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I love it! What a little treasure. And yes that's why I love walking this path ALWAYS a new story to learn!

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Exactly! I’m quite new to it so still learning how everything is linked up but I love it so far! ❤️

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Ahhh Fionn Mac Cumhail’s nemesis from across the sea! I had forgotten he was in Scotland. We have Jock o Benachie here in Aberdeenshire, guarding our local hill range - Benachie (the easternmost edge of the Grampian Mountains).

https://www.abdn.ac.uk/elphinstone/map/text/36_Jock_the_Giant_of_Bennachie.pdf

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Oh wow! Thank you. I'll have to take a look at that one!

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Hope you’re having a happy Hampshire Day! This looks fab! 🤗 I’m afraid I had to google Ascapart (my excuse is I’m from Aberdeenshire) 😳. Will definitely be having a listen to the podcast on the King Under the Hill.

I celebrate St. Swithin’s Day in my own way every year: hoping and praying for rain as I struggle with a relentless British summer of forty days without my blessed, nurturing 🌧️🙏. Have taken to wearing a wee magical rain brooch pinned to my postie uniform in the hope that it will bring rain like a rain dance. My colleagues curse me of course for wanting to bring in the rain 😂. Can you imagine my delight this morning. . . . . . .?! Up here it’s been a day of showers and sunlight- a glorious mix!

Is there a legend about St. Swithin’s bones being moved from their original resting place to a new location and the rain coming (taken as an omen as the saint didn’t want to be moved)?

I have a photo of my wee St. Swithin’s Day pin badge but cant’ quite figure out how to attach it here!

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Hi Sandra! Thanks for sharing all of this. I think we could definitely do with a bit of rain here too. It's been a very mixed bag today so perhaps we will have 40 days of mixed weather ... I guess we'll see.

That is indeed another version of the legend, that when his bones were moved he caused it to rain for forty days. His bones were moved on the 15th July and that's where the saying comes from.

There are many giant tales in the Britain and Ireland, as you know and you have some very famous giants of your own up there in Aberdeenshire. I love the stories of the cyclops Cailleachs and of course, Benandonner.

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Looks like we're in for 40 days of rain then!

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Yup 🤦☔

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