Aye weel lads it’s a slaigerin sort o a landscape wi hae noo.

So it’s snaw runners aff an anti skite aw terrain glaur proof tyres oan.

We’re livin in a new warld.

Translate:

slaiger: besmear with some soft, wet substance, to bedaub, as with mud, filth or the like.

Oh well lads it’s a messy soft dirty sticky wet floundering kind of a landscape we have now.

So it’s snow runners off and anti skid all terrain sticky-mud proof tyres on.

We’re living in a new world.

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

Happy Christmas.

Happy Christmas if you’re here at that time of year, if at another time then I hope you look after others as you would wish others to look after you.

Build a community you can be proud of and resist those that try to tell you the ‘other’ is to be reviled. Rather look to those pointing the finger as the most likely villain.

Northrop Frye a Canadian philosopher, literary critic and literary theorist said:
“Real unity tolerates dissent and rejoices in variety of outlook and tradition, recognizes that it is man’s destiny to unite and not divide, and understands that creating proletariats and scapegoats and second-class citizens is a mean and contemptible activity.”