I thought we were talking about potatoes? And origins/history of cooking? Only rant I perceived was somehow a plea for narrow consistency to spare minds from muddles. It seems to me, that anything Orcadian had to have come from some place else, from migrators who brought things from elsewhere with them. So, in order to talk about Orcadian customs, those elsewheres have to be brought up. And the moon's an interesting topic, too. What d'ya think all those stone circles on the Orkneys are for? Isn't it odd that civilization begins with all these diverse human cultures moving huge stones around in order to track the stars and establish calendars, and today's average ordinary folk don't even have half a grasp of equinoxes and solstices and such? Most people don't even know how to build a fire (let alone make fire), and yet we consider ourselves (or certain designated representatives with degrees in engineering and physics) masters of nuclear energy. Lisbeth Jardine ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lisa Conrad" <nisus00@earthlink.net> To: <ORCADIA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2004 10:35 AM Subject: Re: [<orcadia>] Old Farm House, Grimbister, and Snapping overGinger > Stephen -- can I remind you of your words nearly a year ago, when Sigurd > encouraged us, over and over, to please stick to ORKNEY topics. Which you > can't seem to do. > > Here was [in part] your reply to Sigurd's plea, sent to the List: > > "on 12/9/03 6:30 AM, stephen davie wrote -- [...] Now then Sig, [...] I > looked up your website and reviewed the instructions, and I can truly > appreciate the frustrations you go through to preserve quality. Someone > who > doesn't like a message will always shoot the messenger, and that would be > you I am sure... [...] The "chatting" can be done one to one without > irritating others. I figured that out too late it seems... [...] We all > get > too soon old and too late smart." > > > > > I myself have no desire to hear of your clueless, rude, misinformed and > misplaced political rantings on this ORCADIA-List. > Keep your Bush and Blair bashing to your own miserable self. > If you don't wish to inform yourself of, or face, the realities and > consequences of the terrorism all of this world faces, and do something > constructive about it, keep your political comments to yourself, or share > them with others of your ilk. > Don't tell the Orcadia-List. > > > My apologies to the rest of you for my directness. > > > Lisa > > > > ==== ORCADIA Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from the Orcadia mailing list, send an e-mail with the word > 'unsubscribe' in the message body to orcadia-l-request@rootsweb.com > >

Orkney does that to you. You think you're going over there just to see some burial spot or other. You step on the islands and suddenly to whole world opens up to you from that very ancient place. Even talking about Orkney will take from potatoes to old civilizations to the moon and standing stones to beer. It's the magic of Orkney that opens you and can make you feel muddled. Kathy --- Lisbeth Jardine <lisjardine@msn.com> wrote: > I thought we were talking about potatoes? __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail