Hands down, still one of the best descriptive paragraphs I’ve ever read:
“I’m confronted by a customer with an extremely high pitched voice
and impenetrable Highland accent. This is one of those tiny old Scottish
women with a headscarf nailed on and muscles like steel wires. They are
a common sight in the East of Scotland, and are almost immortal. Only
the slow action of the wind off the north sea will gradually erode them.”@thebibliosphere because Reasons.
I have never ready anything so accurate in my life.
Tag: caledonia yer callin me~~
“Kilchurn Castle….no editing, raw off the iPhone. JUST PURE SCOTLAND BEAUTY!”- Now, you can’t argue with that! ❤️
📍 Lochawe, Argyll
📷 Stephanie Alexander Ballard
Landscape like out of a fairytale. It is believed, that there are living higher beings like fairys or even mountain trolls.
the only piece of writing that I liked by Burns when I was a teen was Tam O’ Shanter and I think that’s entirely because it involved a guy on the drink getting scared of what he thinks he sees in the dark on the walk home
if you’ve ever lived in rural Scotland that’s incredibly relatable
All the Hebrideans are probably asleep but consider:
Established girl names: Skye, Isla(y), Jura, Barra, Tiree, Rona
Established boy names: Lewis, Harris, Coll, Arran
Unexplored gender neutral territory for the hipster gays to name their hipster kids: Mull, Uist, Vatersay, Raasay, Gigha, Luing, Bute, Lismore, Colonsay, Hirta, Eigg, Rhum, Muck, Scalpay, ok Eriskay is actually a good one
“So is it Benjamin? Benedict?”
“…….Benbecula.”
if it happened at all, it happened like that 