On board flight UA592 to Dallas, I examine Gaelic Without Groans, the text book I have pilfered from my sister Orla’s old childhood bedroom. The cover boasts an ecstatic pink Highland cow perched in a rowing boat. The cow appears quite at home in such a craft. It looks like it has spent its life […]
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Hielan coo picture of the week – double shot
Two bedraggled Glaswegian coos! Saw these rather decrepit looking beasties when Adrian and I were marshalling the 2010 Forget Me Not Walk for Leukaemia and Lymphoma Research in Pollok Park in Glasgow a few months back. By the time we’d been hauled out of bed on a Sunday morning, manhandled into vast, tent-like luminous marshall […]
Hielan Calf picture of the week
For the second captivating installment of this thrilling series, here’s a wee Hielan’ calf with her maw, also in a field in Tennessee. It was a very damp and muddy field, full of retired US army guys who were a bit too enthusiastic about drunkenly waving round broadswords for my liking. Despite the damp and […]
Hielan Coo picture of the week
I probably won’t actually get around to posting one coo picture every week, but I don’t have a whole lot else to do with myself over here in Berlin (other than puzzling over the numbers of bear-shaped meat products on sale and finishing the Scottish Ambassador book), so maybe I will. Anyway, this is a […]
