A haiku that came to me with the #prompt 'Rickle' I saw elsewhere.
A rickle of books
Discarded, finished with now
Waiting for the shelf
More information about the Scots word Wally can be found here: https://www.scotslanguage.com/articles/view/id/4701
#glasgow #tenement #tiles #tiling #wallyclose #scotswords #architecture #glasgowbuildings
Of obscure origin, wallie is often used to describe anything fine, beautiful or excellent, as in: “Thanks to ye, sir, for your mony wally words” from Hew Ainslie’s A Pilgrimage to the Land of Burns (1822), and in: “Wae a’ hid a wally supper” from C M Costie’s …
M Bonbon đź––
Angela Miller
This Is My Glasgow