tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13344062.post4671285916235639295..comments2024-02-18T17:35:25.382+00:00Comments on Bloggin fae the 'Burn: <i>Ulster-Scots thoughts</i>: 'The Truth About Ulster' - Frank Frankfort Moore (1914)Mark Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12820251983224121718noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13344062.post-83514002099854210042015-12-03T17:01:20.709+00:002015-12-03T17:01:20.709+00:00Hello Mark.
Thanks for the introduction to a most ...Hello Mark.<br />Thanks for the introduction to a most interesting book--it cost me a nights sleep reading it.<br />Anent the part on saints days holidays, did I tell you of the time Westminster brought out an edict on these during the killing times here in Scotland==anyone working their land on one of these days would have their horses/owsen removed and sold.<br />One old farmer on the banks of the Nith, yeclept Armstrong by name, living within sight of the redcoats barracks, yoked his ten sons to the plough and ploughed the full day in the face of the passing soldiers.<br />Would that their descendants have shown the same backbone during the recent referendumgutcherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04508334969673986123noreply@blogger.com