tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post1081172545627548156..comments2024-03-28T10:14:23.792+00:00Comments on call me ishmael: NOTHING TO GROUSE ABOUTcall me ishmaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-46812249349271254962013-12-17T14:10:00.163+00:002013-12-17T14:10:00.163+00:00Times are tough but Santa will do his best, mrs wo...Times are tough but Santa will do his best, mrs woar.call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-90456208023285892712013-12-15T20:32:49.091+00:002013-12-15T20:32:49.091+00:00Dear Santa
Please teach Mr Ishmael how to use a v...Dear Santa<br /><br />Please teach Mr Ishmael how to use a video camera and upload clips so that we can see Mr Harris springing about in the snow, kicking up diamonds to show us that no matter how small you are, deep inside there is still a wolf memory. <br /><br />Thank you.Woman on a Rafthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08897415591130901416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-56017553586899054262013-12-08T10:06:33.149+00:002013-12-08T10:06:33.149+00:00You need to be alert to the Merry Dancers, mr yard...You need to be alert to the Merry Dancers, mr yardarm. I used to get an email from a skywatching university when the lights were due but, you know, tough times and all in it together, I think they went down in the Flood. It is an 11 year cycle and for a lot of our time there has been little activity but when it's good it's good. I must try to see more of the night sky, it is brilliant, here, in the North. More people should visit, more people should relocate. Much of what mr jgm2 says about Fucking Scotland is true, indeed, many Scots say the same things but if you can happen on the right place, none of those things matter, those things are everywhere, but these places, these hills and mountains and skies are only here, in Scotland, the best part of England.call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-57201746074736112982013-12-08T09:56:39.874+00:002013-12-08T09:56:39.874+00:00The other comforting thing, mr tezza, is that it w...The other comforting thing, mr tezza, is that it was built - with those three-foot walls - for an important, incoming minister of the kirk - then the equivalent of the magistrate, with all sorts of powers, temporal and spiritual, to make their lives shit, the lads would have done as good a job as they could, urged on by local pious dignitaries. They were a bad lot, ministers, always in cahoots with the lairds in robbing the peasants and keeping them in line. Public shaming was one of their tricks, they had a Shaming Stool in which they would make backsliders sit whilst having a round of fucks fired into them; it was a punishment used especially on women, to whom Presbyterianism was particular cruel. William Smith, the man for whom this place was built, wore out seeveral wives, fathered many children, who now own much of the parish and lived to be 90.<br /><br />call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-34994269253940245722013-12-08T08:54:25.790+00:002013-12-08T08:54:25.790+00:00I've worked on enough old buildings over the l...I've worked on enough old buildings over the last forty years to know that it isn't always true that "they built 'em right in those days"(we only see the survivors); but safe to say, Mr Ishmael, the lads who built your place obviously knew what they were about and if the place has stood two hundred years in an environment like that it'll last forever with sufficient maintenance.<br /><br />Good, massive stone walls put together with care and lime mortar which allows the stonework to breathe and settle gently cant be beat. It's own weight and mass holding all together as you say. That, and many years of habit.<br /><br />Good to hear the Dogbloke is settling in so well<br /><br />tezza Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-41649158423090465752013-12-08T07:29:23.254+00:002013-12-08T07:29:23.254+00:00You must see the aurora quite often, Mr Ishmael. V...You must see the aurora quite often, Mr Ishmael. Very rarely gets down south; only saw it once, back in `86.yardarmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08700165830593026578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-48771850888788678412013-12-08T00:09:10.461+00:002013-12-08T00:09:10.461+00:00He is a big bastard, wonder how he gets up the tre...He is a big bastard, wonder how he gets up the tree but he's just like the grouse on the whisky bottle. Terriers don't do stealth, just rip-yer-throat-out charging and barking.<br /><br />The chimneys have been there for two centuries and so I shouldn't worry but I do. The mortar is full of sea shells, sand gathered from the shore, I think it's just its own weight, holding the place up.call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-26815478964555691572013-12-07T23:19:23.011+00:002013-12-07T23:19:23.011+00:00Does young Harris do stealth or is it charge like ...Does young Harris do stealth or is it charge like Highlanders with full battle cry? Ha ha - the local animals are probably organising committees of eviction since chav-terrier turned up with proclamation of top-dog status. It must be lovely for the fella too having such a playground investigate. <br /><br /> I walk through our local park every morning and see the same folks being walked by their dogs, ever ready with placcy bags to retrieve their shit and it just seems kinda dull. It's the not being let off the leash thing that seems a bit unfortunate for big dogs - stretchy leads can only do so much. We're only 5 minutes away from nowhere so i'm sure it's just a weekday convenience thing but a walled garden with prizes must cheer the lad up. Sooper dooper. DtPnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-64789355065352913212013-12-07T22:46:35.481+00:002013-12-07T22:46:35.481+00:00Good to see your chimneys still standing.Good to see your chimneys still standing.Mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-36548014644034353292013-12-07T22:37:29.858+00:002013-12-07T22:37:29.858+00:00The grouse in your pictures look to me as though i...The grouse in your pictures look to me as though its parents were pheasants.<br />It may be something to do with the whiskey.Alphonsnoreply@blogger.com