Calling all masons! This month’s lodge meeting will be held on Thursday the 9th of January at seven o’clock. Lodge Canongate Kilwinning, still active, boasts quite the history, being the oldest purpose-built masonic room in constant use in the entire world. Excerpt taken from: Caledonian Mercury, 4 Jan. 1800. British Library Newspapers, accessed via National …
Day: 12 November 2024
Hardware and Optical Warehouse
Tortoise Shell Spectacles! Ramsden’s Telescopes! Thermometers! Mathematical Instruments! And, err, an oil painting of the last interview of LEWIS XVI, with his family? Excerpt taken from: Caledonian Mercury, 4 Jan. 1800. British Library Newspapers, accessed via National Library of Scotland membership.
Writing English Prose
Record Card How to Write English Prose, by David Bentley Hart, The Lamp. On the use of language in twenty-first century writing. Notes I enjoyed this article when I first read it, and have been reminded of it again recently on a number of occasions, particularly given recent developments in relation to ChatGPT and other …
The Farmers Magazine
The Publisher of THE FARMERS MAGAZINE (Price 1s. 9d.) is “extremely sorry that he has been necessarily obliged to postpone the publication” of the magazine from 6th January to 20th January. The circumstances causing the delay were “out of his power to prevent”, and he promises to endeavour to “study to merit a continuance of …
Coastal Storm Photography
Record Card From Loki to Behemoth: waves of the English coastline – in pictures, Rachael Talibart, The Guardian. Samples of Talibart’s photography, capturing “the ebb and flow of the English coastline through photographs that frame erupting waves and the days surrounding violent storms.” Notes This includes brief explanations for the names chosen for each photograph, …
St Ube’s Salt
For those interested in curing fish, there is good news! A LARGE QUANTITY of St UBE’S SALT has arrived on Christian the Seventh and is now available to view on board said ship. Samples can also be viewed at Mr T Muldrup’s down at the Shore of Leith, or at Messrs John and John Learmonth …