LOOKING FORWARD TO 2016 BRINGING US A FULL NEST AT LOCH GARTEN WITH EJ AND ODIN AT THE HELM.
Unknown said: www.youtube.com/watch I found this video very interesting. However, if you do not eat beef liver or chicken liver or will not cut up a whole, but already cleaned chicken - Fair Warning!! DO NOT WATCH THIS.
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I found this video very interesting. However, if you do not eat beef liver or chicken liver or will not cut up a whole, but already cleaned chicken - Fair Warning!! DO NOT WATCH THIS.
Generally they are now farmed Haggis especially if you want a good Chieftain with a lot of meat on it but you can still be lucky and catch them in the wild.
Unlike the Mountain Hare which changes its fur colour to white to evade predators in winter the Haggis maintain the same colour all year round and many are taken on the hillside by Buzzards and Eagles.
A tagged Golden Eagle features on Winterwatch starting tomorrow for four nights from The Cairngorms National park and also features them hunting Haggis.
Just as you say, Keith! :) Thanks for the information.
The pictures are nice. Remind me of another Burns video I was watching: To a Mouse.
My two Haggis posts are all messed up. They are really supposed to be one and the picture link takes us to the wrong place, but I don't know how to correct it. But the printed link is good. Please excuse my blundering.
Good evening all . Happy Burns night to you Keith love your Haggis. Enjoy your meal and Whisky.
Thankyou for the videos and music June Will have to watch tomorrow as I cant play on this computer :(
AUSTRALIA DAY TODAY
Australia Day is on January 26 and commemorates the establishment of the first European settlement at Port Jackson, now part of Sydney, in 1788.
On January 26, 1788, the First Fleet of 11 ships from Great Britain arrived at Port Jackson, which now forms Sydney Harbour. The First Fleet was led by Captain Arthur Philip. He established the Colony of New South Wales, the first penal colony in Australia.
Both I and my wife have many Cousins, Aunts and Uncles who left our shores in the early sixties all bound for Australia by sea on a £10 ticket (Children were immigrated free) and known as £10 POMS. I still have very clear memories as a child standing at the docks waving our relatives Goodbye.
Click on the picture to hear the beautiful voice of Judith Durham and The Seekers
She sang this when we went to see them on their 50th Anniversary Tour at The Albert Hall London in 2014.
LOL Keith, loved the mountain haggis!
Boy oh boy, your post of Judith Durham really took me back to the sixties. She was a favourite of mine and my friends at the time. One played guitar and we often sang songs like I'll Never Find Another You, The Carnival is Over Georgy Girl and Morningtown Ride. Although we knew the music, I for one hadn't realised she was Australian!
Happy Australia Day to our Australian friends.
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Keith thanks for your latest post on international culture. This is one thing that I have always loved about The Gabfest!
I had never heard of Australia Day, but your short paragraph on Australian history was familiar to me. You might be surprised at what one learns in Harlequin romances.
We once were good friends with a couple who had come from New Zealand and their recent ancestors had come from Scotland. This couple returned frequently to New Zealand, although not to Scotland. Now I'd like more details but I no longer have that connection.
After spending these years on the Gabfest, it has seemed to me that you all "country-hop" much more than Americans. For example, Fish was from another country and her kids were scattered all over everywhere. Of course, if you cross the Channel you are in a foreign country, whereas if we cross the Ohio River we are in another state, but still our own country. Then also, USA has no other country who is under one leader, such as Canada and Britain and Australia. I really have a difficult time putting it all in perspective, culturally and even distance.
Do you still have contact with your relatives in Australia? Do they ever return to Scotland for a visit? Have you and/or Susan ever visited Australia? Would you like to?
From Facebook
As today is Up Helly Aa in Lerwick I just went to Google Earth to get a glimpse of the setting and found that they have all new camera work. Almost as good as the real travel might be. I know this is old stuff, even boring, to Keith, but I find the Lerwick waterfront so exciting. And this latest photography shows the craziest ship pulled up at the docks. Well, not the ship, just its paint job.