British isles peoples?

[levigsp]

Strange but true. People had been living in isolation on St Kilda since 2000 BC and had probably been climbing cliffs barefoot for who knows how long. Consequently they evolved gripping toes.
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Photography on the edge: Part 1

Photographs of St Kilda in the Trust collections reveal tourists hungry to ‘experience’ the ‘primitive’ life of the islanders.

www.nts.org.uk

If you want to study the various tribes and communities who make up the human history of the British Isles, St Kildans have to be one of the strangest and most fascinating. A virtually stone age community of land-bound, non-seafaring people surviving on a tiny treeless storm-lashed rock in the north Atlantic in almost total isolation for thousands of years, predating the Scots, the Picts, the Norsemen and the Romans, right up until the 20th century when they were rendered extinct by the modern world.
They're a topic in their own right.

One of the sad facts about St Kilda that's very rarely talked about, by anyone is that they were thinned out on a regular basis by Slavers and shipped round the world.

 

[reloader54]

I moved to Caithness many moons ago, for good reason.
In general the people are VERY friendly and helpful and the only prejudice I found was from drunks who had nothing, they blamed everybody except themselves for having nothing. The tinklers who are now of even more mixed blood then when I first arrived were a strange lot, untrusting and untrustworthy of some people, yet they would help others with their last breath. I helped one who was frowned upon by society to move, he moved to the queen charlotte islands and he has done very well for himself. Caithness is not for everybody, the twisted faces of adult woman show how hard its environment is, but if you can hack it, its GODs own country.

my friends mother and father have been there for some time,far longer than him at about 20 years ago. he recently lost his mother, and has also recently become divorced himself, he now lives in an old school with his adult son and his dog, he intends to renovate and live there, and he is a builder by trade so will no doubt do a fine job, his father is a military vehicle collector. and has quite a few vehicles I believe.

 

[Highlandsjohn]

That might explain this add in the P.O. in Durness I was reading after a trip down to Smoo. Apparently a group of workers had traveled from Thurso to Durness,stopping for a dram occasionally. Anyway when they arrived in Durness,one of the guys noticed the Compressor / welder they were towing was missing,which led to the add.
Compressor miss-laid somewhere between Thurso and Durness £20.00 reward + a half bottle of whisky...

 

[opticron1]

I'm in Durness next week so I'll keep an eye out for it! It'll be in one of the fields along with the other bits of car/van/boat/farm equipment!

 

[Jack0106]

That's not the half of it, it's the Celtic gene causing the Brexit impasse.
Think about it, for 800 years we rejected every proposal made to resolve the Irish impasse, now we've hit critical mass in the uk parliament so everyone there is totally certain what they don't want but can't agree on what they do want.
It's been a long time coming but revenge is sweet, pity about the collateral damage, sorry Arlene sorry Sammy.

COYBIG

 

[paul o']

SORRY Off post but it came to mind seeing that again .
I Used to love watching the old clampetts as a lad and thinking why do all the girls in the USA have big tits and tight shorts ?later in life i found out when i married a Texan but I was young then could't see past the fiddly bits , but soon as i could i got rid of it as there off the rockers on what i could never work out ?? i used to call her tornado Trish ! why you may ask well well she would fly off the handle smash lots of stuff and then leave, without me knowing why??

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Where is the OP.......looking for Texas

Tim.243
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[AN DU RU FOX]

Wait till you get to pie eaters!! Thall need a **** load of head warch pills!!!

 

[potshotpat]

Wait till you get to pie eaters!! Thall need a **** load of head warch pills!!!

Oh so true, watched a TV program a few years ago and I kid you not it was subtitled and it was needed. I only live about three miles from the border with them. Dialect is Wiganese.