Castles Under Construction

Scones with jam and everything else Scottish, a year in Edinburgh.

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[red-berin]

I must not nap. Napping is the motivation killer. Napping is the little-death that brings sleeping for 5 hours. I will face my fatigue. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will go to bed at a decent hour. Where the nap has gone there will be waking. Only I will stay awake.

[valtsv]

it's rotten work, but without the rot nothing can grow

[valtsv]

it's rotten work but decay is part of the cycle of death and rebirth

[schaudwen]

All the dead things: Its rotten work

The mushroom internet: Not to mycelium. Not if its you

[copperbadge]

"It's rotten work, but you cannot kill me in any way that matters."

[calamitys-child]

One of my favourite mundane weirdnesses about Edinburgh is that we set the big clock visible approaching the station to be 3 minutes fast to make sure people are on time for their trains. My Favourite mundane weirdness of Edinburgh is that we check this by firing a cannon.

[themirokai]

Sorry, a cannon?

[calamitys-child]

Every day but Sunday :)

[themirokai]

@calamitys-child I hope you don’t mind me pulling your tags out for posterity

Wait, is the cannon set to Big Clock Time or Actual Time?

[calamitys-child]

Cannon set to real time, big clock check themselves against it to make sure they're just slightly ahead! And it fires blank, though I worked out the range of it once and figured out if we ever loaded it I could put a hole in my mate's roof

[archaeo-geek]

We do this in Halifax, Nova Scotia as well. The Noon Gun. We always know it’s lunchtime when we hear the cannon go off.

Also there’s somebody running a Twitter account for it who just tweets the word “boom” every day at noon.

[ardatli]

Except for Hallowe'en, when they tweet "BOO"! I fell a little bit in love with them that day.

[wearemadeofblood]

[odinsblog]

Wow. Talk about attention to detail.

Video here: https://twitter.com/javi_draws/status/965260617790738432?s=21

[spookyold-saintjm]

I will probably reblog this every time I see it on my dash because it’s absolutely stunning

[onyxai]

This is literally insane. How did you have the patience. Tell me your secrets o’ art god.

[i-say-ok]

ok!!! :0

[anarchist-rat-swarm]

Part of me is like “neat. Reblog,” and part of me is like “I understand now why impressionism took off, because there’s a 0% chance the artist wasn’t like ‘fuck this shit’ by the halfway point.”

[thyming]

Unknown ♡

[m-ushroomtale]

[pangeen]

twisted oaks

by Giles Pease

[m-ushroomtale]

[catchymemes]

[celtic-pyro-deactivated20230725]

“Pants were invented for men” not according to my ancestors.

[creatrixarcanum]

Pants were invented for riding horses. People who didn’t have nomad horse culture all wore dresses. Dress wearing old greek men considered pants to be the mark of barbarism. Like the Scynthians and Samaritans.

Also- the Scynthian and Samaritan tribes were known for equality between genders. Where women were renouned hunters and archers. They are where the greeks got the idea for Amazons.

So sorry bro pants are totally for women. You just mad its for riding something that’s not you.

[its-zezzy]

Okay but like based on genital structure, it would actually make sense for mean to wear skirts and women pants, why are we even talking about logic

[grizoljub]

the scottish did it right

[my-little-bologna]

The Scottish did it to hide more knives

[keepcalmandcarriefischer]

The Scottish did it right

[linlithnoe]

I fed a lizard some cookie crumbs on my vacation <3 I have no idea if that's good for them (probably not), but while we were picknicking two of them were continually trying to climb into the cookie bag, so they seemed to know exactly what they wanted xD I made sure they didn't get any chocolate though, I'm pretty sure that's not good. They were both lovely, very curious and apparently used to humans. <3 10/10 would recommend that company.

[linlithnoe]

Best of... sort of :) It would be too hard to decide what has impressed us the most. That’s why I looked up a couple of pictures of thistles, and my favourite cow Dipsy (it really is her name) <3 It was such a lovely time in Scotland, we had so much fun and collected lots of good memories. It’s not going to be the last time we went there! I’m kind of glad I’m only doing this now, I was really sad to leave the life in Scotland behind - not to say that I’m not happy to be back in Berlin, reunited with my other friends and my family <3 Now it’s time to leave this blog-project as is (for the time being). This also means time for new projects! :-D

[linlithnoe]

23/08/18 Yet another stream <3 No worries, that’s enough (for now) :)

[linlithnoe]

23/08/18 Falkirk Kelpies. Falkirk is close to where we lived, yet we never went to see the Falkirk Kelpies! These sculptures are more than 30m high. This may not be the best shot of them, but to be fair, I took the picture as we drove by. Have some mythological inspiration <3

[linlithnoe]

23/08/18 And three more pictures from our Ben Vorlich tour, just because I can :)

[linlithnoe]

23/08/18 Spring of Youth. Just kidding! Back from Ben Vorlich, we decided to take off our shoes and enjoy the cold, refreshing water of a passing little stream. I love to take pictures of flowing water, nothing fascinates me quite like it. And there’s a lot of that to be had in Scotland! <3