For folk who love the history, the literature, the songs & the guid Scots tongue in our part of Ayrshire, join us for a very special evening in Darvel on the 24th. Please retweet discoverdarvel.com
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Afore my gig in Darvel on April 24th, here's
a film I made for the BBC lang syne on the weaving tradition there. You can find out more about Robyn Stapleton & I on discoverdarvel.com She'll sing songs like The Shuttle Rins too. A braw nicht beckons.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aL5...
Afore my gig in Darvel on April 24th, here's
a film I made for the BBC lang syne on the weaving tradition there. You can find out more about Robyn Stapleton & I on discoverdarvel.com She'll sing songs like The Shuttle Rins too. A braw nicht beckons.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aL5...
I spent a year in Dundee in the mid 90s and have fond memories of this amazing little shop. So sad it is no more, and Castle Street will no longer be filled with the wonderful aroma of roasted coffee, but hopefully at least something of the elegant shopfront will survive.
Nooooooooooooooooooo!
Sad to hear of the closure of this great Dundee institution. I stocked up last week, and no mention of what was to come. One of those old Quaker families like Cadbury and Bewlay who offered Temperance beverages as an alternative to alcohol. I miss the aroma already!
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The iconic Declaration of Arbroath dates back to this day in 1320. If you want to learn about its making, its impact over the centuries & its contemporary legacy in New York's Tartan Week celebrations, my series here is just what you need. Ah, fredome is a nobill thing!
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Here’s a wee flavour fae Born in Kyle - ma strang memory o the wee evangelical kirk in Gawston c 1956 when it wis cried the Dippers as folk were dookit in watter tae be baptised there lang syne. Hou monie o ye can mind o the haund movements that gaed wi this sang?
The iconic Declaration of Arbroath dates back to this day in 1320. If you want to learn about its making, its impact over the centuries & its contemporary legacy in New York's Tartan Week celebrations, my series here is just what you need. Ah, fredome is a nobill thing!
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When I spoke at the prize giving at Kilmarnock Academy, I was proud to mention Lord Boyd Orr and Sir Alexander Fleming as former pupils who were Nobel Prize laureates. Fleming is honoured all over Iberia, including here in Donostia in the Basque Country.
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When I spoke at the prize giving at Kilmarnock Academy, I was proud to mention Lord Boyd Orr and Sir Alexander Fleming as former pupils who were Nobel Prize laureates. Fleming is honoured all over Iberia, including here in Donostia in the Basque Country.
Here’s a wee flavour fae Born in Kyle - ma strang memory o the wee evangelical kirk in Gawston c 1956 when it wis cried the Dippers as folk were dookit in watter tae be baptised there lang syne. Hou monie o ye can mind o the haund movements that gaed wi this sang?
Sorry, I cannae dae that.
Tak tent o sma things, aye, thon’s aw guid an weel. But tak tent o muckle things tae, guid friens, like a spoken leid wi a kenspeckle leiterature gaun back a thoosan year. Yaise it ilka day ma fiers - for gin we dinnae tak tent, it’s tint. Here ends ma Scots Sermon for Pasch.🏴❤️
If you fancy listening to the fascinating history of the language spoken by 1.5 million brother & sister Scots or total immersion in the rich spoken Scots of 1950’s Ayrshire, these audiobooks are for you. Gie yer lugs a treat, friens. Ye’ll no regret it. www.audible.co.uk/author/Billy...
Tak tent o sma things, aye, thon’s aw guid an weel. But tak tent o muckle things tae, guid friens, like a spoken leid wi a kenspeckle leiterature gaun back a thoosan year. Yaise it ilka day ma fiers - for gin we dinnae tak tent, it’s tint. Here ends ma Scots Sermon for Pasch.🏴❤️
The main thing bein that fowk fae baith airts had a guid Scots tongue in their heid! Haud gaun, frien.
If you fancy listening to the fascinating history of the language spoken by 1.5 million brother & sister Scots or total immersion in the rich spoken Scots of 1950’s Ayrshire, these audiobooks are for you. Gie yer lugs a treat, friens. Ye’ll no regret it. www.audible.co.uk/author/Billy...
Aye aye Billy, a jist read The Mither Tongue whilst oan wir hoalidays in Tenerife. It remindet me o workin wie twa billies fae Montrose. They wore bits on their feet and breeks on their legs, farbyes in Peterheid, we wear beets on wir feet and bricks on wir legs.
Three weeks tonight I'll be reading from my memoir of growing up in the Irvine Valley in the 1950s while Robyn Stapleton sings the great Scots songs we knew, from Burns to Alan Ramsay. We'll also celebrate the ancient weaving tradition which lives on today.
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A highlight of a recent visit to the excellent Perth museum is this superb Pictish stone, where lighting is used to highlight the details of the intricate carving.
A highlight of a recent visit to the excellent Perth museum is this superb Pictish stone, where lighting is used to highlight the details of the intricate carving.
You can listen to me narrating Born in Kyle on Audible, or read it via Amazon or Kindle. This is a passage from the chapter on Scots saws, proverbs and sayings current in my childhood in the Irvine Valley.
Five weeks the day I’m takin ma memoir o bein from Born in Kyle ower the border tae Carrick wi the brilliant Gallowa sangster Robyn Stapleton. Hope tae see a guid wheen o ye in Girvan. It’ll be braw.
On celebrating our amazing day out yesterday, we were insulted by yoon trolls and had to have a block party. The previous triumphalism of the majority has turned to the petty nastiness of a beleaguered minority who know that their days in the unionist laager are numbered. 🏴❤️
On celebrating our amazing day out yesterday, we were insulted by yoon trolls and had to have a block party. The previous triumphalism of the majority has turned to the petty nastiness of a beleaguered minority who know that their days in the unionist laager are numbered. 🏴❤️
You can listen to me narrating Born in Kyle on Audible, or read it via Amazon or Kindle. This is a passage from the chapter on Scots saws, proverbs and sayings current in my childhood in the Irvine Valley.
