Stone balancing, we have all seen them or tried it at one time or another. Wikipedia calls it Rock balancing […]
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Where did it all begin?
McLellan Family Blog – Think On
I Started Out with Nothin and I Still Got Most of It Left
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Campbeltown Loch
Most folk will know the famous Whisky song but it would appear that few know about the poem by Archibald […]
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Sometimes…
… I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits. Quote by A.A. Milne I have always liked A.A. Milne […]
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Song Composed in August…
By Robert Burns – 1783 To the Tune: I had a horse, I had nae mair. Now westlin winds and […]
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Home and love…
Home And Love. Just Home and Love! the words are small Four little letters unto each; And yet you will […]
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Toto, I have a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.
Sunset at Machrihanish Bay, Machrihanish, Kintyre, Argyll, Scotland. The famous line from The Wizard of Oz (by L. Frank Baum) […]
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Wynken, Blynken and Nod
A favourite children’s poem. Wynken, Blynken, and Nod By Eugene Field Wynken, Blynken, and Nod one night Sailed off in […]
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Alone – A Poem by Edgar Allan Poe
One of my favourite Edgar Allan Poe pieces. Alone – A Poem by Edgar Allan Poe From childhood’s hour I […]
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Amazing how editing images makes you feel nostalgic…
Editing some of my photos taken last July and loved this one of the old Corphin Bridge not too far […]
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My Heart’s In The Highlands
Another favourite of mine by Robert Burns.. My Heart’s In The Highlands By Robert Burns – 1789 Sang to the […]
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“Elementary, my dear Watson” … Something the great Sherlock Holmes never said!
Something the great Sherlock Holmes never said! For the discerning Sherlock Holmes fan…The Sherlock Holmes Woven Blanket Product Information: Woven […]
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What the best dressed Bushcrafter is wearing these days.
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A Man’s A Man For A’ That
A Man’s A Man For A’ That – By Robert Burns – 1795 Is there for honest Poverty That hings […]
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Relic of a bygone era…
An old carriage from the Campbeltown & Machrihanish Light Railway Company. After the closure of the railway line, many of […]
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Kintyre, It is 40 miles long and every mile is beautiful
A fantastic glimpse of Kintyre circa 1955. Includes one of the simplest and best descriptions of Kintyre; “It is 40 […]
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Innean nan Gailleann (Bay of Storms)
Probably one of my most favourite places…ever! Just round the corner from Machrihanish. “Here in the scree, grow great quantities […]
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Great way to re-purpose something very British…
Like many other phone boxes throughout the country, this one has been turned into a small library. What a fantastic […]
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The Bluebell…
The Bluebell is the sweetest flower That waves in summer air: Its blossoms have the mightiest power To soothe my […]
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Believe me, my young friend,
… there is nothing – absolutely nothing – half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. Kenneth […]
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The sea is everything
It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where […]
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Everyone must believe in something…
I believe I’ll go canoeing. Henry David Thoreau
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Gnarly Tree
The more often we see the things around us – even the beautiful and wonderful things – the more they […]
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness
The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that […]
At the beach, life is different…
… Time doesn’t move hour to hour but mood to moment. We live by the currents, plan by the tides, […]