poetry – Ella MacDonald

The “Daft-Days” of Hogmanay

Posted on December 31, 2018 by Ella R S MacDonald

Sixty years ago in 1958, Christmas Day became a public holiday in Scotland for the first time. Until the 16th century, when religious reformers banned it, Christmas was celebrated as enthusiastically in Scotland as elsewhere in Europe. But the Protestant Reformation changed all that. In 1581 new legislation outlawed carol singing and other Yule-tide customs…

The “learning how to schedule a post” post

Posted on November 12, 2018December 31, 2018 by Ella R S MacDonald

As a new blogger, I thought I was getting the hang of things by drafting a post about Hallowe’en in advance of the day and scheduling it to post on October 31. But my post didn’t appear on the appointed day so clearly I haven’t learned that lesson yet. It seems I got the scheduling…

Yellow
October 27, 2019
In response to Debbie’s One Word Sunday. This is one of several streets in the Spanish city of Seville with brightly-painted yellow and white [more]
Round
October 20, 2019
In response to Debbie’s One Word Sunday. The theme for this week’s challenge is ’round’. This is is the interior of [more]
Dilapidated
October 6, 2019
In response to Debbie’s One Word Sunday. Overlooking the harbour at Elgol on the Isle of Skye. [more]
Volume
September 15, 2019
In response to Debbie’s One Word Sunday. The theme of this week’s challenge made me think of this huge sculpture, made up of 100,000 [more]
Monumental
September 8, 2019
In response to Debbie’s One Word Sunday The Calanais stones, Isle of Lewis [more]
Triangles
September 1, 2019
In response to Debbie’s One Word Sunday The British Museum, London The glass roof of the museum’s atrium is made up of hundreds of [more]

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