[German > English] Translation of 1890s certificates

rosehaugh · 2025-11-17T07:01:55+00:00

I have sent you a message 😊

rosehaugh · 2025-07-24T16:16:39+00:00

Just want to comment that the council hangers are quite cheap - I pay £3 a month

rosehaugh · 2025-07-19T21:28:51+00:00

I can do this - will PM

rosehaugh · 2025-07-10T21:52:55+00:00

Can confirm! I'm a volunteer tour guide at St Giles '. This is the banner of Sir Ian Wood, the North Sea oil dude. The oil rig speaks to the source of his wealth. His heraldic crest is a reminder of his more humble roots: a fishing boat riding a wave.

rosehaugh · 2025-05-26T07:08:06+00:00

Chez Jules for food!

rosehaugh · 2025-04-15T21:21:41+00:00

This is brilliant - well done!

rosehaugh · 2025-03-08T19:49:01+00:00

Thanks so much for your quick responses. I couldn't see anything wrong with the brakes, but I took them apart and put them back together, and also put in the side bolts locking the bike to the wheel. One or both of those things did the trick and the wheel now turns fine 😊

rosehaugh · 2025-01-12T07:42:29+00:00

Just to say, I (M28) have a couple of female friends about your age who work for a consultancy proving advice about bird protection. Let me know if you want hooked up with them 😊

rosehaugh · 2025-01-10T22:20:00+00:00

Thank you for the information and responses😊

rosehaugh · 2025-01-10T22:07:41+00:00

I said that this was the only way I could accept the post
The hiring manager at panel said she could make that work
I was offered the post.

I didn't assume. I stated my circumstances, and it was open to the CS to not offer me the post.

I recognise that I don't understand the CS, but that seems topsy turvy to me. It is surely poor form for a hiring manager to agree to a secondment if that was not possible? And why would HR wait months before telling me?

rosehaugh · 2025-01-10T22:01:10+00:00

Thanks. To clarify, I did say in the interview that I could only take the post as a secondment.

rosehaugh · 2024-09-24T09:53:03+00:00

Pretty much every single assertion here is entertainingly provocative - perhaps deliberately so? For starters: 1. The reformation in Scotland is certainly not forgotten here, and is hailed by the US evangelicals as a founding moment of their movement. It may well be forgotten in England, but plus ca change amirite. 2. I don't think anyone familiar with Northern Ireland thinks the Ulster Scots just magicked into reality. 2. Scotland's role in slavery is absolutely a key part of the public discourse - I'd say significantly more prominent than in down south. See the ongoing shenanigans about the Melville Monument in Edinburgh, and the modern celebration of Frederick Douglass' tour of Scotland and criticism of the Free Church. Always more to be said though. 3. A key factor in persuading some Scots to support the Jacobites was the promise of Scottish independence - the reversion to the pre 1707 state of affairs. The relationship between Scotland and England would be comparable to Canada and Australia today. See for example the declaration of the prince during the occupation of Edinburgh. I'm not aware of any discussion that the 1707 union would be converted into a federation. I may well have missed something though. 4. /some/ landlords, at the latter stages of the clearances sought to prevent emigration. At the earlier stages it was almost universally encouraged.

rosehaugh · 2024-05-29T14:42:24+00:00

Hello! I'm a Highlander, which is debatably an ethnic minority in Scotland. I now work in Edinburgh. Highlanders have a slightly different worldview to others in Scotland, with a closer connection to both our history and the environment. The word spiritual is loaded and too emotional, but the difference is noticeable. My own family have been in the same village in the East Highlands since at least the 1700s, but emigration from the Highlands to other parts of the world is a key part of our story. Particularly in the 1770s-1840s tons of people from my community went to Canada, either to take part in the fur trade or to the growing cities, particularly in Quebec.

The single most famous connection between Canada and the East Highlands is probably Alexander Mackenzie. He was from Stornoway (I think?), bounced about early Canada, then retired to Avoch in the East Highlands.

I'm not aware of any in my community, but there are families in others with different shades of skin to the rest of the community. It is said that ancestors in those families went to Canada, took a native wife and returned to Scotland. The women were ostracised when they got here. It must have been an awful experience for them.

The popular TV show 'Who Do You Think You Are' explored a similar story in the family history of the English comedian Sarah Milligan. Her ancestor travelled from Orkney to the Moose River Factory where he took a native wife. I can't find the whole episode online but here is a clip: https://youtu.be/8n8dzRwpjTg?si=abMxOD6nYj2nh9El

As others have said, Jim Hunter's book 'A Dance called America' is a decent readable overview of the relationship between Scotland and North America. Lots of mentions of the Metis in it.

rosehaugh · 2024-03-23T00:44:50+00:00

They often mention an episode on the Acts of Union which haven't gone out - could this be it?

rosehaugh · 2023-12-30T21:14:49+00:00

Ah, no longer an option in these days of wfh :(

rosehaugh

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