Fearfu’ o’ yer sonsie face
There’s yins agin yer puddin’ race
But Charley Barley’s on yer case
He’ll raise yer swank
Abune them a’ wi guile an’ grace
A guinea’s rank!
 
Is there in a’ Amerikay
The like o’ you upon this day?
My rantin roarin’ gaze I’ll lay
On thy blyde face
And tho’ some plans gang aft aglay
Thou’re fu’ o’ grace.
 
Great is thy [...]

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Like a lonesome wolf the wind howled around Rolling Acres, battering the many windows of The Sunroom of Eternity and keeping gentle EffCee from his rightful slumbers.
How, I thought, could I keep fpu amused and gainfully occupied on such an utterly crapulous©mjc day? I did all my cute things, like rushing up and down the [...]

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Remember the thirteenth? Reet graidly it were, (’Scuse me a moment, I inadvertantly fell into a Bill Sowerbutts) a lovely lovely day. Sun from dawn to dusk, balmy air, no wind to speak of - and believe me, if there is, we do.
Inspired and energised, fpu donned scruffy Red Cross gardening clothes (you might be [...]

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les petits crapauds

Slowly slowly the realisation has dawned that, now we are outwith the linguistic corsets of Auntie, we may, if we so choose, speak in tongues other than English and Gaelic. 
All of a sudden I feel like a flibbertygibbeting feline flapper, throwing my semantic stays to the four winds and able to embrace [...]

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Is it lucky to have a black cat cross your path…when it only has three legs? Maybe its three-quarters lucky. When I saw this interloper - birdwatching at the Feeding Station of Opporchancity, naturally I was miffed, to say the least. My magnificent rear appendage fluffed up mightily - [...]

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First Day Sunset
You couldn’t ask for a better start to a New Year. While me and Marmers demolished half a plump juicy Bressingham duck breast (with red wine jus, for we are nothing if not discerning gourmets) the pu’s and Jeelie Piece strolled down to the Pierhead to hear the Stromness RBL Pipe Band [...]

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