Aaargh! It’s a miss! Blooter McNochty’s heiched the ba! The goalie dived low but the ba’s oot the park!

Ah nivir thocht I’d live tae see Blooter McNochty miss a penalty. He’s a boy that nivir misses.

He’s the star that cuid hae got us tae the final in the World Cup! Noo we’re oot!

But the Tartan armies’ cheerin ye can hear them cheerin! Whit’s a dae!?

Translate:

Heiched: lofted, thrown or kicked with a high trajectory.

Aaargh! It’s a miss! Blooter McNochty’s lofted the ball! The goalkeeper dived low but the ball’s out of sight!

Ah never thought I’d live to see Blooter McNochty miss a penalty. He’s a boy that never misses.

He’s the star that could have got us to the final in the World Cup! But now we’re out!

But the Scottish fans are cheering you can hear them cheering! What’s happened!?

hixd
The Scottish Word: heiched with its definition and its meaning illustrated and captioned with the word used in context in the Scots language and in English.

Inktober #15 Hooray.

America’s Election Results.

I’d drafted this Inktober entry on the 15th but never got round to finishing it until November. Providentially it was completed just as the election results were coming in from the United States and so I posted it on social media there.

Greed, selfishness, hatred, fear and division are the last things the human race needs as we face the developing challenges of a world changing in ways that it never has in the lifetime of our species.