Wyrd bið swiþre þonne ænges monnes gehygd.

Greetings to you. I mean for this blog to be dedicated to the lands of my kinsmen, the British Isles.

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Rose, we're bereft. Where have you gone?

she died smoking crack in Cancun, gave me ( @sideyr ) control of the blog

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Steall Falls, Scotland - December 2018

Pentax K1000 on Lomography 400

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Kilchurn Castle, Loch Awe, Argyll and Bute, Scotland.

Kilchurn Castle was a fortress, a comfortable residence and later a garrison stronghold, and contains the oldest surviving barracks on the British mainland. Its five-storey tower house dominates the complex, with a lower hall, courtyard and barracks below.

Kilchurn Castle was built in the mid-1400s, and it remained the base of the mighty Campbells of Glenorchy for 150 years. After the first Jacobite Rising of 1689, Kilchurn was converted into a garrison stronghold, but was abandoned by the end of the 1700s.

📸 by Amy Wong

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The Wind that Shakes the Barley (2006)

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George Henry Grenville

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Mari Lwyd and her procession visit a cottage in rural Wales and challenges the family inside to a contest, if they win she’ll leave. Unable to remember enough verses of a folk song, they lose the game and the visitors are allowed into the Christmas party.

Here We Come A-Wassailing, 1977

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Mossy mansion

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Partners in moss

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Tintagel Old Post Office, Tintagel, Cornwall. A 14th-century stone house that briefly served as a post office in the Victorian era.

[alifeingrain]

Monmouthshire, Wales - September 2018

Rolleicord Vb on Kodak Portra 160

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Ancient footbridge on the moors

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“Like a dismal cirque Of Druid stones, upon a forlorn moor, When the chill rain begins at shut of eve..” -John Keats // Castlerigg Stone Circle | GarettPhotography

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Setting off for Snowdon shortly before 7am on a cold November morning. My camera sees better than me in the dark; that’s why I love my baby.

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“Skellig Michael (Irish: Sceilig Mhichíl), or Great Skellig (Irish: Sceilig Mhór), is an island (the larger of the two Skellig Islands) in the Atlantic Ocean, 11.6 km west of the Iveragh Peninsula in County Kerry, Ireland. A Christian monastery was founded on the island at some point between the 6th and 8th century, and was continuously occupied until its abandonment in the late 12th century. The remains of the monastery, along with most of the island itself, became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1996.

Skellig Michael was uninhabited prior to the foundation of its monastery. Folklore holds that Ir, son of Míl Espáine, was buried on the island, and a text from the 8th or 9th century states that Duagh, King of West Munster, fled to “Scellecc” after a feud with the Kings of Cashel, although it is not known whether these events actually took place.

The monastic site on the island is located on a terraced shelf 600 feet above sea-level, and developed between the sixth and eighth century. It contains six beehive cells, two oratories as well as a number of stone crosses and slabs. It also contains a later medieval church. The cells and oratories are all of dry-built corbel construction. A carefully designed system for collecting and purifying water in cisterns was developed. It has been estimated that no more than twelve monks and an abbot lived here at any one time. A hermitage is located on the south peak.”

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