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On my way home along Edenside, saw one of these sporting above a roadside byre. Stopped, hopeful of an early shot or two since these often seem to follow a rough patrol circle and sure enough several minutes later it returned but this time there was a small number of them dog fighting in swerving playful darts over the byre. Some slow enough to allow a burst to succeed. Hence the above.
The “Bass Rock” is an island in the outer part of the Firth of Forth in the east of Scotland. Approximately 1 mile offshore, and 3 miles north-east of North Berwick, it is a steep-sided volcanic plug 351 ft at its highest point, It plays host to 150.000 gannets, the world’s largest colony of the species.
This photo was taken from the viewing platform at the top of the 95ft high “Hopetoun Monument” which stands atop Byres Hill in East Lothian, and is approx 9.5miles away from Bass Rock…….as the crow flies. The monument is a category B listed building and it’s 132 spiral steps take you to the platform where the views are fantastic. As you can see……….
Love these century old barns, where the cows were milked below and loose piles of hay were stored in a loft (now long gone) at the top of the stairs.
Project 365-262
East façade of the Red Haubarg on the Eiderstedt peninsula near the village of Witzwort, Nordfriesland, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
Some background information:
The Red Haubarg (in German: "Roter Haubarg") is a listed historic building and former farmhouse in the municipality of Witzwort in the district of Nordfriesland. It is considered the most famous haubarg. The building is located at the northeastern end of the Eiderstedt peninsula, just about 1.5 kilometers (less than one mile) away from the North Sea.
Like all haubargs, the Red Haubarg has a rectangular floor plan. It stands on eight wooden posts, which are joined by longitudinal and transverse beams. This method of construction meant that the house was resistant to the forces of nature, especially storms and their associated surges. Even if a storm surge collapses the walls, the posts will still support the roof and the basic structure of the house remains undamaged. This design also simplified the renovation of the walls, which began to "salt out" after about 100 years and had to be replaced. The word "haubarg" means a place for piling or stacking hay. Haubargs were byre-dwellings, where the farming families and their animals lived together under one roof, but in separate rooms of course.
On the artificial dwelling mound of the Adolfskoog, which was diked between 1575 and 1579 under Duke Adolf of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf, there was a building in 1605 owned by Duchess Augusta. Like other buildings in princely ownership, this structure was not thatched with reed but covered with red tiles. However, it was probably not yet the present-day haubarg, whose early history remains largely unclear. There is no evidence for the construction date of 1647/48 mentioned in some sources. However, on a map from 1679, it is already depicted in its present form.
During renovation work between 1983 and 1986, two filled-in cellars were discovered beneath the haubarg, which are likely the remains of an older building. It is possible that the ducal manor house mentioned in 1605 was damaged by the Burchardi Flood of 1634 and replaced by the current structure afterwards.
The building is first referred to as the "Red Haubarg" in a source from 1749, which discusses the privileges granted to the farm during the diking and their applicability to its respective tenants. The tradition that the building burned down in 1759 and was replaced by the current structure does not refer to the Red Haubarg in the parish of Witzwort, but is based on a confusion with a second haubarg in the Südermarsch, which at the time also belonged to the Eiderstedt region.
Around 1800, the Red Haubarg came into the possession of the Asmussen family from Husum. In 1859, the then owners, Catharina Asmussen and her cousin August Friedrich Woldsen, established the "Asmussen-Woldsen legacy for the city of Husum", in which the income from the land belonging to the Red Haubarg was allocated for social purposes, particularly for the establishment and maintenance of a school for young children and a widow’s residence. In 1983, the Red Haubarg became the property of the "Stiftung Nordfriesland", which is based on the Asmussen-Woldsen legacy.
According to legend, a poor farmer’s hut once stood on the site where the Red Haubarg stands today. The poor farmer, who owned it, was in love with the daughter of a wealthy blacksmith. The daughter loved him in return, and the young couple had the support of her mother. However, the blacksmith refused to promise his daughter to someone who owned so little. So the poor farmer made a pact with the devil: if the devil could build him a grand house with 100 windows before the first rooster crowed, he would give up his soul in return.
