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From the makers: “Rural Preterit” is an experimental documentary that -through the memories of two people that once lived in a now abandoned village in Galicia- explores the causes and consequences of rural exile. The documentary confronts the simplicity of the rural life and the influence of the technology in our daily routine. In other words, could we really live without...

Jan 28th

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Ross & Sutherland Constabulary Chief Constables...

Just because I like this sort of thing. From the Ross and Sutherland Constabulary Chief Constables Report for 1973. Lewis (but not the rest of the Western Isles) lies within the county of Ross. Miscellaneous Fatal Accidents: Total 15, all male (ages given) Struck by train (79) Fire (32, 2, 69) Alcohol poisoning (32) Fall down stairs (36) Falling beam (37) Hotel fire (20) Drowning (40, 29, 22,...

Jan 18th

Dec 29th

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Dec 12th

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Costa Book Awards 2011

After the Booker longlist, I’m intending to read the Costa shortlists (Novels and First Novels - might or might not get to the other categories, but I’m lacking the commitment for Biography, and the interest for the other two) and probably the NBA fiction shortlist too. I think I’ll not bother with the Orange Prize though I have read a couple of them. This list doesn’t...

Nov 22nd

Nov 17th

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Man Booker 2011

A little late, I’m reading I have read my way through the 2011 Booker longlist. The simple fact is that the nominees are not very consistently great these days… but here we go. Read Patrick McGuinness The Last Hundred Days (Seren Books) (longlist) The first I’ve read of the list and I hope it’s not indicative of the quality. This was very disappointing and frankly I rushed through the last...

Nov 1st

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Happy People

Mar 9th

Odin and other charmers →

Feb 25th

Feb 1st

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Christmas day in the Rynok in Lviv - skating rink...

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Dec 25th

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Drumming class Inverness

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Aug 6th

How Abdelbaset al-Megrahi and Libya were framed... →

Jul 22nd

World's most expensive pineapple grown in Cornwall... →

Jul 14th

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If I Purchase a Ship

“If I purchase a Ship I open an account for the ship, debit that account to Cash, for the purchase money, to whatever other description of property I have given for it, and credit the amount by whatever I receive by the Ship, as freight, &c., and, also, if I sell it, by whatever I may receive for it.” From Book-keeping, an Irish National School Book, published by direction of the...

Jul 11th

A Thought for Anyone on a Ferry Today

The hobo in the park May be frozen in the darkBut at least he has a benchOn which to lie.When you’re sailing down the MinchAnd your tummy feels the pinchYou may want to get your head down— So do I! But on our brand new ferryBe you squeamish sick — or very! —The only place to sleep Is in the bar!!They’ll be bawling out “fil oro” When you try your best to...

Jul 7th

Wild Times in Harris

Yesterday in Bunavoneadar See and download the full gallery on posterous

Jul 2nd

"Coincidence?" I think not.

Scottish Daily Mail, 28 March 1947 Coincidence? A man who can play the piano with his knuckles fell down a manhole at Claxted-St Olaf. He climbed out again and the first person he met was a niece he had not seen for two years. (Special cable)

Jun 29th

“Da answer phone’s caald ublinkin licht accuses me o da crime at darena...”

– Christie Williamson, The Scottish Poetry Library

Jun 15th

“Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an...”

– Oscar Wilde

Jun 12th