Neil
Jag har verkligen njutit av att läsa Frukt Och Bär A-ö - jag refererar den faktiskt fortfarande.
Jag tycker om Paul på TV (TV-kanalen godare).
Jag funderade på att köpa SåsAtlas, men hittade den på det lokala biblioteket. Att plocka en sås per land verkar vara en utmaning eller galenskap eller bara en idé - inte fullt utformad och löst.
Efter att ha besökt och ätit i många av länderna - så många missade tillfällen och som ett resultat gör det att projektet känns endimensionellt.
Jag kommer inte att köpa boken.
Total summer pulp!
A real flashback to childhood and reading Commando comic books.
- these were hardy people.
Strangely more interesting after having researched my family and the historical Strathnairn ancestry.
The Frasers and the greater, more general strong historical connections between the Highlands and France.
This is research about a particular branch of the McGilvray, who emigrated from Skye to the United States.
It was researched by Doris McGilvary and her husband Harold Steiner, retired USAF.
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It fits neatly into research, that shows the 2 very distinct branches of the Clan - the original McGilvray of the West Coast, and the offshoot MacGilivray of Strathnairn and Clan Chattan.
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There is good research within the BMD registers and parish records in Skye and trees and details of the family in the new world - enough for me to recreate as a GEDCOM on familysearch.
The foreword begins with an irritation.
Without detracting from the opening anecdote about Buckminster Fuller and his later contributions, it seems remiss to ignore the original inventor of the Geodesic Dome, Walther Bauersfeld and perpetuate the falsehood of Fuller's ‘invention'.
It is equally innovative to adapt the invention and see potential in a different context, smaller scale; robust, temporary shelters.
There's a-lot to read, and a-lot to like. A-lot to reflect upon.
The topics are structured and the interviewees interesting. I have a high regard to Ilse Crawford's work, so it was especially interesting to read her interview.
The COVID tie-in seems primed to be topical and to be honest, it seems too early to reflect upon, it is all the more glaring that the same basic methods were employed - the historical references to the beak mask only serves to highlight our inability to evolve long term approaches and methodology to recurring pandemics.
Although...
If there was a reference to how our present flow design in healthcare, the funnelling and penning of incoming patients in A&R, fails utterly for virus infection - then I missed it.
I would only say that most of the issues touched upon are ‘wicked' in scale, whereas the projects are for the most part, re-actionary and local in response.
The long-term project like the Jing kieng jri, is community driven and multi-generational, in contrast to ‘designer' initiated responses.
So, this book, full of examples and perspectives from practitioners, is perhaps really two books, or could be restructured, possibly the long-term and strategic, “Building a Better Future” and the contextual responses to acute issues, “Design for Emergency”. Or even Emergency Design. Design Emergency.
Anyway, quibbles and critique aside - very worth a read.
This was first published in 1984. I think that I, first read this book in the late 1980's and I've re-read it a few times during the years. I've just pulled it back out - in light of the current global supply chain problems.
This an enormously informative resource.
In the meantime different waves of optimisation systems have been embraced. Just in time (JIT) and TQM, Agile, etc.
In my opinion, Zero Inventories stands up. Still relevant, because it's written as a sense making and sharing document.
It therefore builds up and doesn't start with an assumption of previous reading and familiarity.
It is the beginning of a return reflection (or should have been), of the Asian (Korean, Japanese) research trips to Europe and North Americas during the 1960's, 70's and 80's. That is a comment about what we did after and separate from the the book.
I bought this book as a part of some ongoing family-clan research.
As it turned out it was interesting for a quite a few reasons.
It's a compilation of a series of short stories, previously published anonymously by William MacGillivray, they are basically the recounting of memorable people from his childhood and youth.
Lots of geography, doric dialect, domestic items, house terms, etc.
There are also illustrations by James Pittendrigh MacGillivray and H.C. Preston MacGoun.
The publisher (T.N.Foulis) has an interesting history and the catalogue ended up being owned by the same publisher that prints the Haynes Service Manuals.
This is a book written by William MacGillivray W.S. about his namesake William MacGillivray the naturalist and ornithologist.
A little background that isn't covered in the book, William MacGillivray W.S. was a lawyer and Writer to the Signet, who lived and worked in Edinburgh - born in Dores, educated in Stonehaven, then Edinburgh University. He was a lawyer in the litigation for the Chieftainship and inheritance of the Dunmaglass estate (amongst other properties).
Of course, we are in a much better position to have traced William MacGillivray's genealogy now - so the early part of the book tracing his birth and youth are a little wanting in absolute accuracy. However, that in no way detracts from the overall book, which is about the sentiment of how people's lives and the scientific discipline were shaped and affected by the contributions of William MacGillivray.
