Re: Don't you just hate it...

In urp, Halla wrote in response to Jymn's reply to her previous post:
I want to write a book full of self-evident truths and
inherited knowledge (to badly rip-off a certain Mr.
Pratchett). Must be easier than actually doing research.

There seems to be quite a market for them.

Not all of them terribly well-written either. There's that
pesky ethics thing appearing again. <g>

In my case its more pride than ethics. If I'm going to be associated with
the published work, then I want the work to be the best I can do, not fit
into some pre-conceived mould of barely good enough and minimal standards.
(if that sounds bitter, it is - I've just lost a publishing contract for
being too high brow and not sexying it up enough, after working with the
previous editor to get it up to the curent standard.)

<snip>
{Stories]
This was told by my Grandfather who had it from his ... Or
this was set in Rothley, the mill was abandoned in xxxx.
Some of these are just interesting, some a jigsaw moments.

Oh yeah. I don't think all stories need to be subjected to
rigorous study at any rate, although there does seem to be a
bit of a passion for it.

Yep, analyze it to death, extract every nuance that wasn't there in the
first place.
However there is a growing passion for just performing stories. Hopefully
the latter will more than compensate.
<snip>
[Gaelic & SNP]
He's not *that* daft. ;-) I expect channels further north
and west get more Gaelic than we do down here, but there's
a fair number of Gaelic programmes on general Scottish TV
anyway. Mostly subtitled, which is nice. There wouldn't be
enough newsreaders to do the news entirely in Gaelic. :-)

Job creation to boot, careful it looks even more politically
attractive. ;~)

ISTR there being complaints from various Westerly islands
before now because there were no teachers for the schools -
all the suitable Gaels had moved to Glasgow to make TV
programmes. So, not enough newsreaders, the parly would need
to run compulsory Gaelic classes all over the place. ;-)

Job creation and education, and the true sign of independence (just ask a
Quebecois) a separate language.
Careful, you'll end up an SNP policy maker ;~)

<snip>
[Local history publications]
Writers groups are another possible source, tis likely your
library has a collection of locally published material.

Well, the dog is away next week so I should have a chance to
go and look at the library properly - quite a poor thing,
AFAIC, I'm hoping I've just not managed to look properly and
that it's a lot better than it appears.

Might be worth checking the county library and county refernce library
(whereever they may be)
Good luck.

<snip>
Battle of Britain Squadrons were rested at airfields around
the area, which had also been used as RAF training bases.
German air attacks expected little or no opposition and met
crack seasoned fighter pilots. So some World War II fighter
exploits, including a downed RAF Polish fighter being
marched off the moors at the point of pitchfork (believed to
be an enemy), a ghost plane that guided a flight back in
thick fog.

I wodner what makes that kind of ghost, and why there aren't
tales ATM of ghost cars or motorbikes or whatever. ISTR
hearing about a ghostly plane crash, WWII era again, the
plane came in low and screaming, on fire, over the head of
the observer, over a field wall, crashed, more flames etc.
Can't recall if it disappeared in front of the observer or
whether it had gone by the time they got into the field. FSR
I think that one is from Somerset sorta way, but I can't
quite recall.

I've read a few bits about ghost aircraft, but don't recall any ghost bikes
or cars (there's a few ghost trainsas well, come to think about it) Wonder
what the link is.
<snip>
[Border tales]
Yeah, you'd think they'd be too busy to have any tales at
all. ;-)

There's always somebody about in the pub to record tales -
and plenty of braggarts telling them :~)

Plus one of the hallmarks of a good pub tale is that it tends
to get trotted out every time the teller has enough drink in
him (rather inevitably tellers are hims ;-), so everyone gets
the opportunity to remember the story through repetition I
suppose. <g>

And for it to grow into something interesting :~)

<snip>
[Border real estate]
Oh I dunno, although the fashionable shops are few and far
between. I can see wealthy folks taking their early
retirements onto some hacked-up farm with a nice main
building and a small bit of land.

Noooooooooooo!
You be plantin ideas again.
;~)

Jymn


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