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not ending sentences with a preposition
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A 1930s negatives envelope. The text reads "don't store away those prints of which you are so proud". The "arm" on letter R is broken in a way that looks like an apostrophe. Quite odd.
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frontispiece of a book. In black and red lettering it reads: Kalendars of Scottish Saints with personal notices of those of Alba, Laudonia and Strathclyde. An attempt to fix the districts of their several missions and the churches where they were chiefly had in remembrance.
December 29th is the feast day of minor Scottish saint, Onan, who, despite his name, isn't the patron saint of anything in particular...
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The short answer is that it was made in Scotland and came via Hong Kong! I'll definitely need to flesh this one out!
an excellent question!
presumably it formed part of a larger supply shipment from Oz or other Commonwealth country? Will have a dig.
🗓️ 28th December is the anniversary of the Tay Bridge Disaster, a tragedy which overshadows another on the same day 27 years later. In 1906 a wintry tragedy at Elliot Junction caused 22 deaths and 24 injuries when safety and control broke down in a blizzard 🚂🚃
threadinburgh.scot/2022/12/28/t...
a uniformed man chalks mission details on a blackboard. Number 30 (the Squadron number) is painted at the top of the board.
Today is the 75th anniversary of "OPERATION HAGGIS"
On 28th December 1950, the RAAF flew 585km from Iwakuni, Japan to Suwon-si, South Korea with 180lbs (80kg) of haggis so the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders could have a "proper Hogmanay" in the first year of the Korean War.
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later, wheelbarrow/go-kart racing was explicitly forbidden during Yule as was "lewd fashion" and "bawdrie songs". Elginers knew how to cut loose.
look out for this chap while down there:
oldweirdscotland.com/tyberius-win...
Honestly one of the most enjoyable and readable collection of extracts there is. Elginers got up to some real mischief!
Punishment included headshaving, sitting barelegged outside, whipping, cheek branding, and being chained by the neck to a wall.
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A woodcut of a guiser in a medieval town. A barelegged man wears a hood with donkey ears and plays bagpipes. A lute and harp are on the ground near his feet.
In 1599, Elgin Kirk Session were *very clear* re: Xmas
No snowballs
No carols or other singing
No guising (fancy dress)
No crossdressing
No bagpipes or fiddles
No dancing
No football in the streets
No ropeswings
No groups of women haunting the churchyard
No "umcomelie speeches"
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Be Gay this Christmas
Decide to be Very Gay
Let us be Gay
Christmas advice for ladies courtesy of the Dundee Courier (1930-1934)
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a newspaper article with the headline: Kirsteen talks to northeast women. Time for Santa to make up his mind?
In his first hundred years of business in Scotland, Santa Claus delivered to children on Hogmanay (31st Dec), not Christmas Eve.
By the 1960s, he had fully synchronised his visits and Scotland ran on the same timetable as the US and England.
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AUTHOR'S NOTE THIS account of the history of Tullis Russell & Co. Ltd., rritten for the Firm's one hundred and fiftieth anniversary, may properly open with a story of the late Sir David Russell. Being much interested in historical origins and development, he collected together the relevant documents and books for 2 study of the Firm's history. Fe sorted them into twO piles, in one. what was of value, in the other, what was to be thrown away. He sent for a boy from the Mill to take the one to his house and the other to be pulped. By mis- chance the wrong pile was pulped. So the narrat & R Lh
While organising the company archives of his papermaking business, Tullis-Russell, Sir David Russell accidentally had all the important historical documents pulped... and turned into new paper.
Victorian Christmas card that reads "A happy Christmas - A hearty welcome". Someone is being picked up by a fierce polar bear in a Arctic scene.
YULESHARD
n. a person woefully unprepared for Christmas
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Just seen the Paisley xenomorph popping up for Hallowe'en, so here's a reminder that it is not the only nightmare fodder on that building.
Here are the two parts of Kenn's article for the Nunatsiaq News:
nunatsiaq.com/stories/arti...
nunatsiaq.com/stories/arti...
I'm so happy that the story has now been told by a Greenland historian. I have a lot to fix in my own piece.
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Urio Etwango, an Inuit man stands on the deck of a boat holding a rifle. He is dressed in a hooded coat made of sealskin. He has a moustache. The ship's wheel, a pulley, rope and other nautical accoutrement are visible.
#OTD 139 years ago:
Dundonians lined the banks of the Tay to watch young Inuit man, Urio Etwango, demonstrate hunting techniques from his kayak (wooden crates serving as seals).
Usually, I'd share my article on him, but this week Greenland historian, Kenn Harper, has more properly told the story:
A yellowed plate from a Victorian era zoology book. A crude drawing of a tiger.
#OTD 218 years ago:
A Glenmoriston woman awoke to find a young Bengal tiger in her house. It leapt 16ft across the room at her before being chased outside. It had escaped from a menagerie at Brahan Castle, some 40 miles away.
It was reported "to have done considerable mischief"
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a black and white photo of two children wearing sheepskins over their faces and bodies, heavy boots, and holding shepherds' crooks.
a black and white photo of two children wearing loose heavy clothes and masks made from sheepskin.
Whither Halloween?
Nobody takes the time to carve lanterns out of neeps nowadays, and nobody takes the time to scrape out a sheepskin and skull for their costume. Sigh.
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South Uist guisers, 1932
(📷Margaret Fay Shaw)
place (and the parish that's a 3 is the water I was thinking about, I say... *hesitatingly*)
I can think of a 2 :)
might there be a parish named for a water/river? My guess without cheating. No idea about highest score.
I say this every year, but Halloween costumes were scarier in the #OldWeirdScotland, but here's some genuinely terrifying shit from Drumlithie Draughts Club kids...
Mearns Leader and Kincardineshire Mail, 1936
Half a house missing, you say?
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1981 Print advert for SovScot Tours Limited. Stylised Kremlin spires sit atop a saltire next to the words "Soviet Union, 15 day sun and interest tours direct from Glasgow". The three main tour options are named "Russian Riviera" , "Crimean Riviera", and "USSR three cities tour".
Geordi La Forge version of Drake meme. Upper panel "doon the watter". Lower panel "taps aff in Crimea"
"Ay, this year we're takin the weans ower the Iron Curtain for the Fair"
Print Ad, Scots Magazine, July 1981
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It's "help an undergraduate research project time"!
Siân is researching how well Scottish people and Scots speakers are understood. Listen to some audio clips and see how well you fare. Took me less than 10mins and it was very fun!
forms.gle/wUJBQquieSt2...
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It's "help an undergraduate research project time"!
Siân is researching how well Scottish people and Scots speakers are understood. Listen to some audio clips and see how well you fare. Took me less than 10mins and it was very fun!
forms.gle/wUJBQquieSt2...
#OldWeirdScotland
