Ben Y Vrackie from the old A9 recently. Just south of Bruar.
Tuesday 31 May 2011
Saturday 28 May 2011
Gil Scott Heron "Home Is Where The Hatred Is" (1971)
Brilliant lyrics, wonderful stuff. Imagine leaving a legacy like this. What a gift.
Friday 27 May 2011
Saturday 14 May 2011
Biscuit of the week - the Coco-nut Ring
I'm repeating myself again. I knew I shouldn't have eaten that second slice of black pudding this morning.
No. I have featured the Co-operative Coco-nut Ring as biscuit of the week before.
I'm sorry to be doing it again, really I am, but I have a very limited biscuit range. I only really eat Toffee Dodgers, jam sandwich creams (Fox's, preferably) and these. And that's probably quite enough. I'm not really interested in further biscuit exploration. I don't care for a chocolate biscuit as a rule, but if I do I would probably opt for a KitKat. Although I quite like those really chunky chocolate chip cookies. I dislike the word "cookie".
Anyway - the coconut ring is a plain biscuit, light and shortbready in texture with a very good coconut flavour - so good that it might well be artificial but I can't be bothered checking the list of ingredients to find out. There are loads in the packet and they're only 87p so a pretty good buy I reckon.
Highly recommended.
Biscuit of the week. The Co-operative Coco-nut Ring.
Friday 13 May 2011
Scots wurd(s) o' th' day - fuckin' radge
We're abandoning Chambers's Scots Dictionary for the moment and coming bang up to date (well...1970s/80s) with our Scots wurds o' th' day.
Fuckin' radge. Or, fuckin' radgepot. Common parlance in the Edinburgh I remember so well from my youth.
Fuckin' adj. (NOT Scots, of course. It's merely a frequently employed prefix)
Radge(pot) n.
As in, "Ye're a fuckin' radgepot, ya bam."
I've just consulted Chambers's Scots dictionary (1959 edition) and I find the word "radgie". Interesting. I wonder if this is the same word? The dictionary has it as an adjective.
Radgie, adj. horse, &c.: becoming excited and plunging wildly.
It sounds plausible anyway.
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