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Search Results for: aix - 2 Scottish word posts.

Two dolly girl wood choppers with axe and two mischief makers with a giant magnet about to be at the mercy of a flying magnetized axe.

Scottish Word: Aix.

Tags: axe, cutting, Death, fence, girls, logs, magnet, teenager

Two dolly girl wood choppers with axe and two mischief makers with a giant magnet about to be at the mercy of a flying magnetized axe.

“Help the aix is fleein oot o ma hauns.” Translate: aix: axe. “Help the axe is flying out of my hands.” The Scottish Word: aix with its definition and its meaning illustrated and captioned with the … Continue reading Aix. →

axe, cutting, Death, fence, girls, logs, magnet, teenager
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In a now ancient old forest far in the future, some talking trees are in conversation with an evolved boar.

Scottish Word: Rob Sorby.

Tags: eyes, moonlight, pig, snow, trees, wilderness

In a now ancient old forest far in the future, some talking trees are in conversation with an evolved boar.

Wee cawed them the Rob Sorby’s cos they yuised shairp impliments like saws, n chissels, n aixes o steel what made them tae be feared. Hail wids o oor kin, the size o a shire, wid … Continue reading Rob Sorby. →

eyes, moonlight, pig, snow, trees, wilderness
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Girl with a handful of botanical posters of clover, devils bit scabious, and narrow leaved plantain yelling at her brother who is lying in the grass among daisies and buttercups admiring the seed heads of rib-wort plantain (scabiosa lanceolata). All on a sunny day.
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Two women in protective head scarfs and greatcoats with a gas powered heater emitting steam strapped to their backs stroll in front of two brutalist style apartment blocks where a couple with a fire burning in the hallway peer out. Meanwhile ash and dust fall like snow from a blackened sky.
Fliskie.
A dolphin on the surface of a calm sea and has red a contraption fitted to its back with wires running from a steering wheel to suckers attached to its flippers. Sitting in the open cockpit of the contraption sits a man with goggles and a snorkel listening to a mermaid that only has her head above the translucent waters.
Piece-time.
A male and female dwarf with red pointy hats, blue aprons and gardening implements are harvesting large red berries from a large leafy fruitful plant that is watching them from eyes in its root below ground. The view below ground shows the large gnarled root clutching the bones of previous burials in amongst the earth and stones.
Vivre.

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