The devil agreed and began constructing the haubarg at great speed. When the farmer became frightened, he fled to his beloved and her mother, who immediately sensed that something was wrong. Thinking quickly, the mother grabbed a rooster and shook it until it crowed. In this way, she managed to save the farmer’s soul just in time—the devil was in the process of installing the 99th window. Furious, the devil returned to hell, and the young couple were able to marry happily.
Today, the Red Haubarg is open to the public. It houses the agricultural section of the Eiderstedt Local History Museum as well as a restaurant. A sculpture of the devil on the grounds still commemorates the legend, and if you count the building’s windows, you will find that there are indeed exactly 99. According to the legend, all attempts to install a 100th window have failed—the panes always shattered during the following night.
Eiderstedt, where the Red Haubarg is located, is a peninsula on the North Sea coast. It is about 30 kilometers long and 15 kilometers wide and was formed around 1200 through land reclamation with dike constructions and the consolidation of two islands and a peninsula. Those were the islands of Utholm and Westerheversand as well as the Everschop-Eiderstedt penisnsula. Today, about 22,000 people live in the 24 towns and municipalities of the peninsula. Eiderstedt is particularly flat and protected against the North Sea by grass-covered dikes. These dikes are grazed by numerous flocks of sheep, just like the salt meadows on the other side of the dikes, which blend into the Wadden Sea.
Rewind four years to the spring of 2012, and this classy Alexander PS type bodied Volvo B10M descends Byres Road in Glasgow's fashionable west end on service 8.
Pressed into service today is one of the pair of loaned ERMs from Edinburgh Tours. Caught in Byres Rd with the excellent Tennents Bar in the background. Highly recommended for its range of guest ales.
...at Auchengallon, Machrie, Isle of Arran. Dated around 3800 to 2500 yrs BC.
Also known as The Druid stone at Auchencar, the stone stand proudly in a field in front of the Old Byre Visitor Centre, and is one of two – the other is lying down.
~Attire:
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~Accessories:
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South façade of the Red Haubarg on the Eiderstedt peninsula near the village of Witzwort, Nordfriesland, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
Some background information:
The Red Haubarg (in German: "Roter Haubarg") is a listed historic building and former farmhouse in the municipality of Witzwort in the district of Nordfriesland. It is considered the most famous haubarg. The building is located at the northeastern end of the Eiderstedt peninsula, just about 1.5 kilometers (less than one mile) away from the North Sea.
Like all haubargs, the Red Haubarg has a rectangular floor plan. It stands on eight wooden posts, which are joined by longitudinal and transverse beams. This method of construction meant that the house was resistant to the forces of nature, especially storms and their associated surges. Even if a storm surge collapses the walls, the posts will still support the roof and the basic structure of the house remains undamaged. This design also simplified the renovation of the walls, which began to "salt out" after about 100 years and had to be replaced. The word "haubarg" means a place for piling or stacking hay. Haubargs were byre-dwellings, where the farming families and their animals lived together under one roof, but in separate rooms of course.
On the artificial dwelling mound of the Adolfskoog, which was diked between 1575 and 1579 under Duke Adolf of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf, there was a building in 1605 owned by Duchess Augusta. Like other buildings in princely ownership, this structure was not thatched with reed but covered with red tiles. However, it was probably not yet the present-day haubarg, whose early history remains largely unclear. There is no evidence for the construction date of 1647/48 mentioned in some sources. However, on a map from 1679, it is already depicted in its present form.
During renovation work between 1983 and 1986, two filled-in cellars were discovered beneath the haubarg, which are likely the remains of an older building. It is possible that the ducal manor house mentioned in 1605 was damaged by the Burchardi Flood of 1634 and replaced by the current structure afterwards.
The building is first referred to as the "Red Haubarg" in a source from 1749, which discusses the privileges granted to the farm during the diking and their applicability to its respective tenants. The tradition that the building burned down in 1759 and was replaced by the current structure does not refer to the Red Haubarg in the parish of Witzwort, but is based on a confusion with a second haubarg in the Südermarsch, which at the time also belonged to the Eiderstedt region.
Around 1800, the Red Haubarg came into the possession of the Asmussen family from Husum. In 1859, the then owners, Catharina Asmussen and her cousin August Friedrich Woldsen, established the "Asmussen-Woldsen legacy for the city of Husum", in which the income from the land belonging to the Red Haubarg was allocated for social purposes, particularly for the establishment and maintenance of a school for young children and a widow’s residence. In 1983, the Red Haubarg became the property of the "Stiftung Nordfriesland", which is based on the Asmussen-Woldsen legacy.
According to legend, a poor farmer’s hut once stood on the site where the Red Haubarg stands today. The poor farmer, who owned it, was in love with the daughter of a wealthy blacksmith. The daughter loved him in return, and the young couple had the support of her mother. However, the blacksmith refused to promise his daughter to someone who owned so little. So the poor farmer made a pact with the devil: if the devil could build him a grand house with 100 windows before the first rooster crowed, he would give up his soul in return.
The devil agreed and began constructing the haubarg at great speed. When the farmer became frightened, he fled to his beloved and her mother, who immediately sensed that something was wrong. Thinking quickly, the mother grabbed a rooster and shook it until it crowed. In this way, she managed to save the farmer’s soul just in time—the devil was in the process of installing the 99th window. Furious, the devil returned to hell, and the young couple were able to marry happily.
Today, the Red Haubarg is open to the public. It houses the agricultural section of the Eiderstedt Local History Museum as well as a restaurant. A sculpture of the devil on the grounds still commemorates the legend, and if you count the building’s windows, you will find that there are indeed exactly 99. According to the legend, all attempts to install a 100th window have failed—the panes always shattered during the following night.
Eiderstedt, where the Red Haubarg is located, is a peninsula on the North Sea coast. It is about 30 kilometers long and 15 kilometers wide and was formed around 1200 through land reclamation with dike constructions and the consolidation of two islands and a peninsula. Those were the islands of Utholm and Westerheversand as well as the Everschop-Eiderstedt penisnsula. Today, about 22,000 people live in the 24 towns and municipalities of the peninsula. Eiderstedt is particularly flat and protected against the North Sea by grass-covered dikes. These dikes are grazed by numerous flocks of sheep, just like the salt meadows on the other side of the dikes, which blend into the Wadden Sea.
Lower Coignashie was one of several abandoned farmsteads along the eastern bank of the River Findhorn. The hill rising steeply behind it is the 2448 ft Carn Coire Easgrabath.
Everything on this croft was built of stone the wee sheds and the house and the byre built to last of course
The First Day of Spring
Aspyn in the yard, in bright evening sunshine on Tuesday, 20 March. Here, she is just taking a breather before continuing her chase of Ypache, who deftly wheeched into one of the byres/barns.
South Carrick Hills
SW Scotland
Top right is the abrupt cone of Pike o' Stickle, where greenstone was quarried by hand to make stone axes.
Nikon film camera, Nikon scanner.
Fairy Loup (Leap) is a waterfall on Byre Burn near Canonbie.
In Hugh McDiarmid's poem "The Water of Life" it appears in the lines:
"Describe the Fairy Loup, the thunder-plump,
The moss-boil on the moor, the white-topped tide;"
thunder-plump: thunder shower
moss-boil: a spring in a mossy place
Old stone byre, Isle of Mull, Scotland. The farmer makes certain that this heifer's firstborn has his fill of colostrum, while the inquisitive mother examines my camera.
Early on the first morning of the year 1880 the young lady house keeper of Belmomt Farm, near the village of Blanchland - the right most ruin in the image above - found blood on the floor of the cow byre at the left end of the house. In the loft she found the lifeless body of the infirm farmers eldest son. He had been killed by a blow from a hammer which lay close by. The local constable and doctor arrived later in the and the county authorities some days later, by which time loft had been scrubbed clean by the infirm farmer.
The house keeper was tried for and acquitted of murder.
In the 1881 census the house keeper was recorded as working in a town some 30 miles away. A younger son was working the farm and the still infirm owner had taken on another young woman as house keeper.
No one ever went to the gallows for the murder of Robert Snowball.
ExPLoReD! No 129 on 21st December 2016.
Primrose Bank is the owners home, the large Victorian house in the middle. On either side of it are two holiday cottages. We stay in the one to the right, The Old Cider Mill (hidden behind the trees). In Caynham near Ludlow in Shropshire.
Milne's Court is well-hidden gem of Edinburgh
Milne's (or Mylnes) Court was built in 1690 by Robert Milne of Balfarg, the Royal Master Mason, and the 7th member of his family to hold the title. The development had an open central court instead of narrow closes and was the first of its kind in Edinburgh.
From the Lawnmarket, Milne’s Court is well-hidden and the only clues are a small sign above the entrance to the pend, and the date 1690 carved into the stonework. However, if you stand back on the other side of the road and look up, you can take in the true size and scale of building. When it was completed, the size and regularity of Milne’s Court would have presented a startling comparison to its much smaller, higgledy-piggledy neighbours. Walking through the pend gives you a real impression of stepping back hundreds of years, emerging out into a courtyard with the seventeenth century building towering above you.
In its day the building represented the very best in lavish fashionable living. The Edinburgh Poll Tax returns for 1694 give us a snapshot of the first residents, who were mostly middle-class professionals such as Dr William Blackadder ‘Kings Physician to the forces’. Many of these new residents also appear on another document – the subscription book of the disastrous Darien Company. The Darien scheme was an unsuccessful attempt to establish a Scottish colony in Panama. A mixture of hostile local tribes, inadequate supplies and tropical diseases meant that whole plan was aborted after only eight months.
James Byres, who lived on one of the upper floors at Milne’s Court, was a leading city merchant, and was chosen in 1699 to be one of the ‘men of special trust’ to be in charge of the second expedition. He arrived to find the colony abandoned, and after two months escaped to Jamaica leaving many colonists behind. The Darien Company Directors found him guilty of “several unwarrantable, arbitrary, illegal and inhumane practices”, but he continued to trade and he died at sea in 1706.
Like many Old Town houses, by the 19th century Milne’s Court had lost its middle-class residents, and living conditions for residents were appalling. A visitor in 1856, complained that the close was: “…unapproachable by any one who is not compelled by necessity to go into them.” The Census in 1871 described: “A densely populated square…irregularly numbered, very dirty, and anything but a free current of air…In one house of three rooms, on Sunday night there slept fourteen souls of different sexes and no family connections.”
Finally in 1960 the city engineer declared the north part of the building unsafe, and gave a deadline of 21 days before demolition would start. Edinburgh University had expressed an interest, but now the pressure was on, and plans to stabilise the building were drawn up and passed by the council’s planning committee in only 10 days. With the help of donations from Harold Salvesen and Philip Henman, Milne’s Court was restored as student accommodation and opened in 1969.
Today Milne’s Court is a desirable place to live again, helping to keep the Old Town alive, and yet a stone’s throw away from the throng of tourists on the Royal Mile.
Text from
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[Lord of The Dusk]
Jaspyr, returned at midnight on Tuesday, having been wandering the Southern Uplands since Thursday, last week.
He came in, shouting for food and attention, ate as if it was going out of fashion then slept for two days. He finally surfaced, this afternoon, on the roof of the old stone byre.
He seems very happy to be home and has absolutely no idea that I've been wringing out my heart...
SW Scotland
Give to me the life I love
Let the lave go by me.
Give the jolly heaven above
And the byway nigh me.
Bed in the bush with stars to see
Bread I dip in the river.
There's the life for a man like me
There's the life forever.
R L Stevenson - "The Vagabond"
Pennies from heaven
Don't make me laugh
Here all you'll get
Is the pattering rain
Or yon two crows up over the hill
Looking for winterkill
Always at your boots
The mud behind the byre
With its clammy hold
Would mock you up a grave
Here in the mire of a wrecked sheepfold
And all you'll bring to this
Is muscle and grit
Persistence, that's just about it
What made you think
There'd be a living in sheep?
Eat, work, eat, work and sleep
Duck under the eaves
Of the bothy
To sit here, caged by rain
Somewhere to go conjure
A next move
When I have to think again
The dog lifts his gaze to plead
Believes the wizard has a magic stick
Leans his weight into my tweed
I give an unholy hand to lick
I take a swig of sheep dip
From my flask
And once again I ask
What made you think
There'd be a living in sheep?
Eat, work, eat, work and sleep
They were at this game
Two hundred years ago
Had thirty ways
Of dying young, poor souls
Laid to rest in their soggy rows
Rain on their holy books
Blood and whisky
On the tongue
And no-one watching over anyone
No-one left but your stubborn one
And the crows and rooks
Ah, the dying young
Well I'm not done
You watch me and I'll watch thee
I can still work for two men
And drink for three
And I raise my flask
To the clearing skies
To you, sweepers
You carrion spies
To scavenge and survive
If you can do it so can I
Mark Knopfler
A trip up to Byreburn woods on the fungi trail, not much about as it has been too dry of late. However I did spot a few of these about , quite near to beech trees but not 100%sure of their ID ...
Possibly "Porcelain fung"i (Oudemansiella mucida) , they were so shiny and gloss like on the surface.
The shop is situated in a very busy street in Edinburgh and for tourists who have been to Edinburgh they would probably know where Byres Close is. Having said that, I have no idea of how business is like, nor do I understand the rationale of the window display. But for viewers who care to take a closer look, I endeavour to say, the slanting column inside and slanting shades and straight lines outside help the composition.
2720 pcs
“Unite the Crystals of Power in an epic final showdown at the Sorcerer’s Cathedral!”
—Bring statue guardians to life by pressing levers on both sides to spring them from the facade
—Drop chandeliers on intruders in the nave, or launch them with a surprise earthquake
—Turn the central plinth to access all the Sea, Mage, Wisdom and Air Crystals
—Also features hidden treasure, ringing bells, a secret potion room, and a rock dropper
—Gold dragon Byre features 19 points of articulation
—Cathedral measures over 17” (43cm) long, with a spire nearly 17” (43cm) tall
—Includes 6 minifigures: Vultog the berserker, Orian the dragon rider, Althior the wizard, Moscha the necormancer, Kunaye the mage, and Zagro the alchemist
See more images on my website. Instructions coming soon to Build Better Bricks.
This beautifully conserved dwelling and byre in Glen Lochay, near Killin, offers a unique insight into rural life in 19th-century and early 20th century Scotland. There are 5 jointed and pegged cruck couples, two of which can be viewed easily in the byre end of the house. The roof was originally thatched but this was raked back in the 1940s and covered with corrugated tin.
I spotted this old bus coming down Byres Road in Glasgow.
Memories of jumping off the moving bus with cuts and bruises after misjudging the speed - OUCH!!
Abandoned in 1931, these ruins are accessible only after a 90 minute walk from the nearest public road. The nearby bothy used to be the byre (cattle shed) and was used as a set in the 2013 film "Under the Skin" starring Scarlett Johansson.
On my way home along Edenside, saw one of these sporting above a roadside byre. Stopped, hopeful of an early shot or two since these often seem to follow a rough patrol circle and sure enough several minutes later it returned but this time there was a small number of them dog fighting in swerving playful darts over the byre. Some slow enough to allow a burst to succeed. Hence the above.
I had to do a bit of clambering down to get this shot, the stonework to the left has decayed a lot since my last visit 3 years ago.
Distressed that the crofting way of life was disappearing some ex-pat Shetlanders set about preserving some tangible trace of what they had left behind. I'll leave aside the obvious questions about where they went and how they lived…This little croft was occupied up until the 1960s. I don't find it so remarkable. My grandparents lived in a cobbled together mud cottage without electricity or running water until 1969. How things have changed.
The exterior walls are low but there's more headroom inside. Those proportions probably worked more efficiently against Shetland's weather. The roof is clad externally with oat straw, weighed down with netting tied into stones. I never established if there was turf or heather beneath the oats.
Habitable space inside was confined to two rooms at this end. In the middle was a kind of work/storeroom and at the other end was an animal byre. That conical stone structure would have traditionally been a kiln to dry grain. It's all very compact and practical. In the absence of modern convenience, this would do nicely.