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Hebrides

Hebrides
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About Hebrides

The Hebrides are the largest archipelago in the United Kingdom, off the west coast of the Scottish mainland. The islands fall into two main groups, based on their proximity to the mainland: the Inner and Outer Hebrides.

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In the Hebrides, there's a tradition of tossing porridge into the sea. This particularly happens on what's called Big Porridge Day, or Great Grul Thursday.

from No Such Thing As A Non-Judgemental Herring, 2019-06-07 at 00:06:05 · read transcript

Other times Hebrides came up

  1. When they were filming Les Miserables, the recent Hollywood version of it, they bought nine tons of seaweed from this company. Really? Is it real seaweed or fake? It's real. Is it? If they're in the Hebrides, I don't think they're stitching it. I think they're just gathering it. It's just like for movies, real seaweed is going to be, you know. Good point. It could be made of Harris Tweed.

    No Such Thing As A Sentient Jelly, 2020-01-24 · listen

  2. No, it's such a wonderful, world to me, the idea that you would sit in a room and someone would just read to you and you would all join in. There's all these examples of in the 1700s, particularly, women in letters correspondences, sending each other recommendations for types of book to be read out loud while they were doing certain things like knotting work, for example. Apparently, Boswell's Tour of the Hebrides is a fantastic book to be read out loud. When you're just tying knots in pieces of string.

    No Such Thing As The Best Bubble, 2020-02-21 · listen

  3. These things don't get in the way of true love. Yeah. He's living between. Yeah. He lives between the outer Hebrides and Shetland. Are there people around where he is or is he just monitored? He's been seen by birdwatchers, but I think he's looking for albatross as not people. Just hanging out. As a birdwatcher, if you're spending your whole life around blue tits and sparrows, that is fucking exciting when a giant albatross appears on the horizon because they aren't massive.

    308: No Such Thing As The Land Of Flying Sheep, 2020-02-14 · listen

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