Distractions while it rains outside

While trawling through and sorting all my email*, found a link to the Birka Grave find catalogue (in swedish), then noticed that by clicking on the translate button you get this english language version, which allows a little more comprehensive searching by those of us not conversant in swedish.... especially since it will allow you to do a grave by grave search/check of things. And see images of the original excavation diagrams etc.

Still croaking.

* I think it was a form of procrastination from printing out the pictures to get started on Christmas present stuff. Not certain if it counts as a productive afternoon or not.

I do get distracted easily

After for some reason deciding to search for the lyrics to "Leave us our glens" (lyrics here and for those with wide broadband, ~11:45 in here - those who have appreciated tours of Scotland at Festival will appreciate it), discovered that youtube has a large array of Karen Matheson (of Capercaillie fame) stuff.

Such as:
Puirt a Beul
To the moon
Crooked Mountain (though why they have set it to a picture of Mt Cook and Mt Tasman from the West Coast, I have no idea...)

Need more Capercaillie albums since I have too few of their albums on CD and one of those (a best of album I think) was lost some time while in Canberra.

Will have to go chasing more at a less late hour of the night.

After this version of Down by the Salley Garden :)