Songs on the new album will include love songs – Caolas Eadar Mi is Iain, Iain Ghlinn Cuaich, Craobh nan Ùbhal and Ho mo nighean donn nan Gobhar; a traditional version of the Eriskay Love Lilt known as Gràdh Geal mo Chridh; a lament – Bheir mo Shoraidh thar Ghunaidh; some mouth music and waulking songs (or work songs); and the Robert Burns’ songs, The Highland Widow’s Lament and The Bonnie Lass of Albany.
Category: Argyll and Bute
FARMING IS NO LONGER A ‘MEN ONLY’ BUSINESS
“It is neither acceptable nor business-savvy for agencies, organisations and businesses that operate in Scottish agriculture today to be effectively male only. If we can help them to be better and more equitable, we should do so. Those agencies, organisations and businesses also need to hear clearly that men-only boards and governance structures must be consigned to the past. Scottish agriculture simply cannot afford to leave women behind, but changing a centuries-old culture will involve significant work. Crucially, it will require that everyone who has a stake and an interest in the future of agriculture in Scotland work together.
MoD KEEPS NEW NUKES REPORT SECRET
Staff shortages have prevented an official watchdog from completing all “essential tasks” to ensure the safety of the UK nuclear weapons programme, according to a previously confidential Ministry of Defence (MoD) report. A short extract from a report by the Defence Nuclear Safety Regulator (DNSR) – kept secret by the MoD since 2017 – reveals that the nuclear programme was struggling with shortages of “suitably qualified and experienced personnel”. Four pages of the DNSR annual report for 2015-16 were released by the MoD in the run-up to a freedom of information tribunal in London on 2 December. The tribunal is considering an appeal against the MoD’s refusal to publish the whole report.
WORST EVER SCHOOL RESULTS FOR SCIENCE AND MATHS
The Liberal Democrats may have lost their deposit in West Dunbartonshire at the 2017 General Election, but they were swiftly off their mark to upbraid the SNP for their performance in delivering education results in our schools.
NEW BOOK SHOW STARTS ON SUNDAY EVENING
It’s like taking over Doctor Who when you’re Russell Davies, ” O’Shea says. “You can’t go, ‘What would Tom Baker have done?’ You have to go, this is how we’re going to play it from here. It’s a rough analogy, and I’m very sorry I said it out loud now,” he adds, mock ruefully.
MIDDLETON STREET LIVING ADVENT CALENDAR 2019
Living Advent Calendars are a community project that happen at Christmas time, originating in Sweden and have now spread throughout the World . The idea is that residents from 24 homes in a street or community to decorate and illuminate a window or windows with festive decoration(s) and lights in December.