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by bill1953
Thu Mar 29, 2012 6:50 pm
Forum: The ish Local - (Chat)
Topic: Leprechauns, Fairies and other little people
Replies: 37
Views: 8456

Re: Leprechauns, Fairies and other little people

I wrote about this on my blog http://robstacey.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/faeriesfairiesspirit-of-place.html It is only my opinion however I do not claim it as the solid universal truth Great post! When my eldest daughter was about 14 she was very into goth. She asked me to take her to an ancient churc...
by bill1953
Thu Mar 29, 2012 6:39 pm
Forum: The ish Local - (Chat)
Topic: Leprechauns, Fairies and other little people
Replies: 37
Views: 8456

Re: Leprechauns, Fairies and other little people

Leprechauns, fairies etc, no one has ever presented a good argument for why they could not exist. Oh, go on then... Although I can't help but feel I'm having my chain yanked. :wink: It's not that I don't think they could exist, it's just that I haven't seen anything to convince me that they actuall...
by bill1953
Thu Mar 29, 2012 6:37 pm
Forum: The ish Local - (Chat)
Topic: Leprechauns, Fairies and other little people
Replies: 37
Views: 8456

Re: Leprechauns, Fairies and other little people

Leprechauns, fairies etc, no one has ever presented a good argument for why they could not exist. Oh, go on then... Although I can't help but feel I'm having my chain yanked. :wink: It's not that I don't think they could exist, it's just that I haven't seen anything to convince me that they actuall...
by bill1953
Thu Mar 29, 2012 3:49 pm
Forum: The ish Local - (Chat)
Topic: Leprechauns, Fairies and other little people
Replies: 37
Views: 8456

Re: Leprechauns, Fairies and other little people

My mother-in-law (from Waterford) absolutely believes in all these things. Sometimes she almost convinces me too... I look at it this way, when the first reports about gorillas reached civillisation most people denied such a creature could exist. It has taken a long time for giant squids to be take...
by bill1953
Thu Mar 29, 2012 2:47 pm
Forum: The ish Local - (Chat)
Topic: Weather
Replies: 29
Views: 6422

Re: Weather

I have noticed a great pile of bumble bees flying about
by bill1953
Thu Mar 29, 2012 2:42 pm
Forum: Allotments, Veg Patches and Container Gardening
Topic: Forsythia
Replies: 10
Views: 2378

Re: Forsythia

:scratch: But it is a bush??
by bill1953
Thu Mar 29, 2012 10:15 am
Forum: Allotments, Veg Patches and Container Gardening
Topic: Forsythia
Replies: 10
Views: 2378

Re: Forsythia

Nice bush :icon_smile:
by bill1953
Wed Mar 28, 2012 5:02 pm
Forum: The ish Local - (Chat)
Topic: Leprechauns, Fairies and other little people
Replies: 37
Views: 8456

Re: Leprechauns, Fairies and other little people

My grandfather wouldn't allow anyone near one especially in the dark because you wouldn't come back alive unless you were dead first. But there was far equally other dangerous things to be found at night. My father remembers his Uncle Pats calling one night about 1924 to have a drink with my grandfa...
by bill1953
Wed Mar 28, 2012 4:28 pm
Forum: The ish Local - (Chat)
Topic: Leprechauns, Fairies and other little people
Replies: 37
Views: 8456

Re: Leprechauns, Fairies and other little people

Look up the term "otherkin" and you'll find people who believe themselves to be decended from various mythological creatures. Most of them are full of it, but some do have actual physical abnormalities that make you wonder. Pointed ears, extra bones, that sort of thing. I have a friend wh...
by bill1953
Wed Mar 28, 2012 4:24 pm
Forum: The ish Local - (Chat)
Topic: Leprechauns, Fairies and other little people
Replies: 37
Views: 8456

Re: Leprechauns, Fairies and other little people

I've never seen them, but I believe in them (hence the username!). Or maybe it was too much Enid Blyton growing up... Me too. There was also another incident in my father's village. A farmer called Rumley had a 'fairy fort' on his land. This was an iron or bronze age circular fort made of clay and ...
by bill1953
Wed Mar 28, 2012 3:44 pm
Forum: The ish Local - (Chat)
Topic: Leprechauns, Fairies and other little people
Replies: 37
Views: 8456

Re: Leprechauns, Fairies and other little people

Just a liitle over a few hundred years ago the local people decided to build a graveyard near the church for burying the dead people in. They built a stone wall around it. The next morning all the wall had been moved up to the top of a hill. So they moved it down again but the same thing happened an...
by bill1953
Wed Mar 28, 2012 3:31 pm
Forum: Livestock
Topic: Fox?
Replies: 10
Views: 5372

Re: Fox?

Farmer 1 Fox 100. Fox wins.
by bill1953
Wed Mar 28, 2012 2:36 pm
Forum: The ish Local - (Chat)
Topic: Leprechauns, Fairies and other little people
Replies: 37
Views: 8456

Re: Leprechauns, Fairies and other little people

boboff wrote:I think Bill might be extracting the preverbial so to speak. :-)
Certainly not, it's a serious subject where I come from :shock: and you with your Piskies and all.
by bill1953
Wed Mar 28, 2012 2:23 pm
Forum: The ish Local - (Chat)
Topic: Leprechauns, Fairies and other little people
Replies: 37
Views: 8456

Re: Leprechauns, Fairies and other little people

I've never seen them, but I believe in them (hence the username!). Or maybe it was too much Enid Blyton growing up... Me too. There was also another incident in my father's village. A farmer called Rumley had a 'fairy fort' on his land. This was an iron or bronze age circular fort made of clay and ...