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Nah, you got it wrong. It'd be more like the bracing tang of a Hebrides beach on a July morning, with the breeze off the mountains.

Gray, The Fragrance

 

Neckbone: That might be the horse chestnut. It can take on a rather distinctive odor this time of year.

Gray: Oh - I like that better! Just make it fresh and clean smelling, not that nasty spicy stuff. By The Way: I've got plans to attend a Ceilidh next week on Prince Edward Island. Should be fun.

 

1) V. impressed you could spell caley properly

2)if it is anything like a ceilidh at home then you better get a song or a story ready, because they usuallly end up with everyone having to do their party piece.

C

 

C: Thanks - I did look the spelling up just for you! Somehow, making a fool out of myself in public has never been an obstacle to having fun. I mean, I have a blog for goodness sake!

 

Yes, but with a blog you don't have to remember the words/tune/punch-line.

 

C: I have a whole host of folk songs (OK three that I will remember no matter how many beers), that my father taught us, and I can also play the guitar (badly, but this song only has 4 chords). So I hope the good Scots of Acadia are up for a rousing rendition of "The Fox and the Goose"!

 

The other two being, 'The Frog He Would A'Wooing Go'and
'Kumbaya'???
C

 

C: Nope. Good guesses though. Actually one is an old German drinking song, and the other one is an old song I learned at camp as a kid, called "Dona".