SHIPS

2 Tough and Crazy people get together and consider life through the Oracle of the Animated Gif. They contemplate SHIPS. All year they have been researching the 19th century and they are mightily impressed with the nippiness with which the early Colonial hithered and thithered along the Coast and even unto and from Far Off Lands. They have just returned from a trip along the Northern Rivers of NSW and up into New England. SHIPS and BOATS and CANOES. Wot a fine way to get about !

The world is sending explanatory notes
Loading ships and planes with them,
We have sent our explanatory notes
Even to faraway stars and planets.

Three Poems

By JAMAL KAMAL

  

The Wanderer

All day they loitered by the resting ships,
Telling their beauties over, taking stock;

by John Masefield

FAMILY AND HERITAGE

2 Tough and Crazy people get together and consider life through the Oracle of the Animated Gif. They contemplate family and heritage. They have been Wild Country Travelling for 2 weeks visiting the Living and the Passed.  There’s a good deal of the Scot in HER background. CRAIGS, BELLS, Macs  AND MORE.

If the blood is strong, the heart is Highland!

That’s the MCLEANS. MACKAYS.MCLEODS,MCNEILLS and more.

My heart’s in the Highlands, my heart is not here
My heart’s in the Highlands, a-chasing the deer
A-chasing the wild deer, and following the roe;
My heart’s in the Highlands, wherever I go.
Robert Burns

Or an excerpt from the Declaration of Arbroath
as long as but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we on any conditions be brought under English rule. It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom — for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself.

 

Is sàmhach an obair dol a dholaidh. 

Going to ruin is silent work.

 

http://www.archive.org/stream/gaelicproverbspr00macd/gaelicproverbspr00macd_djvu.txt

GAELIC PROVERBS. 

The fox and the wolf, walking together, came upon an ass 

quietly grazing in a meadow.
The fox pointed out an inscription on one of the ass's hind
hoofs, and, addressing the wolf, said : "Go you and read
that, you are a scholar and I am not." The wolf, flattered
by the request, went proudly forward, and coming too close
to the ass, got knocked in the head, leaving the fox to
enjoy their common spoil. 

87 Cha'n i a mliuc is sàimliche
Is lugh a dh'itheas de'n drabh. 

It is not the quietest sow that eats the least. 

Is theab nach deachaidh.
" Almost " went over a rock,
And almost didn't.