These are lovely! - the gannet has such a wonderful expression. *also loves gannets* They also get called solent geese, which makes sense. And there's ganders, of course, who have the "gan"....
(Btw, in Scottish Gaelic goose is gèadh, geòidh in the plural. Just to confuse the issue.)
Well, it's pretty cool. Instead of cutting out pieces and sewing them together like a normal quilt, you have your design traced onto a foundation piece of fabric, and you sew other fabrics to it, following the pattern. Like, see all those tiny pieces, triangles and weird shapes? Like the gannet's beak? It would be a CAUCHEMAR to try to cut all those pieces to the exact dimensions, and fiddle with them to make them all fit, etc., but it's much much easier to sew them onto a foundation that's already planned out
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You know, I think gèadh and geòidh were what I was thinking of, unless I picked up geann from something Irish. I know there's a song about eating geese at a big feast, geòidh ann, and maybe I mentally transcribed it to geann for the phonetics, but I can't remember if it's Irish or Scottish. I don't speak Irish, and only a TINY bit of Scots Gaelic. Do you
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Ha, I speak a *very* little Scots Gaelic, which I'm trying to expand (and actually drill some grammatical rules and so on into my head). Mostly I have folk-song Gaelic, and medieval-poetry Gaelic. Which is, um, limited in usefulness, but *is* how I knew about the geese.
I don't know if solent originally meant channel *curious* - I'll have to go & look it up. I only know it as THE Solent (very AoS-topical, of course, down there in Portsmouth).
I can't imagine why anyone would call gannets "gentlemen". Maybe it's a touch of sarcasm? *loves on them anyway*
Your Bass Rock? What did you do there? *curious* Raven did her PhD on the seals on the Isle of May, and did a lot of fieldwork there, so nearby.
Yeah, same with me, though I don't speak any medieval poetry Gaelic. I do have a book and tape set of "Teach yourself Gaelic," but I haven't done it very much. I know how to say "How are you? Pretty well, thanks. Where are you from? I'm from the Isle of Skye!" which isn't very helpful because I'm NOT from the Isle of Skye. And I know some words from place names
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And thank you! I'm glad you like them. I'm glad you like gannets too. How have you come to love gannets? Do you see them much in your part of the world?
(Btw, in Scottish Gaelic goose is gèadh, geòidh in the plural. Just to confuse the issue.)
*isn't Stephen but attempts to be useful*
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I don't know if solent originally meant channel *curious* - I'll have to go & look it up. I only know it as THE Solent (very AoS-topical, of course, down there in Portsmouth).
I can't imagine why anyone would call gannets "gentlemen". Maybe it's a touch of sarcasm? *loves on them anyway*
Your Bass Rock? What did you do there? *curious* Raven did her PhD on the seals on the Isle of May, and did a lot of fieldwork there, so nearby.
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Maybe it's the opposite of insolent.
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