I spent the afternoon at the world class Anchorage Museum. Stunning piece on salmon as culture by Erin Ggaadimits Ivalu Gingrich.

For a zooarchaeologist thinking about human-bird engagements the collection on display at the Anchorage Museum is staggeringly thought provoking. Here's a slow-developing thread on what they have.

RIP Alain Delon, who inspired me to buy a YSL mac from eBay in which I looked a total prick and which caused total strangers to shout ‘Inspector Gadget!’ at me from passing cars.

How Breton folktales from France connect to traditional Irish folklore #folklore
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In Scottish Gaelic too. There's a good research piece here on how Gaels see colour
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It's indeed correct, derived from 'iasg' meaning fish

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Just a PSA: if you teach kids aged 16 to 18 at any recognised institution anywhere in the world, your pupils (and you, I think?) can read the FT for free. professional.ft.com/en-gb/servic...

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In Scottish wholesomeness, there's a guy who runs around Helensburgh each night making different grid patterns for his young son on Strava.

Our neighbouring village (in the North of the Isle of Lewis) put an eel to work keeping the holy well clean. Presumably all the algae it could eat.

Ma tha sibh airson daoine aig a bheil Gàidhlig a lorg air Blueskye, tadhlaibh air My Feeds agus an uair sin dèanaibh lorg airson "Inbhir na Gàidhlig", is urrainn dhuibh an t-inbhir ud a leantainn agus chì sibh na puist Gàidhlig an-seo an uair sin.

Iceland has an issue with lupin too I think, a lovely lavender shade but invasive.

Long traditions of using it in Gaelic medicine and as a dye, but does seem to have taken a growth spurt in the last few years in the Hebrides. Not at rhododendron levels yet though...

People with an interest in Gàidhlig, lichen, early industrial chemistry or textile artwork might be interested in this exhibition at the Pipe Factory.

I'm informed that cudbear has returned to the East End after rather a long time away...

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