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If you’re travelling to Scotland it may be worth learning some of these words. They are heard everywhere, and most of them have been included in the corpus of modern English vocabulary. ←Wauk yer wits •→wikihow.com/Understand-Scottish-Slang← ↓ Caa canny!
•→Kenneth MacNeill _ Highland clearances ⇐ febrero 12th, 2015 | Tags: Scotland, lyrics, links | Category: VDO | 5 comments 
⇐ ∞ Cheech & Chong, aka. ‘Los Cochinos’, come across some poop and → check it out ⇐ LOOK – PICK UP – FEEL – SMELL – TASTE – STEP . . . . . . DOGSHIT? ⇐ ÷ ÷ ÷ febrero 11th, 2015 | Tags: Scotland, Talks | Category: VDO, Interviews, monolog | 6 comments 
•→ http://www.davidshrigley.com/ ◊ Who I Am and What I Want ↓
♦ Blur ↓ ‘Good Song’
Waiting, I got no town to hide inThe country’s got a hold of my soulTV’s dead and there ain’t no war in […] 
¤ Liz Lochhead ⇓
⇒Makar Liz Lochhead was born in 1947 in Motherwell, from where the family moved to the nearby village of Newarthill. It was a “very normal, very Scottish, very proddy, posh working-class / lower middle-class life”. Everyone in family read a lot and used the public library as “there […] 
¤ Robert Burns ⇐ [1759-1796] ⇒ The Peoples Poet ⇐[BBC doc] «When death’s dark stream I ferry o’er, A time that surely shall come; In Heaven itself, I’ll ask no more, Than just a Highland welcome.» ◊→ «A RED, RED ROSE» ⇓ O, my luve’s like a red, red rose, That’s newly sprung […] 
If you’ve read Iain Banks‘s novel, you’ll enjoy the BBC-Radio 4 interview. → http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b016w0nf Includes an excerpt from Chapter 8 read by Iain Banks himself. Transcript below . . . Iain Banks meets James Naughtie and readers at the National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh to talk about his […] 
Rodrigo Paestra shots his unfaithful wife dead ↓ [10:30 P.M. Summer – directed by Jules Dassin, 1966]
From 1983, 10.30 On a Summer Night is Richard Jobson‘s own adaption of texts from the passionate novel by French author Marguerite Duras (1914 – 1996), the story of a […] 
1850 – 1894 ¤ The Beach of Falesá The story is told in the first person by John Wiltshire, a British copra trader on the fictional South Sea island of Falesá. Upon arriving on the island, he meets a rival trader named Case, who (in an apparently friendly gesture) arranges for him to be «married» to a local girl named Uma […] 
[1859-1930] ♦ ◊ ♦ ◊ Sherlock Holmes and the Sign of Four ↓ At the outset of the novel Doctor Watson states that he has been watching Holmes takes cocaine three times a day for many months. Watson’s reluctance to oppose Holmes is finally overcome and he confronts his friend […] 
For almost 40 years the Whistlebinkies have toured the world with their own brand of authentic Scottish traditional music. The quirky name is derived from the old Scots word for a bench: a ‘bink’. A whistlebinkie was someone who played the whistle whilst sitting on the bink. Other musicians who joined became known […] 
•→ Emily Smith introducing «TRAIVELLER’S JOY» (released on Jan. 24th, 2011) Husband-and-wife duo Emily Smith and Jamie McClennan have a musical partnership which has developed over almost 20 years. The couple met when McClennan moved from NZ to Scotland, his fiddle playing soon became an integral part of Emily’s sound, later taking on […] 
«My voice has gotten a lot better over the last 10 years, especially when it comes to ballads. … I had thyroid cancer a few years back and had a very serious operation, but I was lucky: I was in and out of the hospital in two or three days. And that […] 
→ Amy MacDonald← LIVE @ Rob Brydon Show BBC 2 (14.08.2012)
I get up in the evening, and I ain’t got nothing to say I come home in the morning, I go to bed feeling the same way I ain’t nothing but tired, man I’m just tired and bored with myself […] 
«I Wish I Was a Punk Rocker (With Flowers in My Hair)« was the debut single by Sandi Thom. The song, originally released in 2005, was written by Tom Gilbert and Thom herself. She got slagged off by not few of her peers… [Chorus] Oh I wish I was a punk rocker with […] 
Martha Wainwright and Jim Kerr recorded an original version of the iconic Simple Minds song ‘Promised You a Miracle’, to draw attention to the hundreds of thousands of women still dying from avoidable complications in childbirth and pregnancy. Ten years ago world leaders signed up to the Millenium Development Goals […] |
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