On Having The Right Amount Of Feck…. If You’d Like To Visit The Swandro Dig…..More Matters Archaeological…
by Bernie Bell - 08:06 on 27 June 2023
On Having The Right Amount Of Feck
Or – lines on approaching retirement…
I, insufficiently feckless to evade
All responsibility
Yet am unequipped for the proscribed fulfillingness.
So must leave excellent colleagues, feck-full,
To the drive, and learn,
To the mastery and achieve of it.
And now, finding my full fecklessness,
Am finally able to not give one
(A feck, that is).
McB 26.6.23
Composed while idling on the beach on a Monday morning.
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If You’d Like To Visit The Swandro Dig…
This might be helpful….
https://theorkneynews.scot/2022/06/06/visit-the-swandro-excavation/
Meanwhile – here’s t’blog….
https://www.swandro.co.uk/post/thunderbolts-lightning-very-very-frightening
Re. an earlier Swandro blog post – being from Yorkshire I call them clegs – and bear the scars of their bites!
Clegs
(Horse-Flies)
Lyrics composed by John Henderson on the 18th of February, 2015
A parody in English of WD Cocker's 1935 poem 'Clegs' in Scots
On Earth the Lord created man
According to a well thought plan
With beasts and birds and creeping things
That get about on legs or wings.
But jealous 'Nick', to show his cunning
Soon had more creatures up and running;
He made his worst with wings and legs,
So it was 'Nick' who dreamt up clegs.
Who but the 'Deil' would ever plan
A plague like that for beast or man?
Yes, quiet as drops of dew 'Nick's' clegs
Drop down upon your hands and legs.
A stab, a suck is their attack,
Then off they'll fly 'fore you can smack;
They'll drain you to the very dregs,
If you're their choice, Ugh! filthy clegs!
One cleg-bite's bad, but more's affliction
That just might add to their addiction
To target then your nose or cheek
With wounds that last until next week!
More supple than a mite or flea;
More troublesome than wasp or bee;
Chief of all pests with wings or legs;
Most ravenous of insects ..... CLEGS !
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More Matters Archaeological…
The Cairns dig so far – by the man himself – Martin Carruthers…
https://archaeologyorkney.com/2023/06/26/the-cairns-dig-diary-day-eleven/
Like he says…watch this space!
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Here’s one I made earlier…. https://theorkneynews.scot/2021/08/26/more-about-boats-brodgar/
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