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wild-e-eep · 8 months
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A misty morning in Millhouse.
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nickantonyhalstead · 2 years
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Loch Eck, Cowal
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Nearl, Marcin, V and Cowal:[in the hallway approaching the office]
Blemishine: [rushes out the door and closes it quickly]
Blemishine: Guys! Zofia is making us clean the office and she has jobs for everyone! Now it's too late for me, but go! Save yourselves!
Nearl, Marcin, V and Cowal:[run away]
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scotianostra · 1 year
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Tighnabruach by Neil King Via Flickr: At the pier is MacBrayne's paddle steamer Columba which ran the Ardrishaig Mail run from Glasgow to Ardrishaig calling at Gourock, Dunoon, Rothesay, Colintraive, Tighnabruach and Tarbert every summer from 1879 to 1935. The service ran six days a week and a smaller ship operated it in winter.
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comiiical · 11 months
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Cowal O’Hara
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Telekinesis (vibration manipulation, energy projection, cold manipulation, ice manipulation), teleportation (gravity manipulation), telepathy.(pain inducement, memory manipulation)
Song writer. Lives in the coast. House paid with a rather successful even if short, song writing career under a seudonym. Descends from a powerful line of witches but he is the only witch in his family, neither his siblings nor his parents have manifeted powers, and the last person with magic in his bloodline was his grand father.
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fotoflingscotland · 2 years
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Icelandic Wrestler by FotoFling Scotland Via Flickr: Cowal Gathering 2017
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If you see an Ewok with an X-Wing, your first thought is "someone gave that Ewok an X-Wing!"
“Baron Soontir Fel”, Iron Fist
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mywifeleftme · 8 months
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101: Parts Found in Sea // Seat of the Writing Man
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Seat of the Writing Man Parts Found in Sea 1984, Between
Named for a headline describing an airplane that crashed into the ocean, Parts Found in Sea were a mellow post-punk/college rock band that worked the Toronto club circuit hard throughout the 1980s before fading into obscurity. Their small catalogue (two EPs, an LP, and a live album) turns up around used shops in the GTA with fair frequency, and there are a few fond remembrances online from author/activist Cory Doctorow and the wonderful ‘80s indie blog Wilfully Obscure (which I was delighted to learn is still in business).
Parts are a very vibey band—meandering tempos, no hooks to speak of, plenty of glutenous bass to sway dreamily to. They’re not quite goth though—vocalist Steve Cowal is both melancholy and a poet, but seems like he would just look confused if you told him most people start bands to get laid. As Doctorow notes, most of Parts’ songs feel less like verse/chorus/verse/chorus affairs and more like a series of movements. It’s most notable on side-closers “Satellite” and “Body Sends Us,” which have jammy structures that give modest guitarist David Currie (not the former Ottawa Symphony Orchestra conductor, which, I know, you were thinking) a chance to scratch away at his instrument in the spotlight.
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In retrospect, Parts Found in Sea sound like one of those transitional bands between European post-punk and the forthcoming wave of predominantly North American post-rock bands. If they’d come along a little later, they might’ve alighted on some ideas that could’ve expanded and abstracted their sound in interesting ways—but as it is, they left behind a catalogue full of pleasant surprises for aficionados of gloomy, thoughtful ‘80s alternative.
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sztupy · 7 months
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Felfújható dartstábla
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howshegoing · 10 months
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wild-e-eep · 2 years
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One of the many local raised beaches - sea cliffs cut by the waves, then raised up to become a playground for moss and oaks.
