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A sometimes silly, sometimes whimsical and nostalgic look at my adopted home country. Even though I don't live there anymore, I still consider it the place I call "home".
Just some artwork I found here on DA, interspersed with comments about what it means to be Scottish. If you find yourself smiling and nodding at those, you've probably spent some time there yourself
You know you're from Scotland when....
T in the Park is, in your opinion, the best summer music festival.
You love Irn-Bru and can't understand people that say it's sickly sweet fizz with bright artificial colouring. It's also the best hangover cure you believe.
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"Scattered showers with outbreaks of sunshine and a cold northerly wind" is good weather! A sunny day with temp of 13c is time to wear shorts, skimpy clothes and have a BBQ!
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The only sausage you like is "square".
You call New Year's Eve "Hogmanay" and don't seem to think 2 days national holiday is long enough to recover from the partying!
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Haggis is a tasty national dish not a glorified sheep's stomach filled with random minced organs and oats. Sean Connery was the best James Bond.
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You know curling and shinty are sports not birds.
You know a wide vocabulary of random Scottish words - an idiot is "a numpty". "Aye"- yes. "Aye Right"-not likely. "Atspish"- that's not good. "Auldjin"- someone over 40. "Baltic"-freezing. "bawbag"-useless person. "Hoaching" - full (as in a room)."Dry Boak"-sickened. etc.
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You know what a Ceilidh is and how to pronounce it properly! You know how to strip the willow and do the Gay Gordons! Guaranteed floor fillers at weddings, grad balls, etc. Up there with the tango as a celebrated dance. Sweatier and more violent than the jive, but maybe not as sexy as Cuban salsa.
You casually tell foreign friends that if it wasn't for the Scots there would be no telly, penicillin, golf, fax machines, telephones, steam engine, insulin, radar, bicycles, The Chilean Navy, Bank of England, raincoats, cloned sheep, whisky, postage stamps, refrigerators etc.
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You have an enormous feeling of dread whenever the Scotland national football team play a "diddy" team that we will lose.
You know that Scotland will never actually win the football World Cup, but keep partying anyway!
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People ask you if the Loch Ness Monster exists or haggis is an animal and you try to spread the myth further by stating it's true. Also You can keep a straight face when explaining about a haggis having its left legs shorter than its right and you can catch them by making them run the wrong way round a hill!
You can quite happily spend a whole day in the pub!
You are in the USA and are constantly told "I love your accent, it's so....sexy!"
There are no lakes, only lochs. (well...apart from Lake of Menteith)
Castles are no big deal and you are oddly fascinated by how excited tourists get talking about them.
You can't resist while drunk putting a traffic cone on any statue you are able to clamber up.
The sound of the pipes puts a wee spring in your step (and a wee tear in your eye).
You don't see ordinary coos in the field, you see Heelan coos. Yep they are the 70's rock stars of the cattle world, available in 11 shades of orange. Extras include Harley Davidson handlebar horns!
You have "Flower of Scotland" on your iPod.
You sit and read long lists about what it's like to be Scottish and actually enjoy it. You laugh at all the silly things we Scots do.
By the way, if you have any more suggestions, put them in the comments. I'd love to hear more of those!
Just some artwork I found here on DA, interspersed with comments about what it means to be Scottish. If you find yourself smiling and nodding at those, you've probably spent some time there yourself
You know you're from Scotland when....
T in the Park is, in your opinion, the best summer music festival.
You love Irn-Bru and can't understand people that say it's sickly sweet fizz with bright artificial colouring. It's also the best hangover cure you believe.
:thumb119038656:
"Scattered showers with outbreaks of sunshine and a cold northerly wind" is good weather! A sunny day with temp of 13c is time to wear shorts, skimpy clothes and have a BBQ!
:thumb106034278: :thumb35902068::thumb117162114:
The only sausage you like is "square".
You call New Year's Eve "Hogmanay" and don't seem to think 2 days national holiday is long enough to recover from the partying!
:thumb75115215:
Haggis is a tasty national dish not a glorified sheep's stomach filled with random minced organs and oats. Sean Connery was the best James Bond.
:thumb112210158:
You know curling and shinty are sports not birds.
