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Rather than minimum pricing, why not negotiate a modest rise in alcohol duty (therefore instead of increasing supermarket profits, increasing gov. revenue to be spent on eg programmes to help alcoholics). Better still, Scotland or the UK should nationalise the sale of alcohol in

@Caollaghan As in a Scottish trade unionist or a Scottish Labour candidate for election, lower case "u" unionist by default? Or a Scottish advocate of the Soviet Union?

@AliBobTom A derogatory term for a Scottish Labour Unionist.

Voted last night. Outside, I saw an SNP, a Green,and a SLABBO having a rare old convo. Later on in the evening they were still there, and I couldn't resist calling the SNP campaigner out. What happened next surprised me. All three loudly jeered me. That, to me, spoke volumes.

A recipe for chicken curry, from Scottish family papers in the late 1700s/early 1800s. The recipe calls for chicken, butter, onion, lemon and cayenne pepper, with a curry powder made from coriander, cumin and turmeric. Try the recipe yourself here! bit.ly/CurryNRS

Just a local walk through ancient woodland Around 50% of the world's bluebells are found in the UK #LadiesSpringWoods SSI #Beauchief

@elchuchii @Civil_War_Spain Fair point. Well, it's a largely organic stall which is a fairly niche thing here, so I suspect even a lot of the Spanish produce would fall short of the expectations of some of the mostly upper middle class customers.

@AliBobTom @Civil_War_Spain Except the whole bunch of european regulations towards fertilizers

The Great Wall of China may not be visible from space but Almería's greenhouses certainly are. Essential piece in European supermarket supply chains, migrant workers toil in their heat to keep our tomatoes cheap. Often illlegal wages+slums without electricity, running water or sanitation

@Civil_War_Spain not very far from their homeland.

@Civil_War_Spain I work at a fruit & veg stall on Saturday mornings - not my main job, just some extra income & social contact. I always think there's not that much difference between buying Morrocan or Spanish fruit if many of the workers in Spain are Morrocans working in the far south of Spain,

@MBitaudeau @Yann2229354456 Oddly enough, the Carolingian monetary system Britain stopped using in the 1970s was a legacy of the first Holy Roman Emperor. Charlemagne's empire is kind of the nucleus of both France & Germany - Britain has always been adopting wider European standards.

@Yann2229354456 Aucun pays de l’UE n’est indépendant, la Bretagne, l’Ecosse, la Catalogne veulent faire parties de l’UE, et l’UE ce n’est pas l’indépendance !

Et certains vous diront le plus sérieusement du monde que la #Bretagne, avec ses 34 000 km□ et ses 4,9 millions d'habitants, n'est pas en mesure d'être indépendante ou même autonome 😮‍💨

@Lifeguard50 @AndyCountryside The neighbours' cat killed the blackbird chicks growing up in our garden a couple of times in the past. Didn't actually eat it of course, presumably because it didn't need to.

@AndyCountryside So precious now that they are in decline . It’s predicted that their numbers will recover though 🤞🏻

The second brood of #blackbirds are filling the nest. They'll be fledging soon! 🙂

@AnClaiomhSolais @GaulishThe35998 @TomOHanlon17 What is?

@GaulishThe35998 @AliBobTom @TomOHanlon17 Once again, complete bollocks.

While Brian Boru was High King of Ireland 🇮🇪 from 1002 AD, the Irish language was also dominant in the Gaelic kingdom of Scotland The Gael, Coinneach mac Dhuibh, was the King of Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 at this time.

@GaulishThe35998 @TomOHanlon17 Although some people have been saying more recently (can't remember where I read it) Alba might have been what the Picts called the area. He was half Pictish after all & a great many Scots continued to have Pictish heritage even if Gaelic language & culture came to predominate.

@AliBobTom @TomOHanlon17 When Kenneth McAlpin created the Kingdom of Alba, he was basically saying he was king of Britain as he saw himself as the leader of the Gaels in Britain.

@elitejcx @Aldamir @TomOHanlon17 My understanding is Galwegian Gaelic had influence from the Norse Gaels, the people who also ruled the Kingdom of the Isles & the Viking Kingdom of Dublin, hence the name Galloway. It originally referred to "foreign Gaels". I'm not sure if Gaelic was present in the area before.

@Aldamir @TomOHanlon17 Yeah. Etymology of place names in Ayrshire and Dumfries and Galloway points to a long establish Irish speaking population too.

@GaulishThe35998 @TomOHanlon17 predominated in both countries. I wouldn't definine Scottish Gaelic language & culture of the era as Irish. Closely related to Irish, yes, but Gaelic language & culture had been present in Scotland for about 500 years by this point, so pretty well native at this juncture.

@GaulishThe35998 @TomOHanlon17 The thing is that by now, modern Scottish Gaelic is in some ways more like Middle Irish than modern Irish is. More conservative spelling, grammar & vocabulary, as I understand. Still, my perspective would be to see this period as one in which a largely shared Gaelic culture

@AnClaiomhSolais @GaulishThe35998 @TomOHanlon17 different from the close relationship between lots of neighbouring languages in that respect.

@AnClaiomhSolais @GaulishThe35998 @TomOHanlon17 My understanding is there was a largely shared literary language for the elite, but the local dialects that most Gaels actually spoke were often quite different, although eg Antrim Irish was similar to Scottish Gaelic & eg Arran Gaelic was similar to Irish. Not really any

...get drunk in working hours, in my experience.

It does remind me of another era. Having worked in several breweries myself, in this day & age even people who make alcohol for a living don't... Hannah Spencer riles fellow MPs with attack on parliament’s drinking culture | Hannah Spencer | The Guardian share.google/aU7BrPsXKVQmx6…

Look who’s giving my aspen root cuttings a biological hand. Small toadstools often appear in #peatfree compost mixes with bark. They don’t harm what you’re growing and lead to healthy plants. Resulting treelings will help restore rainforest to the sheep-scalped Welsh uplands 🌳

@J99616 @murrayJamescoo1 Intrinsically different from Enclosure? Was that genocide too?

@murrayJamescoo1 Highland and lowland clearances were a genocide. Never forget.

Office today, Dumyat, the fort of the Maetae, the survivors of Scotland’s only recorded genocide, ordered by Emperor Septimius Severus.