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scotianostra · 1 year

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On December 8th 1980, John Lennon was gunned down and killed in New York.

Over the years it is Paul McCartney who is the Beatle most connected with Scotland, but John Lennon has links with our country going back to his childhood.

The ex-Beatle was a regular visitor to Durness in Sutherland during his younger years after his dear Aunt Mater remarried a dentist called Bert who owned a home that overlooked Sango Bay. John, who travelled north with his cousin Stanley Parks, who lived in Edinburgh and later in Largs, would head to the coast for weeks on end, often being dragged into helping his uncle fix up the house.

“The family party roughed it in a primitive farmhouse lit by oil lamp and candles and noisy with the screeches of Mater’s pet parrot,” wrote Philip Norman in his biography John Lennon: The Life.

The house where Lennon holidayed at Sangomore, a settlement at Durness, was demolished just a few years ago with a new property built by the owners.

Parkes also recalled:

John never forgot those times at Durness. They were among his happiest memories. He loved the wilderness. John was nine when he started coming up with my family to the croft in Durness. The croft belonged to my stepfather, Robert Sutherland, and John just loved the wildness and the openness of the place. We went fishing and hunting and John loved going up into the hills to draw or write poetry. John really loved hill walking, shooting and fishing. He used to catch salmon. He would have been quite a laird. In the last letter to me before he was killed he quoted a famous Scottish saying that says ‘It’s a braw, bricht moonlicht nicht since I last had a word’.

John later took his to Scotland, but his visit was tainted by an accident he had in his Austin Maxi car.

He, Ono and Kyoko sustained cuts to the face and Ono’s back was injured.They were taken to Golspie’s Lawson Memorial Hospital where Lennon was given facial stitches, Ono 14 in her forehead, and Kyoko four. Julian Lennon was treated for shock but was otherwise unhurt. He was taken to stay with Lennon’s Aunt Mater in Durness, around 50 miles away, before his mother Cynthia took him back to London the following day.When she arrived at the hospital to demand an explanation from Lennon he refused to see her.Lennon remained in hospital for five days and famously told reporters:

“If you’re going to have a car crash, try to arrange for it to happen in the Highlands.“The hospital there was just great.”

Lennon was never a confident driver and gave up driving after the accident, hiring a chauffeur to take him wherever he needed to go and reportedly having the old car’s carcass mounted on a pillar at his English estate.

This 1969 crash wasn’t John’s first brush with danger on Scottish roads; Ken McNab, author of The Beatles in Scotland, revealed that the Beatles had an accident during their first tour in 1960, when they were backing up singer Johnny Gentle as the Silver Beetles.

As McNab put it, “John Lennon began the ’60s with a car crash in Scotland and managed to end the decade with another car crash in Scotland.”

There is a wee memorial garden to Lennon’s memory in Durness, other memorials in the country include a bench in Edinburgh’s Princes Street Gardens and a plaque in Durness.

#Scotland #scottish #Durness #english #John Lennon #the beatles #history #RIP

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alexisgeorge · 1 year

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24 avril:

Highlands J1

#Durness #Lairg to Durness

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lippenimnebel · 9 months

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#2023 #scotland #durness #coast #atlantic ocean #sea #sheep #twilight

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clancarruthers · 1 year

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starscollide0 · 14 days

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Bad is talking about DSMP eggpire lore and the original DSMP ending and OH MY GOD

Basically to sum it up, the characters within the DSMP were pulled in from different places to be DreamXD's "play things"

The DSMP universe was supposed to be in control of DreamXD. Everytime some big catastrophic event would happen, he would reset the cycle.

The original ending would've had everyone go to the end and try to kill DreamXD but before they could, he would've reset the cycle.

The egg was a product of that never ending cycle, trapped inside of it getting re-buried and having to get rediscovered every time.

This is not helping the dsmp relapse...

#badboyhalo #dsmp #dsmp lore #dreamxd #honestly i had so much fun durring my dsmp phase #eggpire #cbbh

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paolobrand · 2 years

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Durness. Remote as it gets. Home to the best golf course you’ve never heard of! There’s so much fun to be had in this glorious part of the world ♥️ Windswept wonders are to be found in abundance in Britain’s far north 🤩 #durness #balnakeilbay #beach #bay #farnorth #britain #durnessgolfclub #durnessbeach #highlands #scotland #hame #staycation #scotland2022 #nofilter (at Balnakeil Beach) https://www.instagram.com/p/ChAHFVnjNrQ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#durness #balnakeilbay #beach #bay #farnorth #britain #durnessgolfclub #durnessbeach #highlands #scotland #hame #staycation #scotland2022 #nofilter

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buckybisonstravels · 2 years

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Oh Scotland, such a beautiful place, take me back.

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hnnny · 3 months

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I would have killed the galaxy to preserve you. I would have let the galaxy die. You are more rare than you know, and what you have taught yourself must not be allowed to die.

And it is for that that I love you.

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#art #kotor #kotor 2 #my art #exile #atton #zena paloh #kreia #nihilus #sion #atris #lonna vash #kavar #vrook lamar #zez kai ell #visas #handmaiden/brianna #disciple/mical #bao dur #mira

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monikamarkovova · 8 months

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little thing probably never to be finished.. and dad

#my art #limited life #bdoubleo100 #bdubs #zombiecleo #zombie cleo #goodtimeswithscar #gtws #etho #ethoslab #you can see i gave up durring wonrking on the dinner #and went to do somethign else #im so sorry #but i still want to post this idk

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kirnet · 1 month

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future padawans :'D

#i have sooooo many padawan thoughts and headcanons when the jedi are rebuilding without rev and the exileeee #and i have many many emotions about juhani taking on a cathar padawan and healing a lot of generational traumas #bao-dur takes on a padawan from telos :)#minadraws #kotor #juhani #bao-dur #ruthuhy #mokanid oseth #<- the padawans

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f-e-r-a-y-e · 5 months

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Tıp ne kadar ilerlerse ilerlesin;

Ar damarındaki çatlağa tedavi bulamaz..!

#onun tek çaresi Allah korkusu dur #Edep #hayâ

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ccircusclwn · 2 months

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intertwined chapt 3 is out!!!! noah is so distressed in the drawings im so sorry lmao

also a lot of POVs this time around!!!! yippee!!!

Due to their internship status, the intern-teens were tasked with decorating the entire challenge venue for the London Challenge. Some worked great with others, forming a amicable bond, while others had to ensure their teammate didn't get their head crushed.

Since she's scary and wanted to be something that resembled her boyfriend in any way, Axel was tasked to become Jack the Ripper and terrorise the World Tour contestants with her sharp hunting skills.

But... what will happen if her sharp hunting eye doesn't shut off, and tries to eliminate a curious soul in the very same place she was not supposed to be catching a certain someone?