You know a wide vocabulary of random Scottish words - an idiot is "a numpty". "Aye"- yes. "Aye Right"-not likely. "Atspish"- that's not good. "Auldjin"- someone over 40. "Baltic"-freezing. "bawbag"-useless person. "Hoaching" - full (as in a room)."Dry Boak"-sickened. etc.
:thumb112958471:
You know what a Ceilidh is and how to pronounce it properly! You know how to strip the willow and do the Gay Gordons! Guaranteed floor fillers at weddings, grad balls, etc. Up there with the tango as a celebrated dance. Sweatier and more violent than the jive, but maybe not as sexy as Cuban salsa.
You casually tell foreign friends that if it wasn't for the Scots there would be no telly, penicillin, golf, fax machines, telephones, steam engine, insulin, radar, bicycles, The Chilean Navy, Bank of England, raincoats, cloned sheep, whisky, postage stamps, refrigerators etc.
:thumb43086893:
You have an enormous feeling of dread whenever the Scotland national football team play a "diddy" team that we will lose.
You know that Scotland will never actually win the football World Cup, but keep partying anyway!
:thumb38915940:
People ask you if the Loch Ness Monster exists or haggis is an animal and you try to spread the myth further by stating it's true. Also You can keep a straight face when explaining about a haggis having its left legs shorter than its right and you can catch them by making them run the wrong way round a hill!
You can quite happily spend a whole day in the pub!
You are in the USA and are constantly told "I love your accent, it's so....sexy!"
There are no lakes, only lochs. (well...apart from Lake of Menteith)
Castles are no big deal and you are oddly fascinated by how excited tourists get talking about them.
You can't resist while drunk putting a traffic cone on any statue you are able to clamber up.
The sound of the pipes puts a wee spring in your step (and a wee tear in your eye).
You don't see ordinary coos in the field, you see Heelan coos. Yep they are the 70's rock stars of the cattle world, available in 11 shades of orange. Extras include Harley Davidson handlebar horns!
You have "Flower of Scotland" on your iPod.
You sit and read long lists about what it's like to be Scottish and actually enjoy it. You laugh at all the silly things we Scots do.
By the way, if you have any more suggestions, put them in the comments. I'd love to hear more of those!
Devious Journal Entry
It's been a while... almost a year to be precise. But I have finally found my way back to DA :) And what a year it's been! Lots of sailing, holidays, work and even some gardening.
I'm not sure about you, but I'm thoroughly fed up with winter now! I was going to plant some spring flowers last weekend, but then it started snowing again. So now I'm "planting" those flowers in my journal, together with other spring-themed images. Goodbye winter, hello spring!
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Finally, an update!
I know, I know, it's been almost a year since my last journal. Life has a habit of getting in the way when all you really want to do is procrastinate online! But a lot of things have happened in the last twelve months. I'm learning how to sail, I sold my old, trusty Sony Alpha 230 and a whole load of other stuff and bought a (used) Alpha 550. I photographed my first wedding, nerve-wracking, fun and incredibly hot (in Verona/Italy in August!) The flat has been redecorated and I'm planning to go back to uni, if the bureaucrats let me in (don't ask!)
What an exciting year! I do hope I can spend more time on here in the next twelve months, and I
Stuff for sale
I have too much stuff! So I've decided to sell the following items:
Minolta AF 75-300/F4.5-5.6
bought it in 2000 and used it as my regular telezoom lens until Christmas 2010
as far as I can tell, no fungus
minor scratch on one side of the front lens, not visible in pictures
with lens hood
40 Euros
Minolta AF 28-80/F3.5-5.6
bought together with the telezoom
as far as I can tell, no fungus
30 Euros
Holga 120 CFN
bought this in 2008 and have used it maybe once, it's just not me :)
30 Euros
Minolta camerabag, shoulderbag
space for body with attached lens plus 2 other lenses and filters etc
black
10 Euros
might add some more if I
It's only Rock 'n' Roll (But I like It)...
...is the name of my new exhibition, hopefully from mid-April here in D-Town. My second exhibition after "Faces" last year. Very exciting!
Hence the new feature: Bands/Concerts
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Scotland is perhaps one of my favourite countries! Beautiful landscapes! Fantastic Scotch Whiskey! A rich history as well!