‘Going organic can do more harm than good,’ says NZ winemaker
It’s been 30 years since New Zealand launched its sustainable winegrowing certification programme, now one of the most effective in…
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https://www.diningandcooking.com/2191314/going-organic-can-do-more-harm-than-good-says-nz-winemaker/
‘Going organic can do more harm than good,’ says NZ winemaker
It’s been 30 years since New Zealand launched its sustainable winegrowing certification programme, now one o…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #NewZealandWine #Bannockburn #Chardonnay #Landwalker #NewZealand #NewZealandwine #NewZealandWinegrowers #organic #PinotNoir #sustainability #SWNZ #tekano #Wine #WinefromNewZealand #WineofNewZealand
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2191314/going-organic-can-do-more-harm-than-good-says-nz-winemaker/
Here lies our land: every airt
Beneath swift clouds, glad glints of sun,
Belonging to none but itself…
—Kathleen Jamie, “Here lies our land”
This poem was commissioned in 2014 to mark the 700th anniversary of the battle of Bannockburn – fought #OTD, 24 June, 1314. The poem is inscribed on the Bannockburn monument.
https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/here-lies-our-land/
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Another for the anniversary of the Battle of Bannockburn, fought on 23/24 June 1314. Inside the superb @N_T_S Battle of Bannockburn Visitor Centre, bringing history to life. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/stirling/bannockburn/index.html
#OTD, 24 June, in 1314, the Scottish army under King Robert I destroyed a much larger English invasion force at Bannockburn, in one of the most decisive battles in medieval history. In 1793 Robert Burns composed “Scots Wha Hae”, originally entitled “Robert Bruce’s March To Bannockburn”
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711 years ago today. Robert the Bruce decisively won the Battle of Bannockburn on 23/24 June 1314, cementing his grip on Scotland and, arguably, deferring the Union of the Crowns of Scotland and England by nearly three centuries. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/stirling/bannockburn/index.html
An alternative account of the Bruce–de Bohun duel appears in 1066 & ALL THAT, by WC Sellar & RJ Yeatman, as one of the various (all unfair) reasons for the English defeat
(Historical curiosity: WC Sellar, a Scot, was grandson of Patrick Sellar, the Duke of Sutherland’s factor during the Clearances)
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Currently on BBC Sounds: Melvyn Bragg & guests – Michael Boardman & Rhiannon Purdie of the University of St Andrews,, & Steve Boardman of the University of Edinburgh – discuss ideas of chivalry & freedom in John Barbour's c.1375 epic, the earliest surviving poem in Older Scots
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002dpm8
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Back to the Future: The Bruce & Relevance to the 21st-Century Reader
“Scotland’s Iliad and Odyssey rolled into one”—Christine Robinson discusses how John Barbour’s #medieval epic poem is a liberating text for modern writers & speakers of Scots
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📷Duncan Cumming: Barbour quotation, Makars’ Court, Edinburgh
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Schyr Hanry myssit the noble king…
Robert I, King of Scots, killed Sir Henry de Bohun in single combat on the first day of the Battle of Bannockburn #OTD, 23 June 1314. The epic vernacular poem “The Brus” by John Barbour (c.1320–1395) describes the event
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