Classes finally started this week, and so I've been busy learning about the weird and wonderful world of Jurisprudence, Medieval Legal History and International Private Law. I've also made my first curry...
Anyways, last Saturday, we went to the Isle of Skye... and proceeded to do some pretty interesting stuff. Visited Eileen Dornan Castle, as I've mentioned earlier, and we also went to this place called Kilt Rock.
basically, the rocks in the background are meant to resemble the back of a kilt. Chad was good enough to model this one.
Anyways, let's get back to the list. The tour guides (the aforesaid Tony and Mikey) got us to write up a list of things we wanted to do. The list, at the end included things like trying on kilts (Chad), sipping some water of life (whisky), seeing Loch Ness, getting plastered, kissing a Scotsman (not my wish), and swinging a claymore (mine).
No 4: Swing a claymore
I got a bit more than i bargained for... the claymore got upsized to a lochaber axe...
The man wanted to demonstrate what happened to traitors, and i realised something
Blades that don't look sharp often are - basically, pull upwards.
But at the end...
It was worth it.
Ok that's a lochaber axe, not a claymore. Claymores went out of fashion (like bell-bottoms ... oh wait those are coming back). Anyways, claymores they went out of style because swinging large, sharp, double-edged swords at high speeds while running down hills (the Highlanders' favourite modus operandi) meant that you often chopped off the ears of the person next to you.
There's probably a moral in there somewhere.
Anyways, last Saturday, we went to the Isle of Skye... and proceeded to do some pretty interesting stuff. Visited Eileen Dornan Castle, as I've mentioned earlier, and we also went to this place called Kilt Rock.
basically, the rocks in the background are meant to resemble the back of a kilt. Chad was good enough to model this one.
Anyways, let's get back to the list. The tour guides (the aforesaid Tony and Mikey) got us to write up a list of things we wanted to do. The list, at the end included things like trying on kilts (Chad), sipping some water of life (whisky), seeing Loch Ness, getting plastered, kissing a Scotsman (not my wish), and swinging a claymore (mine).
No 4: Swing a claymore
I got a bit more than i bargained for... the claymore got upsized to a lochaber axe...
The man wanted to demonstrate what happened to traitors, and i realised something
Blades that don't look sharp often are - basically, pull upwards.
But at the end...
It was worth it.
Ok that's a lochaber axe, not a claymore. Claymores went out of fashion (like bell-bottoms ... oh wait those are coming back). Anyways, claymores they went out of style because swinging large, sharp, double-edged swords at high speeds while running down hills (the Highlanders' favourite modus operandi) meant that you often chopped off the ears of the person next to you.
There's probably a moral in there somewhere.
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