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Féar Gortha: The Irish Hungry Grass
I've never been to the west of Ireland, but it's most definitely on my bucket list. I'm 98% certain that I have genealogy in Antrim; and there's a possibility of Galway too, though the latter is much more tenuous.
Connemara sounds amazing. ...
JoHarrington, on 10/12/2013
Becoming more self-reliant
One thing strongly struck me was that self-reliance is not necessarily solitary. Today I was helped by my son, and we got the work done in alf the time. As I have raised beds that I was filling with compost, he could help me lift the laden ...
frankbeswick, on 10/12/2013
Haunted Battlefields: The Ghosts of Killiecrankie
I did note the rich variety fo whisky, but I do not drink whisky very often.
frankbeswick, on 10/12/2013
Communism Deluxe Tour of Nowa Huta in Krakow
I admit the Trabant idea is great for business. I still remember them. I'm glad you had a great time. The views look familiar. Many of the towns built from scratch (or almost) in Communist times look like that over here.
From British books about ...
Mira, on 10/12/2013
Féar Gortha: The Irish Hungry Grass
Connemara is something special, a strange, ancient land of rock,bog and lake that stands out from the distance as a majestic view. I have some ancestors from there, but no living relatives. Those who have lived in the West of Ireland, as I did ...
frankbeswick, on 10/12/2013
Presidents Who Served First as Vice-Presidents
I never knew much about any of those presidents (except that Theodore Roosevelt is one of the faces of Mount Rushmore). I never knew there were so many presidents who were vice presidents! Thanks for sharing your history here.
AlexandriaIngham, on 10/12/2013
Haunted Battlefields: The Ghosts of Killiecrankie
Same! Red Squirrel Campsite was so gorgeous! We got it out of the Cool Camping Scotland book. Did you check out the massive variety of whisky in the pub down the bottom of the slope? I most certainly did!
It was the hospitality angle which ...
JoHarrington, on 10/12/2013
Haunted Battlefields: The Ghosts of Killiecrankie
I stayed at Red Squirrel campsite, which is a pleasant little place by the river.
What strikes me, though, is that by highland standards the massacre of Glencoe was nothing out of the ordinary.It was the treachery that made it unacceptable. ...
frankbeswick, on 10/12/2013
The Birth of Edward VI: Joy Surrounded in Misery
It's medical term is puerperal fever and was a bacterial infection. I don't think it happens that much today since antibiotics are around and can clear the infection. I've not done much hunting or research, though. I think the biggest problem ...
AlexandriaIngham, on 10/12/2013
The Birth of Edward VI: Joy Surrounded in Misery
I keep coming across 'childbed fever' in histories and it's never occurred to me to actually work out what that would be today. Do you have any idea?
Nice telling of the birth of Edward VI. :)
Random fact of the day to go with it: there ...
JoHarrington, on 10/12/2013
A timely tale of three cities
I shared this on our community Pinterest board.
http://www.pinterest.com/pin/183943966003928553/
cmoneyspinner, on 10/12/2013
Communism Deluxe Tour of Nowa Huta in Krakow
*slaps head* I really should have remembered that, shouldn't I? In my defence, I'd only just woken up when I replied to you before, and my mind was full of the Krakow Ghetto. I transferred all available (first cuppa) mental capacity to the ...
JoHarrington, on 10/12/2013
Visiting Auschwitz: Twenty Years After Writing my Dissertation About It
Ah! In that case, make mine a scrumpy with a whisky chaser! :D
JoHarrington, on 10/12/2013
Communism Deluxe Tour of Nowa Huta in Krakow
The Poles never forgot that the Soviets hadn't helped them during the Warsaw Uprising. They'd waited on the other side of the river and didn't intervene.
The way our guide told it, the Soviets wanted to be the great liberators all by ...
JoHarrington, on 10/12/2013
Visiting Auschwitz: Twenty Years After Writing my Dissertation About It
Jo, beer is a generic term in Australia, it means your favourite alcohol. No fence can reign in our egalitarian thirst.
Fargy, on 10/11/2013