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MUNGUIN'S NEW REPUBLIC 
Picture 1—How our air is being poi soned by very powerfull people.
Kem trails ALL over the world.
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Well, that’s narrowed it down… It’s in the world! 🙂
But yes, you are right.
That’s how it is.
Enjoy the next 50 years. They will be our last.
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Sorry tris, no idea. But your last paragraph is spot on.
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I’m guessing Ettrick. Because of James Hogg the Ettrick Shepherd.
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Sorry not Ettrick.
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You had a lovely day for your jaunt, PP. Beautiful countryside and yet not so far from much bigger places 😀
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I said that Andimac will know. Unlike Munguin I held no thoughts of winning. I assume you’ve been then?
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No, never been there, PP – it’s on the list and I’ve been very close to it but just haven’t got there yet. Your post might just spur me on.
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I do recommend it, though you’ll need more than one visit to fully capture it I think. Still it’s handy for us, nearby big places!
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If it is the same place I went to -A bit of Rural Life – is a clue.
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Tris will confirm I said “Andimac and Marcia will know!” Andimac lives in the West so he’s not surprising but you’re knowledge of these parts for a Dundonian is impressive. Unless, you originally hail from the West?
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I will indeed.
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The benefit of old age is that you have visited many places over the decades.
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It looks amazing. Gorgeous countryside and the residents, 😍
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It was a lovely day, sunny but a bit windy. I’ve taken more pictures of inside for AOY I need to send Tris but felt it would give it away too much if here. But the crack team of Andimac and Marcia cracked it right away. As I knew they would. I’ll reveal later to give others a chance to guess.
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I’m pretty sure it’s not Mombasa, so that narrows it down!
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Indeed it isn’t. And I’ll give you a clue – it’s in the West of Scotland.
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aye, nae sign o the tusks.
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Lots of animals but alas no elephants.
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No idea, but No 5 looks like every living room I was ever in in the 1950’s. Mantle clock with accompanying brass candlesticks, big armchairs with antimacassars. There’s a word I’ve not heard for a long time!
Is there a museum of rural life there, maybe?
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I’m afraid to say… You’ve cracked it. It is indeed the Museum of Rural Life in East Kilbride, just outside Glasgow.
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i saw all those cows in the pics and even over the mantelpiece. “This is a country place” I thought. I am not a country person!
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🙂 we can’t all be country lads and lasses.
Is there any reason you’re not a country person?
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Have no real acquaintance with country traditions. In my experience, when you’re out on country walks, fields go on forever, never ending, and always look the same! It takes so long to walk to the end of one and then the next one starts. One coo looks like another and so do hens!
Accounting for my ignorance of country folks and country ways – I was born in London and have lived all my life in towns and cities. I come from generations of people who did not work the land. Only country link seems to be a farmer’s daughter who married a paternal great grand father , a doctor, (maybe the equivalent of a GP in those days?)
Have seen a pic of her with her son, also a doctor. Even aged about 40+, as she must have been at the time of the photo, she was a tall, slender, stunning brunette. No wonder the doc fell for her! I do not take after her , though my cousin does!
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I’m a city born person but I love the country for the change if nothing else. Plus this “country” place is actually right beside a built up area. We need green spaces imho.
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Fair explanation.
I guess the countryside isn;t for everyone, and neither is the town.
I’m kinda the opposite.
I’ve often lived where I could see hills or fields or woods from my window.
If I could afford to, I’d live miles from other people in a remote cottage somewhere surrounded by nature,
I really dislike living in the town,
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No 5, is that Burns’s cottage, the pic above the mantlepiece, reminds me of one of his poems.
Too a Coo,
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Sorry Alex but it’s actually the Farmhouse in the Estate where the Museum of Rural Life is in East Kilbride.
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The Museum is just across the road from Centre 1 and yet completely rural in feel. There is an inside museum with auld farm machinery (pics to follow Tris), a working (probably illustrative) farm hence all the animals above and a farmhouse. You can ride in a old tractor driven, very shoogly, jalopy from the museum building to the farm area. There were more pictures of the house but I should have realised Tris would pick mostly the animal ones – a kind of Soppy Wednesday.
You can also go into the old farmhouse and its garden. It has a Willow Trail of animals made out of – guess what! No 2 picture is a POW room. The farm had German POWs even after the war ended. I have to say German POWs never seemed in much hurry to return home and it was very rare for them to try to escape. Whereas the Nazis had to open Colditz especially for the repeat escapers! Well worth a visit in you are in the area. £10 for adults, free for members of National Museums or National Trust for Scotland. Maybe Bongo will go? I think gorillas go free 🙂
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Well done, JH.
And well done to PP for taking the pics.
Sorry one of them was repeated. My bad.
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Yip, another place for the must visit list.
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I think that’s the value of the “where’s” series. You think, “I must go there” especially if it’s nearby (relatively). It’s been decades since I’ve been to Wemyss Bay and once the schools go back I must return. After all Munguin has approved it!
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Yes. If Munguin likes it, it must be good.
🙂
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I’m going to be like the ball in the pinball machine when I travel south, visiting here then there.
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LOL. It’s all Munguin’s fault. 🙂
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Suggestion for another rural experience: Auchendrain highland township, Argyll.
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Not heard of that. I looked online and it said to check facebook page before visit. And of course, you can’t do that without logging in, which for folk like me with no FB account nor wish for one is impossible. Missing a trick there.
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Oh, that’s weird.
I think organisations sometimes forget that not everyone has access to the internet.
I have two neighbours who are not connected. One because he wouldn’t understand it and the other because he doesn’t want to be.
More and more though people are going to have to be online, and able to access information.
The times, they are achanging!
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https://www.visitscotland.com/info/see-do/auchindrain-historic-township-p251491
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I was living and working in Argyll when Auchendrain was being set up. I would say to anyone that Argyll is a must visit area. So much truly ancient history on view, artifacts lying about that are older than the pyramids.
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Noted. 🙂
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