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Last login: 4 hours agoCrystaldish: David is a 57 year old married guy from Glasgow, Scotland, UK.; Likes 659 pages, 4 videos, 10 photos • 94 fans • Received 53 reviews; Member since Nov 07, 2005

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Jul 3, 1:03pm: It doesn't much matter to where the winds blow
    Or to where all the rivers might flow.
   Those birds in the sky that are flying so high
    Have clearly got somewhere to go
    But to where doesn't matter, and I shouldn't care
    So why do I still want to know?

Jul 3, 10:43am: Gota in the Faroe Islands in the North Atlantic midway between Scotland, Iceland and Norway.

Jul 3, 10:16am: guardian.co.uk/science/2008/mar/09/animalbehaviour [guardian.co.uk/science/2008/mar/09/animalbehaviour]

What is happening to the honeybees?

Honeybees produce a third of the food we eat through pollination of crops. It is not unimportant therefore that they seem to be dying out all over the earth, from the United States to Europe to China and South America and yet no one has any clear idea why.

I only recently learned the extent to which bees are transported around North America by lorry in order to pollinate crops.You may have read of the bee transporter that overturned in Canada a few days ago releasing 12 million bees. I thought bees roamed free but it seems they are slaves to the global economy being released for pollination purposes before being gathered up and driven on to the next job. What stresses this may put on bees no one knows but it is thought it may lead to them becoming undernourished and prone to disease.

Our civilization is so short sighted. We worship at the altar of big business and though we love our children and seek to protect them from all harm we seem not to care what world they will inherit.

May your child be stung by a bee, so that you may watch their tears dry in the sunshine.

Jul 3, 1:39am: eif.co.uk [eif.co.uk]

No need to feel angst in Scotland in August when the Edinburgh International Festival is on.

From the site:The Edinburgh International Festival was founded in 1947 in the aftermath of a devastating war, as an optimistic expression of what Europe could be. It owes its origins to an imperative to rebuild a sense of community in a continent which had torn itself apart; to restore hope to shattered lives through music, opera, drama, and dance.

Alongside the Festival is the 'Fringe', which mostly attracts events from the performing arts, particularly drama and (the big growth area in recent years) comedy, although dance and music also figure significantly. Theatre events can range from the classics of ancient Greece, Shakespeare and Samuel Beckett, through to new works. However, there is no selection committee to approve the entries, so any type of event is possible: the Fringe often showcases experimental works which might not be admitted to a more formal festival. edfringe.com [edfringe.com]

Jul 2, 4:38am: Arran is well known for its excellent cheeses, however if this article is anything to go by it may soon be equally famous for its production of olives.

It is hard to believe but olive aficionados tend to prefer the succulent plumpness of the Scottish olive to traditional olives found in Mediterranean lands, which often have a sparse desiccated appearance.

What a Scotsman wears under his kilt may be a closely guarded secret but you can be pretty sure his sporran will be full of genuine Scottish olives! Just ask one and watch his reaction!!

Jul 2, 1:14am: What beautiful drug is in my veins?
And flowing through my thoughts.
Driving me on to unimagined sins
Filling the world with unaccustomed light.

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http://yamon2008.stumbleupon.com/; "Thinking outside the box" I suppose

Revealed after 50 years: The secret of the greatest-ever student prank | Mail On…: Jul 2, 12:36am 26 reviews bizarre
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1030091/Revealed-50-years-The-secret-...; From page: "It was probably the most ingenious student prank of all time. In June 1958, Cambridge awoke to see a car perched at the apex of an inaccessible rooftop, looking as if it were driving across the skyline. The spectacle made headlines around the world and left police, firefighters and civil defence units battling for nearly a week to hoist the vehicle back down before giving in and taking it to pieces with blowtorches."