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nickantonyhalstead · 2 years
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Cowal, Scotland
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anarchotolkienist · 7 months
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do you think extinct gaelic dialects could possibly be revived (saying nothing of the likelihood of that happening) if enough people were to make an effort in learning/speaking them? sometimes i look at old dialects as a learner and wish somehow they could be brought back
Depends on the dialect and how extinct they are. First of all, people like to speak of some dialects as extinct when they're not yet, they're just very threatened. For example, there is a still a native speaker of Perthshire Gaelic alive - she's 104 but she's still kicking. The same for Easter Ross Gaelic - still has one old woman who's a native speaker, a fisherwife in the village of Brora. Her sister passed away last year, making her the last native speaker, but she's still around. One family has kept up Tayside Gaelic for two generations now, and other speakers could learn to speak the local language from them. Other dialects have semi-speakers, aspects of which could still be picked up though it would not be the complete dialect as gained from a fluent speaker - for example, the son of the last native speaker of Aberdeenshire Gaelic is still alive, and he, while not fluent, is competent in the languge and can recite some poems and rhymes from memory that his mother taught him which will be enough to save some vocabulary and phrases, should someone decide to pick it up.
Then there are dialects who's last native speakers have passed away, but where fluent learners actually did what we're discussing here, and learned the dialect to fluency at those last speakers knees - examples just based on people I know at least somewhat personally would include north Argyle, Dùthaich MhicAoidh, Wester Ross, Glens of Loch Aber and Glen Coe. These dialects, then, also have a lease of life, and could be learned and spoken with now living speakers.
A third category would be dialects which, while extinct, were extensively recorded before their death and which could be picked up with a degree of continuity from those recordings. Isle of Arran, for example (which I know at least Alasdair Paul is doing for his historical novels, who's characters speak with a clear Arrannach flavour), or Badenoch, or Lorne (the last native speaker, Iain MacPhàidein nach maireann, passed away not five months ago), among others. All of these I would say could all be revived and be said to be genuinely the same dialect, even though it will of course change and loose some of it's flavour, and certain sayings or words that just simply were never recorded.
However, there is a last category of dialects that are irreparibly lost, that simply were not recorded in time. Loch Lomondside Gaelic, for example, died out in the early 20th century, and the only extensive collection that happened locally, by Dòmhnall Dewar, was not a linguistic but a folkloric study. The same goes for most of the borderlands and the Southern Highlands, (Cowall, Kintyre, Black Isle, South Argyle, Braemor, and Bredalbane, etc) and generally most districts outwith the crofting region, where the languge (as well as more or less the entirety of the people) disappeared with the clearances, without the lease of life granted by crofting and the crofting act. This goes doubly so for the only dialect of Lowland Gaelic that survived into modern day, in the form of that Gaelic which was spoken in the Glens of Galloway into the 17th century. These dialects are all lost completely. But, as you understand from the earlier list, a surprising number of dialects are still alive and to some extent kicking, and could have a fighting chance if things were to turn out differently. I can give you some tips or contacts if the dialect you yourself is interested in is salvageable, just DM me or send another ask if whatever.
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scotianostra · 1 year
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Stage Coach beside Moses' Well 
I’ve not posted any vintage pics for a wee while...........
Moses Well was built by Hugh Cameron  (Hughie the Coach) who ran the coach service between Lochgoilhead and St Catherines in order that he could water his horses after a very steep climb without taking them off the road . It was built about 1885 at his own expense by 2 workmen from Inveraray ( cost £5.00).It gets its name Moses Well from the bible 'He opened the rock and the waters gushed out;they ran in the dry places like a river'.Psalm CV verse 41.
One story  goes that a group of gypsies bathed a very sick local lad in the water here, and he was cured. The locals accused the gypsies of practicing witchcraft, I can’t find any more info on that though, so might just be made up to make it more interesting?! 
There’s a colourised version of the old pic on Edinphoto  HERE but I prefer the black & white one.
It looks great wee place for a stop and a photo opportunity, the place has recently had a sprucer up, check out the video below
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sjM6sJWhIU
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comiiical · 11 months
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He is very athletic and capable. Practices parkour, climbing, and running
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fotoflingscotland · 2 years
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Clanadonia by FotoFling Scotland Via Flickr: Drums and Bagpipes at Cowal Gathering 2014
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