tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post1611954284937964339..comments2024-03-28T07:16:39.621+00:00Comments on Lallands Peat Worrier: Cochrane's ParadoxLallands Peat Worrierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18276270498204697708noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post-77565240334409579002014-03-05T16:23:54.737+00:002014-03-05T16:23:54.737+00:00Ah the Harvill edition - fab cover!Our eldest has ...Ah the Harvill edition - fab cover!Our eldest has the Collins first inscribed to her as 'fellow Thistle fan' by George.Edwin Moorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05317173893948248954noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post-40734822725535340712014-03-05T11:52:44.719+00:002014-03-05T11:52:44.719+00:00"Wi' a wanion, an' tha'!" As...<i>"Wi' a wanion, an' tha'!"</i> As a child, I always loved <a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mnZArBgZIRI/TeN-h70tHlI/AAAAAAAABCg/M6Dvt85_et8/s400/IMG_1491.jpg" rel="nofollow">the cover</a> of the version of <i>The Pyrates</i> we had in the house. Lallands Peat Worrierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07238432265194046726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post-32309626396117642992014-03-05T06:26:13.607+00:002014-03-05T06:26:13.607+00:00Kidd seems to have been a Dundee man - of course t...Kidd seems to have been a Dundee man - of course the best novel on Pyrates is by George MacDonald Fraser!Edwin Moorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05317173893948248954noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post-47967926028644017092014-03-04T23:42:01.116+00:002014-03-04T23:42:01.116+00:00Now that's Low...Now that's Low...Conan the Librarian™https://www.blogger.com/profile/01904339261121451779noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post-18996970283960102832014-03-04T23:20:09.890+00:002014-03-04T23:20:09.890+00:00*Cries of rum and shame*
I hope that's a cali...*Cries of rum and shame*<br /><br />I hope that's a calico doublet, Jack...Lallands Peat Worrierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07238432265194046726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post-81622402071881116622014-03-04T21:42:08.629+00:002014-03-04T21:42:08.629+00:00What a Bonny woodcut of oor Alan as he writes his ...What a Bonny woodcut of oor Alan as he writes his latest, complete with smoke coming out of his ears.<br /><br />I Kidd you not, Every time I come on here, you Teach me something...<br /><br />I'll get me doublet and be shovin' off Andy lad.Conan the Librarian™https://www.blogger.com/profile/01904339261121451779noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post-68679060965491937222014-03-04T11:30:08.791+00:002014-03-04T11:30:08.791+00:00Edwin,
I think there's something to that. A f...Edwin,<br /><br />I think there's something to that. A few historical figures come to mind in the same connection. Robert Louis Stevenson, Scotsman? Or is an Edinburgh lawyer who writes primarily in standard English not <i>on</i> in the same way? There is at least an articulation of Scottishness which would see some forms of "Anglicisation" meaning you are "less" Scottish. The idea of Edinburgh as "not really" a Scottish city always seemed to me to echo that logic. The same goes for some of its denizens, including some of its most famous, include David Hume and Stevenson, who don't fit in well to the (arguably dominant?) lens of seeing alpha Scottishness in terms of working class men from the urban west central Scotland. Lallands Peat Worrierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07238432265194046726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post-50930514066981277082014-03-03T18:42:46.318+00:002014-03-03T18:42:46.318+00:00Musing on Scottish divisions, Alan Cochrane, and ...Musing on Scottish divisions, Alan Cochrane, and JCS' creator George Fraser - I was at George's Memorial in London, and talking with a friend back in Glasgow afterwards, we noted the lack of response from Holyrood (then Labour run of course). George was born in England but of Scottish origin, and closely connected to Scotland all his life - and in his books. <br /><br />Yet for the Scottish establishment George was Not One of Us. <br /><br />How do we divide as Scots? We divide in lots of ways, but also share. I share with Salmond a reverence for James Robertson's novels. I vote Labour and not SNP, yet culturally, I found it embarrassing that Jack McConnell chose to enthuse over Michelle McManus winning a TV talent show rather than Nicola Benedetti winning the BBC Young Musician of the Year. <br /><br />Nae harm to Michelle, but Nicola was clearly a major talent.<br /><br />Culturally - in some ways - I seem to be more at home with both the Tory Alan Cochrane and with Eck than with some of the people I align with politically. There is a fabric there which makes us what we are, and will continue to make us what we are, come what may in September.Edwin Moorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05317173893948248954noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post-9651527485424970952014-03-03T17:28:58.718+00:002014-03-03T17:28:58.718+00:00It worked on Flashman though, These days of course...It worked on Flashman though, These days of course we are all skolars with translation engines.<br /><br />Edwin Moorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05317173893948248954noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post-21155962097115890122014-03-03T16:49:10.851+00:002014-03-03T16:49:10.851+00:00"Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur, a...<i>"Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur</i>, and no mistake. Lallands Peat Worrierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07238432265194046726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post-69911878126160757612014-03-03T16:02:53.031+00:002014-03-03T16:02:53.031+00:00As John Charity Spring was wont to say, quidquid p...<br />As John Charity Spring was wont to say, quidquid praecipites esto brevis, but shurely the cat in the Scottish version of Schrodinger's Boax is no 'fluffy kitten' but Felis silvestris silvestris, or to give it its subspecies name, Felis silvestris silvestris McAlpinus, a rare survival indeed.Edwin Moorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05317173893948248954noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post-44704091026900431732014-03-03T15:43:51.941+00:002014-03-03T15:43:51.941+00:00Love it.Love it.Norriehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06249891701471823838noreply@blogger.com