Today's sheep and oatmeal news

[Pilgrim]

I kindly thanks the forum members for a lovely, lovely set of replies.

My earlier post was successful as what can be described as "a fat lob over the center of the plate"....perhaps more idiom to be learned?

[PhilT]

Neither my wife or I have any Scottish heritage, but we did join our Scott-ish friends on Saturday night to celebrate someone called Rabbie Burns, who seems to have written rather a lot of indecipherable poetry. That evening involved haggis, which is very tasty and right up there with black pudding in the ranks of food that is good to eat, but you don't want to dwell too much on the details.

The nearest I got to appreciating Burns was when Fairport Convention put a version of "Tam Lin" on the "Liege and Lief" album.

[Highlander]

this is his last home...


... and these are his "graves..." the mausoleum was built by a close friend of his...

[Psycho Bass Guy]

My family name, Campbell, is pretty much a curse word in most of Scotland, because as I tell people, it's not the massacre of other clans; it's which massacre. Least I can say with pride that I come from a long line of SOB's, and I come by my personality honest.

[Highlander]

I have Campbell's and MacDonalds in the family, with a smattering of MacKenzie & Macleod...

But due to Island history and being a Stewart, and modifying geneaology to a modern vernacular, I'm descended from thugs that used to be "enforcers" for a well known 1800's drugs baron... 

[Pilgrim]

Brown & MacGeorge (or McGeorge) here...although a long way back.

My last name, Powell, comes from the Land of Totally Incomprehensible Words For Everything, aka: Wales.

diolch yn fawr iawn  (thanks very much)

[Highlander]

Yachydda Boyo... 

The darkest side of being part of my family is that the ancestors were actively involved in the "Clearances", which is not something to be proud of... 

[SKATE RAT]

macleod

[Freuds_Cat]

"Eating Crow" is an expression. no one actually eats a crow.

South Australians are referred to by Australians as Croweaters.

The main Football team here is called the Crows. One of the ironies is that we actually have very few Crows in the habitable parts of our state. Most of the birds that get called crows are actually Ravens. Pedantic of me I know but pettiness has its own humor.

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/09/17/1032054817917.html

[Highlander]

MacLeod = Son of Leod

Leod was a Viking Prince, son of Olaf the Black, who ruled over the Kingdom of Man (Scottish Western Isles and the Isle of Man)

A true MacLeod will be genetically traceable to Norwegian bloodlines...

Leod can also mean "ugly" in the Gaelic...

The Clan normally gather at Dunvegan Castle on the Isle Of Skye...

(Bryan... there can be only one... )

[Pilgrim]

Like they said in the James Gang album:  "Made Leod to be played Leod."