Category: Scotland

I don’t know why they don’t make this more visible…

….I mean, the Scottish Courts logo doesn’t look at all like a rude hand signal, oh no, not at all.

Of course, the logo / image used on their site is a far nicer “lion with paws full of arcane stuff”, so maybe the “bird” version is an outdated one.

I may have blogged about this before, I may not, who knows, I’m currently functioning (or not) in a sleep deprived daze.
Is it the weekend yet?
Can I go home now?

Playing catch-up

Ok, going on holiday for a month sounded like a fabulous plan, but the reality is, you get the best part of a months work backlogged for when you come back, and spend all your time trying to get that done while also keeping on top of the current stuff.

I’m aiming high – by the end of this week, the mail pile should be gone….hopefully.

In the meantime, a link to a story the lovely Hedgehog Librarian sent me while I was off bungee jumping in New Zealand…

The Digital Repository of the National Library of Scotland (which has its very own lovely blog here) has made a choice of technical partner for its ongoing project of creating a Digital Repository of many of the important documents from their massive (and always increasing!) collection.

Also, I just realised that the NLS also has a Flickr account, uploading lots of interesting photos from their photograph collections. A great way to be able to see some of the things you wouldn’t always expect a library to have. After all, libraries just hold books…don’t they? 😉

The blogging bard

It’s a busy time for Rabbie Burns. As the National Year of Homecoming is centred around the 250th anniversary of his birth, he’s got a lot of people looking closely at him and his work. So, he’s been reanimated, and popped up on Twitter, tweeting poems, line by line. After the initial news reports, NTS actually posted the essential information needed for following him on Twitter: his username – ayrshirebard. They might however want to note that Twitter updates to your phone haven’t been possible in the UK for many months.

And now, the revived poet has also taken to blogging!

Robert Burns’ Letters will be posting the letters of the bard, on the anniversary of the day they were actually written. He’s currently in full love-letter flow, writing to his ‘Clarinda’. The content of 91 letters will be being posted, concluding in 2010, when it is hoped the National Trust for Scotland will be able to open the doors of the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum. Funds are still needed for this (about £4 million), so if you can donate, please do!

Although one plea – pleeease take off the SnapShots thing on links to sites outside the blog, it’s the most annoying popup in the whole entire world…ever!

Now….time to try and find a good ceilidh in town for Burns Night….