Alba: Scotland

                                                                               "Daddy Cool"   Our daughter Claire, first coined  ' Daddy Cool',  regarding her Dad (me),  in her youth and over time nicknames  and pet names become permanent , rather like my wife Rosemary being called " Roma " by workmates when she was still  Rosemary MacDougall and  coincidently, in Scottish Gaelic, 'Roma' sounds like 'ro math!' , meaning very good...   My parents would be delighted!  💕 Sometimes Bilingualism is more useful than at other times... "Co-ghineadh" is Scottish Gaelic for the following: 1. copulation, mating Although this is free information, please think twice before you further share; as I'm now only semi-bilingual and my parents' opinions might not entirely approve? ( reminds me of my youth 😉)  💖

  Dànachd : verse (poetry) Sgrìobhaiche: scribe/correspondent, writer ... 1. ' Tha sin mar sin' "That's the way it goes, that's life", Gaelic-tradition: certainly runs rife! Family sayings and feelings surviving, But conversing in 'English' - is living? © Ewen A. Morrison ~ 'O, cuir an sgeul gu Mac-a-Bha is fag mar sin e!' (Oh, just leave it, forget about it, ok?) -------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Enigmatic I took the title with an enigmatic smile; Roma herself described me as such... agus * Bilingual rhyming: via my verses' file, Here's what's emerging and without fuss! © Ewen A. Morrison *(agus means: also, too/jointly) 3. Agus/Also This amateur to life's living, Gave what is to give, for-giving, Evolving's worth; while BEING, Surely, everyone including! © Ewen A. Morrison ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 4. Ro math! Very good! in this second language; Schooled in this Beur

   "Colonialism is always a cooperative venture" (as Frantz Fanon reminds us) Frantz Fanon: existentialist philosopher I've never really felt that Scotland was London's colony, but have sarcastically said:" We could choose to behave as if we are London's colony or resume Scotland's independence!  "There's NO room for  expressing dry, mocking, humour while existing in today's political circumstances... If Scotland's electorate isn't free to question our elected representatives, then we might as well be living in a dictatorship?! I'm happy to have grown within a family that loved reading a wide range of books and being free to contemplate much of life's challenges without surrendering our openness and free will! I feel that this is an absolutely fantastic result of our upbringing - hopefully, like today's youngsters?  Keira is the youngest of our grandchildren and is already in love with the arts and in particular her Bale

Blogger + ========================================================================= Contents ~ Evolving Born an amateur to life's living, Gifting what's loved for giving; Evolving's worth our sharing, Surely for all kinds,  evolving! © Ewen A. Morrison ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Europeans Recognize that the Union Jack is English, Realizing that Scotland is truly separate, That's entirely true and not just a wish; Sovereign Scots know, no need t' state! © Ewen A. Morrison ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Pending Scottish Sovereignty and pending Republicanism;  Absolutely different: decided by Scottish people... By gaining independence with Scotland's realism; Our Saltire flag heralding from freedom's steeple! © Ewen A. Morrison ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Additionally... further to the title ~  Posted on 16/3/2022... 350 Sauchiehall Street G2 3JD Glasgow For Writers By Writers, the Scottish Writers’ Centre (SWC) is a national resource support

Lost Souls?  😉 'A realistic human drama' was  our walk today,  Both Young and me: a luckless pair anyway; Two hapless victims of life... One might say.   It's where they are doomed to stay! Og x Ewenart                                                                                 © Ewen A Morrison                                               

Towerdrill's Base-unit...  Today's main task involved the forming of a suitable storage area for my Router and its 'Bits' etc.  In my youth, I'd worked as an apprentice in a reputable Home Furnishing business in Oban - at the time when everything was going Metric, and we were needing to use both 'Metric' and Imperial systems during the transition period, which felt fine, thanks to my age's schooling; however, my Boss was much older than me, and shortly afterwards my about-to-be workmate, was nine years older than me... nowadays I'm a retired man, and I  fondly remember being the youngster in that team! 🙂 That particular employment was really pleasurable and wonderfully informative - I'm always grateful for what I'd learned, including the processes involved in repairing and restoring classical furniture; also the numerous elements during a mixture of inter-trade jobs that we became involved with... thank goodness for the opportunity, th

Alba/Scotland's rebirth... regaining freedom?  🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 On 31/1/2020, we hear from our First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon... Scotland's future prospects are sure to be democratically guided by Scotland's electorate - and no other entity! Presently, London's government is clearly demonstrating many of the reasons that prove that their political behaviour is diametrically opposed to honestly-honourable! ❗️ This piece addresses both past and present: "In Scotland, 'Union' was assoc iated with military occupation, in England with heavy taxes and had  little popular support in either country. It was dissolved by the 1660 Restoration of Charles II despite a petition by Scottish members of the Commonwealth Parliament for its continuance"... (not unknown, of course) however, our predecessors couldn't even begin to imagine today! I'm writing this piece - and in hardly any time, a cousin, living in Australia, will read and may post hi

Snowfall... Snowy! Today's snowy weather is remarkably interesting as poor Rosemary has decided to 'err on the safe side and take a bus to her workplace... however, buses also suffer from weather conditions - thankfully, her boss was happy to collect her and a workmate in his 4 x 4 vehicle ~ very handy‼️😉 Otherwise, while my photograph shows my motorcycle in its weatherproofing, I'm comfortable that the Kawasaki's safely parked for a wee while longer before I return it indoors to the usual place in the first unit of our Craftshop/workshop; and its location for positive care and relevant benefits. 👍  That workshop's the physical and ultimate evidence of what had been a long-held intention for a number of years and the conclusion of a long time project.   because such notions seldom remain at the forefront of thought - while the description is an active element; the spirit of the prospect is truly ineffable: too great or extreme to be expressed or

                                                                        Resumption! The Kingdom of Scotland emerged as an independent sovereign state in the European Early Middle Ages and continued to exist until 1707... Scotland subsequently entered into a political union with England on 1 May 1707 to create the new Kingdom of Great Britain... however, one of the nations has failed to honour that 'political union', and that isn't Scotland: the United Kingdon is no longer legitimate; so both Scotland and England are freshly INDEPENDENT ‼️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 💓

Incumbent⁉️ Necessary, for as a duty, or responsibility; this train of thinking's universally sound... which doesn't relate to a single London Tory; seeing very few exceptions: avoidable wound! © Ewen A. Morrison 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 ............................................................... Scotland's deer population and its future? ⁉️ Numerous Scottish conservation groups have called for legally enforceable culls of the land's deer population... a reduction in the country’s wild deer population would help to counteract the accelerating climate crises (methane emissions). A beneficial form of deer stock-control management and the venison supply could be marketed safely! While I'm not an expert, I've read that the population is in the hundreds of thousands? Histo rically, however, the culling of deer has been carried out for a number of reasons (including financial ones! ~ biggest and best antler?). In other countries, like