I think this book is a better conclusion to reading about William MacGillivray (ornithologist), rather than a starting point. I'd start with the Hebridean diary, then the walk to London, then some of the illustrations.
It's not easy to review a book that the author has poured his life's interest into and devoted 20 years of their life into. It's difficult to critique, when so much of the author is in the book.
It feels unfair and unjust. Regardless of the book's merits and failings.
It's a great resource, it's well researched.
Regardless of the title this is a book about Alexander McGillivray, there is background, especially his father and therefore the Scottish Highland connection,
There isn't so much about the other MacGillivray traders, but that is not Wright's fault. Anglicised records of Scots Gaelic names, that the distinctions and obvious relationships between all the Farquhars, Lachlans, Johns, Alexanders etc are lost.
There also isn't very much about the Mackintoshs. The Mackintosh and MacGillivray were intermarried and tightly linked in Strathnairn, allied together within Clan Chattan. There is likely a whole unresolved well of connection within the core research.
The book isn't particularly easy to read and because of that not very easy to absorb.
I ended up re-buying this an an e-book, so that I could annotate and reference. Then there was extra reading required around it.
This is a niche topic, however it is a rewarding book, if not a casual read.
A book in 3 parts
1. A run-through of the royal burgh / town / village's history
2 A walking guide through the village and surrounding area; noting the history and significance of buildings and sites.
3. A swash buckling tale.
I enjoyed this a lot. This mingled in with childhood holiday memories around the airfield, beach and village.
I used it as an inspiration before for walks and reference after walks.
This is a strange little book - I enjoyed it, earnest diarist, anthropologist and social documentarian.
Even though written in 1817, his concerns resonate and aren't dated in any way, what's so ever. His constant self-remonstrations to moderation and self-improvement; the reflections on the people around him. So human and relatable.
Lists and lists, everyone loves a list.
Above all we see him passing time in pursuit of his interests and where the foundation of his future work comes from.
As a side note, from a family research perspective; there are passing clues into the lives and business of this mysterious branch of the MacGillivray's.
Brief mention of Aunts Marion, Marjory/Marcella and their children - but no mention of Uncle John or even William's half-brother, who would later live with him in Edinburgh. These are very useful.
It's strange to read, knowing that Harris was in turmoil economically, and what would come. Having read around the clearances, the Macleods, Cluny - you're left wondering if they saw it, felt it or were just stoically resigned.
Robert Ralph has done a lovely job editing and the Appendices are enjoyable on their own.
This is quite a book.
Having grown up with stories of Culloden and the aftermath, it's interesting to find this book and read it with the distance of time and other sources.
The world of the clans was already in turmoil, following Glencoe, the 1713 Malt Tax, and the Disarming Acts of 1716 and 1725.
Explosive conflict was going happen.
The feudal world of the Highlands contrasts strongly with the industrialists in the south.
For the new world order from the South, the commercial opportunities were immense. For the clans, the consequences of the Heritable Jurisdictions Act 1746 were severe. With the 1746 Act of Proscription, the chiefs were stripped of position and legal influence and had become terrorists in their own lands, which were now being folded into this new world of the industrialists.
The defeated clans were indebted, barred from having weaponry, their tartan, their pipes - via the Dress Act of 1746 and ruthless enforcement of the Disarming Act of 1725.
As a result, an agricultural living was no longer sustainable and the lands were effectively cleared. The Highland clearances and exodus began.
Following a 100 years of economic suffocation, It could be read as a final death blow.
Ironically the agricultural versus industry conflict would be played out again, a hundred years later, in the New World where these Scots fled to.
Reading the appendices, only raises more questions, if you read the names involved, there were so few.
Nothing like the military for order and record keeping.
I was interested in one particular person, a family namesake. Father of a famous natural scientist.
There he was.
However, when you begin reading through the roll calls, you see the battles and toil, the suffering and loss.
Given that they were allowed to raise the 100 men for Highlanders 50 years after the rebellion, the ban of tartan, the pipes and weapons, shows the risk of allowing a division to be raised. That they showed their metal and a further 1000 men were authorised says more.
All in all, an unexpectedly enjoyable read.
Further on my comments whilst listening.
So it was broadcast in 1957.
Is it a glimpse to another time?
• Not accidentally chauvinistic, even casual, but an actual element. An actual structural part...
• The villain almost always kills themselves after confessing following a mild challenge- blonde hair on a dress, etc.
Having said that, the family sat listening (3 generations) and groaned, discussed. For all it's flaws it's not unenjoyable.
