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Mick Harper
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I apologise for losing my temper just because I missed my usual regular eggs.
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A couple of days ago I was participating in a Facebook discussion of the antiquity, or not, of traditions/ customs. It was unexpectedly irreverent and I wasn't banned. Just come across a new comment about Scottish dancing which resonates with our own material

Hebridean dance is distinct to wider traditional Scottish dance. And most believe it developed in the Outer Hebrides in very early Celtic culture. However the most famous teacher of Hebridean dance was active in the early nineteenth century just two hundred years ago. A local priest I knew, who had trained in the Scottish College in Spain, had studied the history of this teacher and established that he had traveled extensively with the British army in Spain and Portugal during the Peninsular War. But when he also pointed out that significant features of Hebridean dance corresponded to steps and gestures in Flamenco most people took great offence.

It may be interest in Hebridean dance was kickstarted when Victoria and Albert fell in love with the Scottish highlands. Either way, I find the group's general scepticism encouraging
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Flippety-floppety, it doesn't take much for specialists to turn everything around. Remember, the chief purpose of the specialist is to differentiate him or herself from the broad masses and once the broad masses are infused with, say, belief in the vast antiquity of everything, so the specialist delights in puncturing these laughable opinions by joyfully pointing out they've got it all wrong. Again. It just doesn't happen very often. And presumably they are never aware of who or what led them to the paradigm shift.

One of themselves will get the credit, the one who wrote 'the book' on it. He or she will not be responsible since, as we have observed time and again, specialists are always too suffused with knowledge themselves. Lead them to the promised land and then quietly take your leave.
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Mick Harper
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Now it's potatoes. All you can get is those ones that are too small to bake and too big to eat. What on earth are they up to in the country?
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Chad


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Have you got a chip pan?
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Mick Harper
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Jesus Christ, Chad, I know you're from the north but at least you're not from the country. Chips come in large bags not pans.
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These are not normal times Mike. You have to improvise.

Lard... You must have some lard? If not, don’t worry, you can always use dripping.
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Mick Harper
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I love it when you call me Mike. Hatty doesn't and has added you and Wiley to the list of people able to read my The Oxus Treasure: Is It? in revenge. You may have to log out and in again, Michael Finnegan. You don't mind if I call you Michael, do you? Perhaps we should all adopt Michael derivatives as noms-de-guerre. Never did Michael and Michaela Denis any harm. Not Mickey Dripping though, I've had enough of that to last me a lifetime. Thank God they're abolishing families as part of the Coming Out Of Lockdown programme. Apparently Boris insisted on it after 'three days with the condor' as he cheerfully put it.
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The Penmon font is dated to the 10th century. It, like the two Penmon stone crosses, are yet more objects that predate the church they stand in. Penmon is believed to be a medieval priory founded on the site of a much earlier 6th-century Celtic priory established by St Seiriol. Nash in the '50s thought the font was actually the base of a stone cross. But ortho still insists it is a font.

Where was it found, you might ask?

According to Nash it was found in a 19th century stone mason's yard.

Who would have guessed that?

https://bit.ly/2LhUhUu
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You may have to log out and in again,


All good now.

Thanks Mick... and Hazza.
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Wile E. Coyote wrote:
The Penmon font is dated to the 10th century. It, like the two Penmon stone crosses, are yet more objects that predate the church they stand in.

Why would a font or a cross 'predate' the church? Do historians think masons showcased pieces of stone sculpture to prove to the local lord or bishop they were qualified to build a larger, complex structure, e.g. a stone (or, as usually claimed, wooden) church?
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Mick Harper
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I will add some (still unvarnished) Penmon material from the book 'downstairs'.
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And so to potatoes. On being presented with Tesco's only offering, a bag of medium-sized Maris Pipers, I bought them tant pis. Now I had already experimented with Spud-u-like sized baked potatoes and knew they took an hour. So these, I figured, would take half that, which was convenient because that coincided with my beef casserole with carrots and dumplings cooking time. In they all went together.

Disaster. Casserole ready, potatoes like bullets. Why oh why hadn't I just boiled the beggars? I'll tell you why. I don't know when it happened but 'new' potatoes or 'salad' potatoes or 'baby' potatoes have been available the year round for some years and who in their right minds is ever going to buy boiling potatoes? Not me, bub. But I suppose it's just one more thing one has to get used to in this brave new lockdown world.

An old thing of course in this case. Did you know 'taters' meaning cold comes from squaddies having to peel potatoes on the barrack square as a punishment? That's what my brother told me anyway and he nearly did National Service.
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Mick Harper
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I looked it up out of interest and got this

Taters: When potatoes are nearing their time for harvest, the earth is heaped up around them. This heap is a "mould". we then have taters (potatoes) in the mould = cold.

Oh, right, Cockney rhyming slang. Great ones for growing their own, Cockneys, and then using a technical phrase that nobody's ever heard of. I'm with you on this one, Pete.
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I was just gearing myself up for Bank Holiday Monday only to discover that it's been and gone last Friday!
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