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En Train
After a lovely Saturday – caught up with old chum over brunch and then went to see the frankly divine Karine Polwart in her Edinburgh Festival debut, Wind Resistance – I would say go go go but it’s selt oot – we hied off to the Borders from Edinburgh on the new (to us) railway,…
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Family history upate
These documents are being exhibited here in response to a query from Jimmy Black.
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When I Consider How My Light is Spent
When I consider how my light is spent Ere half my days in this dark world and wide, And that one talent which is death to hide Lodg’d with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he returning chide; “Doth God exact day-labour, light…
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Idle hands
I am going to stick my neck out here, for once. Why on earth would anyone set themselves up as a sign writer when they cannot spell? I can only think of three reasons. 1). They don’t care. 2). They don’t know. 3). They are blissfully unaware that it matters and everyone else is too…
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Vision Off
Enduring some antics on behalf of the PC, erstwhile abode of the photo archive. The in house tech team has marshalled all his resources and performed miracles in restoring a semblance of normality, at a particularly trying time work wise for both of us, so yet again huge respect is due. Updating BTW on the…
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Downside
It would appear that our PC has given up the ghost, the deus ex machina is taking an extended leave of absence, the hamster in the wheel has taken the huff. I shan’t be able to post any more 2016 pictures (who said hooray?) unless I upload them to the laptop and for the record…
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Peregrinations
Having spent two days doing A Thing That Had To Be Done, I now have some time of my own to pop some cheerier pictures on here. On Saturday we went to the badlands south of the the river, and firstly ascended Cairnpapple Hill, to find it full of some most interested cows, which…
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1st July 2016
The Floo’ers o’ the Forest Links to other, older pages on banthewasp. Buchan boys War medals Great Uncle John Great Uncle Jim
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24th June 2016
First They Came Pastor Martin Niemoller First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Communist Then they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Socialist Then they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak…