The start of this month marks Lughnasadh / Lammas. Lughnasadh or Lughnasa is a Gaelic festival marking the beginning of the harvest season.
Historically, it was widely observed throughout Ireland, Scotland and the Isle of Man. In Modern Irish it is called Lúnasa, in Scottish Gaelic, Lùnastal, and in Manx, Luanistyn. Traditionally it is held on 1 August, or about halfway between the summer solstice and autumn equinox. In recent centuries some of the celebrations have been shifted to the Sunday nearest this date.
Lughnasadh is one of the four Gaelic seasonal festivals, along with Samhain, Imbolc and Beltane. It corresponds to other European harvest festivals such as the Welsh Gŵyl Awst and the English Lammas.
Lughnasadh is mentioned in some of the earliest Irish literature and has pagan origins. The festival itself is named after the god Lugh.
Historically, it was widely observed throughout Ireland, Scotland and the Isle of Man. In Modern Irish it is called Lúnasa, in Scottish Gaelic, Lùnastal, and in Manx, Luanistyn. Traditionally it is held on 1 August, or about halfway between the summer solstice and autumn equinox. In recent centuries some of the celebrations have been shifted to the Sunday nearest this date.
Lughnasadh is one of the four Gaelic seasonal festivals, along with Samhain, Imbolc and Beltane. It corresponds to other European harvest festivals such as the Welsh Gŵyl Awst and the English Lammas.
Lughnasadh is mentioned in some of the earliest Irish literature and has pagan origins. The festival itself is named after the god Lugh.
While the rest of us are having to deal with the ridiculous quarantine requirements, such as having to self-isolate for ten days when returning from abroad, which is enforced by daily calls and police checks (if you can even get in and out of the country in a legal way, that is), if you are an illegal immigrant who has jumped on a dinghy across the Channel you'll be put up in a rather nice taxpayer-funded hotel and you don't have to bother with all that.
Up to 10,000 illegal immigrants are enjoying taxpayer-funded hotels and it appears they can wander off for a bit of shopping, sightseeing, a pint in the pub or whatever they fancy, while the indigenous population who entered legally have to remain at home or in a hotel that they have to fork out for.
The number of illegal immigrants testing positive for Covid on arrival ranges from 1% and 5%, which is 20 times higher than the UK average.
Yet another Government immigration fiasco.
Up to 10,000 illegal immigrants are enjoying taxpayer-funded hotels and it appears they can wander off for a bit of shopping, sightseeing, a pint in the pub or whatever they fancy, while the indigenous population who entered legally have to remain at home or in a hotel that they have to fork out for.
The number of illegal immigrants testing positive for Covid on arrival ranges from 1% and 5%, which is 20 times higher than the UK average.
Yet another Government immigration fiasco.
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Activists were busy leafletting in Wiltshire yesterday. The squirrel leaflets are proving very popular. Well done those involved.
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On this day in 1881 Sir Alexander Fleming was born in Darvel, Ayrshire. Fleming was renowned for discovering penicillin, a discovery that has saved and still saves millions of lives worldwide and won him a Nobel Prize.
Alexander Fleming (1881-1955) was a Scottish physician and microbiologist, best known for discovering the world's first broadly effective antibiotic substance, which he named penicillin. His discovery in 1928 of what was later named benzylpenicillin (or penicillin G) from the mould Penicillium rubens is described as the "single greatest victory ever achieved over disease." For this discovery, he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Howard Florey and Ernst Boris Chain.
He also discovered the enzyme lysozyme from his nasal discharge in 1922, and along with it a bacterium he named Micrococcus Lysodeikticus, later renamed Micrococcus luteus.
Fleming was knighted for his scientific achievements in 1944
Another example of how Scotland has led the way in many advances .
Alexander Fleming (1881-1955) was a Scottish physician and microbiologist, best known for discovering the world's first broadly effective antibiotic substance, which he named penicillin. His discovery in 1928 of what was later named benzylpenicillin (or penicillin G) from the mould Penicillium rubens is described as the "single greatest victory ever achieved over disease." For this discovery, he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Howard Florey and Ernst Boris Chain.
He also discovered the enzyme lysozyme from his nasal discharge in 1922, and along with it a bacterium he named Micrococcus Lysodeikticus, later renamed Micrococcus luteus.
Fleming was knighted for his scientific achievements in 1944
Another example of how Scotland has led the way in many advances .
It appears that the SNP intend to keep the Scottish population muzzled for at least the rest of the year. The suggestion seems to be that the mask mandate in Scotland will last into 2022.
The rules, as with much of what the SNP government do, are quite ridiculous. In a nightclub you can apparently dance with your face within inches of someone else (or, if you're lucky, maybe even closer), but the minute that you leave the dance floor to head to the bar or go to the toilet you must put your mask back on. This all seems rather silly and it will be interesting to see how it can even be policed.
The rules, as with much of what the SNP government do, are quite ridiculous. In a nightclub you can apparently dance with your face within inches of someone else (or, if you're lucky, maybe even closer), but the minute that you leave the dance floor to head to the bar or go to the toilet you must put your mask back on. This all seems rather silly and it will be interesting to see how it can even be policed.
As Glasgow city council, an SNP-run council, lets the city slowly decline, another one of the city's political elite walks off with a large payoff and straight into a well paid job with the IT company behind a controversial contract with the council.
The city is looking at failing services, job cuts, increasing deprivation, increasing inequality especially in life expectancy, historic buildings that they are supposed to be caring for left to moulder and fall apart. But it appears that rather than wanting to deal with any of that, the elite are more interested in carrying on paying themselves large salaries and payoffs and walking into jobs with companies they have previously awarded contracts to.
The city is looking at failing services, job cuts, increasing deprivation, increasing inequality especially in life expectancy, historic buildings that they are supposed to be caring for left to moulder and fall apart. But it appears that rather than wanting to deal with any of that, the elite are more interested in carrying on paying themselves large salaries and payoffs and walking into jobs with companies they have previously awarded contracts to.
On this day in 1548, Mary Queen of Scots, who was five years old at the time, was taken to live in France. A French naval vessel came for her at Dumbarton Castle and a week later she landed in France. She had been promised in marriage to the Dauphin Francis .
The agreement to marry him had been agreed a month earlier by the Scottish Parliament at Haddington under the Treaty of Haddington. While she was in France, regents ruled in her place.
She lived in France for 13 years, eventually marrying the Dauphin on the 24th April 1558. Twenty days earlier she had signed a secret agreement that, if she died without issue, Scotland and her claim to the English crown were bequeathed to France.
The agreement to marry him had been agreed a month earlier by the Scottish Parliament at Haddington under the Treaty of Haddington. While she was in France, regents ruled in her place.
She lived in France for 13 years, eventually marrying the Dauphin on the 24th April 1558. Twenty days earlier she had signed a secret agreement that, if she died without issue, Scotland and her claim to the English crown were bequeathed to France.
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Today PA Yorkshire, ex-members of the BNP and other activists protested at Mill Green View Britannia Hotel in East Leeds. The hotel is housing migrants and has been booked up fully for this use until 2030! Our protest received a positive response from the public who cheered and beeped as they walked and drove by! Thank you to everybody who attended.
The SNP government's overseeing of the Scottish economy is just a series of disasters followed by calamity.
It appears that the Scottish Government takeover of Prestwick Airport is another such calamity. They bought the airport for £1 from an investor who, it was fair to say, was overjoyed to get rid of it. Since then they have poured nearly £45 million into it, for no return.
Ironically, given Sturgeon and her gang's hatred of Trump, 'The Donald' was arguably partly responsible for the losses not being any worse. Under his tenure at the White House the US military paid Prestwick more than £27 million for fuel for planes coming mainly from Afghanistan. That source is now drying up with the US withdrawal. So the financial situation is only going to get worse for Prestwick and the Scottish government.
Given that they have wasted millions on other things such as the ferry fiasco, can we really trust these people to run our economy?
It appears that the Scottish Government takeover of Prestwick Airport is another such calamity. They bought the airport for £1 from an investor who, it was fair to say, was overjoyed to get rid of it. Since then they have poured nearly £45 million into it, for no return.
Ironically, given Sturgeon and her gang's hatred of Trump, 'The Donald' was arguably partly responsible for the losses not being any worse. Under his tenure at the White House the US military paid Prestwick more than £27 million for fuel for planes coming mainly from Afghanistan. That source is now drying up with the US withdrawal. So the financial situation is only going to get worse for Prestwick and the Scottish government.
Given that they have wasted millions on other things such as the ferry fiasco, can we really trust these people to run our economy?
How long until we see this dangerous nonsense in Scotland? Given the Scottish political elite's pandering to the transgender rights lobby, not long I would imagine.
NHS Trusts in England are telling hospitals to admit patients to wards on their self-declared gender, not their biological sex.
This includes men previously convicted of sex crimes being admitted to female wards after claiming to be female. We have already seen cases of rape and sexual assault in prisons and psychiatry wards by self-declared men. It appears the woke lobby care no more for women's rights than they do for men's, that they have been constantly attacking for decades.
NHS Trusts in England are telling hospitals to admit patients to wards on their self-declared gender, not their biological sex.
This includes men previously convicted of sex crimes being admitted to female wards after claiming to be female. We have already seen cases of rape and sexual assault in prisons and psychiatry wards by self-declared men. It appears the woke lobby care no more for women's rights than they do for men's, that they have been constantly attacking for decades.
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This morning, PA Fitness Yorkshire ran through circuits and came away a little faster, stronger and fitter than before.
Have you improved yourself today?
Have you improved yourself today?
On this day in 1296 during the First Scottish War of Independence, King Edward I of England took the Stone of Destiny, also know as the Stone of Scone, as spoils of war and removed it to Westminster Abbey, where it was fitted into a wooden chair - known as King Edward's Chair - on which most subsequent English and then British sovereigns have been crowned. Edward I sought to claim the status of the "Lord Paramount" of Scotland, with the right to oversee its King.
Some doubt exists over the stone captured by Edward I. The Westminster Stone theory posits that the monks at Scone Palace hid the real stone in the River Tay, or buried it on Dunsinane Hill, and that the English troops were tricked into taking a substitute. Some proponents of this theory claim that historic descriptions of the stone do not match the present stone.
Some doubt exists over the stone captured by Edward I. The Westminster Stone theory posits that the monks at Scone Palace hid the real stone in the River Tay, or buried it on Dunsinane Hill, and that the English troops were tricked into taking a substitute. Some proponents of this theory claim that historic descriptions of the stone do not match the present stone.
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A Scottish patriot enjoys a brew while out doing activism for Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2021!
https://www.patrioticalternative.org.uk/indigenous_peoples_day_2021
https://www.patrioticalternative.org.uk/indigenous_peoples_day_2021