2022/12/british-newspaper-archive-passes-62.html #genealogy #FamilyHistory #Geneadons #Scotland #Ireland

Christmas Day…

santa’s path lit by

an excitement

of children

https://berneraybardachd.wordpress.com/2015/12/25/christmas-day/

#poem #poetry #christmas #uist #hebrides

Christmas Eve…

song thrush

carols her way

along the hedgerow

https://berneraybardachd.wordpress.com/2015/12/24/christmas-eve/

#poem #poetry# christmas #christmaseve #hebrides #uist

yule…

clouds hold tight

midwinter light

as solstice

squalls

pass

by

https://berneraybardachd.wordpress.com/2015/12/21/yule/

#poetry #poem #yule #solstice #uist #harris #hebrides #westernisles #outerhebrides

"Lord Deenie and Sir Hugh were each slumbered in their favourite place of repose, sleeping-off a somewhat overloaded lunch as the low filtered light of midwinter struggled through the mist in a weak attempt at penetrating the glazing and slinking past those spaces reserved solely for shadows..."

https://berneraybardachd.wordpress.com/2021/12/21/solstice/

#prose #harris #solstice #hebrides #outerhebrides #westernisles #cats

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AC Propulsion's tZero at the EV World Expo in Santa Monica, April 1999. We drove there in a General Motors EV1 (superb car) we'd rented from Budget Car Rental at LAX airport. The tZero was inspiration for the first Tesla Roadster. This was long before Elon Musk (who knows absolutely fuck all about EVs) ever got involved with Tesla.

RT @BladeoftheS@twitter.com

Jacob Rees-Mogg has avoided more than £100,000,000 in tax by using Tax Havens.

The EU would have blocked this.

It’s really that simple.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/BladeoftheS/status/1603677916554039297

One point that no one seems to have raised about @elonjet

The location of all aircraft & yachts is public info.

Elon’s jet is “tracked” because he insists on flying a $70m private Gulfstream. If he flew a charter jet (or god forbid commercial) this would be impossible.

He’s demanding both absolute privacy & luxury.

"Mainstream economists have been selling the same ‘privatise-liberalise-deregulate’ snake oil for almost 50 years — to no avail. Seeing policy as a purely technical/apolitical endeavour, these charlatans have ravaged vulnerable communities the globe over."

https://tribune.com.pk/story/2390496/whither-the-public-intellectual?s=09

#Economics #Liberalism #Academia #Pakistan #GlobalSouth

124 years ago today - please note my gt, gt grandfather's 'Nationality' :)

Date: 15.12.98
Place: Horseshoe Sound Kerrera, By Oban
Name: Malcolm Kerr,
Sex: Male
Age: 75
Crew or Passenger: Crew
Rank: Bosun
Nationality: Tarbert, Harris
Last Place of Abode: Bayhead Street, Stornoway
Cause of Death: Heart-disease
Port at which Reported: Stornoway

http://direcleit.blogspot.com/2010/03/crest-final-voyages-1898.html

#harris #hebrides #outerhebrides #westernisles #genealogy #socialhistory #sailing #scotland #kerrera #oban #stornoway #lewis

first frost…

sea slows
to molten glass

https://berneraybardachd.wordpress.com/2015/12/13/first-frost/

#poem #poetry #hebrides #sea #uist #harris #westernisles #outerhebrides #frost