Rosa Alba Macdonald

Scottis Catholic dominie, supporter of iAlba: whiles gairdener, makar, photographer, folkie sangster & shewster. Aa views ma ain. Tweets mainly in Scots.

[Rosa Alba Macdonald @rosa_alba_macd]

Ae guid an braw Neer,
But wheest ye ae wee
Afore ye beek the bairnikie
In braid galaxies
O glary expectatiouns,
Howps bright lit wi pouther-deils,
Hie squeebs airch syne faa tae stour
Luik close athin
Mirk nicht an pousker winds,
Fin Lode-Starn sheen
An siccar airt.

[Angus B MacNeil 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @AngusBMacNeil]

Imagine you are Greenlander....the end of free healthcare and sky high premiums could be on the way. 🤷🙈🤷

[Rosa Alba Macdonald @rosa_alba_macd]

@steven_c58284 @tamerawallwork_ Good man. Few people do. I usually do, but so much snow has fallen, and it has been so cold, I cannot get into the shed for the shovel (lock frozen). I tried other means but not successful.

[Rosa Alba Macdonald @rosa_alba_macd]

@JohannLamont @ManFromDeImonte All valid points.

[Rosa Alba Macdonald @rosa_alba_macd]

Where has Scottish (Scots Language) Twitter gone?

[Rosa Alba Macdonald @rosa_alba_macd]

@UllapoolB @QuercusBooks Oooh another SGMacLean Book. Yay. Best news of the day.

[Rosa Alba Macdonald @rosa_alba_macd]

@a_bindoff @LJE2819 @BexBookaholic I agree.

[Rosa Alba Macdonald @rosa_alba_macd]

@_Unknown_D_ Subsidised housing for as long as needed but remembering that need might mean alternative affordable housing (when that is fiscally an option for a family) might be too far from work, childcare, family, other responsibilities, accessible transport.

[Daractenus @Daractenus]

I don't know what’s to be done, but if we do give up Greenland, it will be just a matter of time until some other bits of Europe become “essential to US security.” In the meantime, Canada is almost guaranteed to be next on the menu. Dark days ahead us.

[Glenn Tunes @glenn_tunes]

The Olympic Committee has to find another country that can host the Olympic Games 👍 America should never be allowed to host any kind of global Sporting event until the Trump administration is removed and democracy is restored ✊✊✊✊

[Rosa Alba Macdonald @rosa_alba_macd]

@infantrydort And basically the mindset of your President that you are voicing is unmitigated bullying and lacks all kind of awareness and holds the potential to unleash the end of NATO and war-fare. Also not being hypocritical

[Rosa Alba Macdonald @rosa_alba_macd]

@infantrydort Because 1917 Treaty and the fact that the Greenlandic themselves should decide their future geopolitically. Because one does not just take what one wants regardless of the ownership of what one takes, and the needs and wellbeing of others.
Not everyone aspires to being American/

[Rosa Alba Macdonald @rosa_alba_macd]

@tamerawallwork_ I have not seen any gritters in the flesh (but I would not) but have seen gritters not managing to keep Dual Carriageways open with 1m plus drifts and winds meaning 5m after it is cleared it needs done again. There is 25cm of snow in my garden. I live on coast exactly sea level

[Rosa Alba Macdonald @rosa_alba_macd]

@steven_c58284 @tamerawallwork_ Why not get a shovel and a rubber trug and grit your own bit, after clearing it?

[Rosa Alba Macdonald @rosa_alba_macd]

@ThatAlexWoman Get a back boiler put in. Wood/multifuel. And a good woolly vest, hot water bottle.

[Rosa Alba Macdonald @rosa_alba_macd]

@BGatesIsaPyscho I was not in this world in 1963... So this is a once in 50 years (maybe 60 odd years) occurrence.

[Rosa Alba Macdonald @rosa_alba_macd]

@BGatesIsaPyscho This exceeds almost every winter I have known in my life - including 2010/11, 11/12 and 2016 Beast from the East; also 198..something . The exception maybe - the equal - some time around 197something x 2 and but that was in high level Stirlingshire and Perth/Kinross. /

[Rosa Alba Macdonald @rosa_alba_macd]

@Fyrishsunset responsibility: keeping safe, contributing to clearing paths/pavements/roads, keeping warm (cardies, duvet over knees, hot water bottle) and not being injudicious in ones actions are something we can all do.

[Rosa Alba Macdonald @rosa_alba_macd]

@BronwynChat @AlexNeilSNP me too... two hospital admissions in July - emergency - and while ambulance wait was tricky on second occasion (my communication deficiences on the phone: did not realise how serious it was) I was seen immediately by A&E. I think people forget that triaging happens.

[Rosa Alba Macdonald @rosa_alba_macd]

@Douglas4Moray on their own, or read/access much of the curated/shared material online.. and certainly not without adult input. "Practise writing the numbers 1-30 in the snow with a coloured water in an empty juice bottle" needs an adult to decode; share 15 bits of pasta between 3 toys: same.

[Rosa Alba Macdonald @rosa_alba_macd]

@Douglas4Moray other misfortunes that befall the laptops in and out of school. (One of the less ...dramatic... someone leaving it on the floor and someone else falling on or moving their chair back on to it; paint spillages; and to be honest, P1 and P2 don't need/can't log in to laptops/2