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- Jokes for everyone: Funniest British Laws
 Sep 23, 3:35pm  (2 reviews) humor http://just4fun2u.blogspot.com/2007/11/f...- From the page: "5. In Scotland, if someone knocks on your door and requires the use of your toilet, you must let them enter."
Hmmmm.....
- Amazon.co.uk: Ae Fond Kiss [2004]: Shabana Bakhsh, Eva Birthistle, Emma...
- Sep 23, 3:03pm
 (1 review) http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ae-Fond-Kiss-Sha... 
From the page: "The love between Roisin and Casim is impossible, because his family expects him to marry his Pakistani cousin. Marrying Roisin is out of the question, and the prospect of it risks to sever Casim from his family forever. Casim is torn between his love for Roisin and love for his family.
The handling of the conflict is very skilful, realistic and far from sentimental. We see both the heartbreak of Casim's family and that of the young couple, and we understand both."
Watched this tonight - highly recommend it!
- Sep 23, 11:00am
- Happy Birthday, Darkscot!
- http://www.mollylesher.com/gallery/index.php?album=photography%2F2008&...
- Sep 23, 9:37am photography http://www.mollylesher.com/gallery/index...
- Place for laugh: Nice wooden stairs
- Sep 23, 8:56am (42 reviews) arts http://place-for-laugh.com/2008/09/nice-...
We once lived in a house with a spiral wooden staircase - the dog wouldn't go near it!
- Golden-winged Warbler
- Sep 23, 8:53am (1 review) birds, photography http://www.birdcapemay.org/gallery/main....
Golden Winged Warbler
- Nothing To See Here: Rumbling Bridge, Perthshire
- Sep 23, 5:17am (1 review) card-games, perthshire http://www.nothingtoseehere.net/2008/09/...
The place marked "Rumbling Bridge" on my map intrigued me for so long that eventually I had to take a look. Not particularly convenient for anywhere else in deepest Perthshire, it's a bit of an adventure. Often these places can be a bit of a let down, I was fully prepared for somewhere that didn't have a bridge, nevermind a rumbling one, but there it is - true to its name.
Rumbling Bridge is unusual in two ways - firstly there are two bridges. The original was built in 1713 by William Gray, a local stonemason. Another was added over the top in 1816, to make a picturesque double bridge. The second remarkable thing is the noise. At first I couldn't hear anything different, but then I realised that my ears couldn't be hearing heavy traffic or a passing jet after all. Instead, this is the famous rumble.
Looking down 120ft from the viewing platform it's pretty clear where the noise comes from. There's a huge drop into a narrow gorge where the River Devon comes thundering down at great speed from the Cauldron Falls. It's pretty dramatic.
Once you're there there's a wooden walkway with viewing platforms that take you along past the falls to the Devil's Mill - a deep pool of water that feeds the dramatic falls. A U-shaped walk along one bank, across the bridge and back up the other side takes about 20 minutes and is easily negotiable provided you don't mind a lot of stairs.
Although Rumbling Bridge was once a thriving Victorian holiday destination it's a quiet place now and there's nothing much to see in the village. However it's worth dropping in for tea and cakes at the nearby Powmill Milk Bar.
- TheGlasgowStory: The Bricklayers
- Sep 23, 4:52am (2 reviews) arts http://www.theglasgowstory.com/image.php...
The Bricklayers by Stephen Adam, c 1878, one of a series of twenty stained glass windows made for Maryhill Burgh Halls showing local trades and professions. This window depicts two bricklayers at work on wooden scaffolding.
Mary Hill (1730-1809) had inherited the Gairbraid estate and married Robert Graham, a former sea captain who had been captured by Barbary pirates and held as a slave in Algeria. As part of the deal he made with the Forth and Clyde Canal Co to cross the estate, Graham insisted that the area around the graving dock built between locks 22 and 23 should be named for his wife, and so "Maryhill" appeared on the map.
By 1850 the population of Maryhill had risen to nearly 3,000 and a host of new industries had opened along the canal. Maryhill became a Police Burgh in 1856 and demand for industrial premises and tenements kept local builders fully employed.
- TheGlasgowStory: Glasgow Shipwrights Society
- Sep 23, 4:48am (2 reviews) history http://www.theglasgowstory.com/image.php...
The banner of the Glasgow Shipwrights' Society supporting the Franchise Bill that paved the way for the Reform Act of 1884.
The Franchise Bill proposed the extension of the vote to men living in rural areas who owned land worth more than £10 or who paid as much in annual rent. The Liberal Party supported the Bill but the Conservatives opposed it and blocked its progress through the House of Lords. The Associated Shipwrights' Society sent notices to all its Glasgow branches encouraging members to attend the huge franchise demonstration which was held in the city in support of the Bill in September 1884. This banner must have been carried at the rally and depicts Liberal Party leader William Gladstone ("Billy"), along with the figures of Justice and someone who resembles Mr Punch but may represent John Bull. Justice holds a set of scales showing that the Bill is more important than the opinion of the House of Lords.
The Glasgow Shipwrights' Society was formed in 1845. It ceased to exist in 1882 when the union became part of the Associated Shipwrights' Society but the old name clearly continued in use, at least until 1884.
- Round the bend on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
- Sep 23, 4:27am (1 review) photography http://www.flickr.com/photos/rachel_s/28...
 
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