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This page remains under construction, though I fear the work has dragged on so long that I can no longer recall what I set out to build.

Reuse of photos and content

All scribblings on this esteemed digital enclave are graciously published under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license. You will find the details at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/. By the generous decree of this license, I do retain my claim over the words and pictures, yet extend the privilege to all and sundry to pilfer, scatter, and even tamper with them, so long as it is done for non-commercial purposes and the obligatory nod is given to this venerable website.

Should you, however, wish to exploit my genius for profit, a token of appreciation directed towards the Cleveland Search and Rescue Team would be most courteous. I do insist that you drop me a note, just to confirm that your conscience is clear.

This splendid right to reuse the image most certainly does not encompass the ignoble pursuit of printing and vending said image on Ebay or any other such mercantile arena.

My old site

Link to my old site https://fhithich.wordpress.com/ About six months’ worth of posts from my erstwhile site have stubbornly refused to migrate to the new one, leaving me with yet another item to add to my list of ever-expanding chores. Rest assured, this little inconvenience will be addressed with the utmost urgency—eventually.

On pronunciation of ‘Fhithich’

I have been informed that in Gaelic, an ‘h’ following the consonants ‘f’ and ‘t’ renders them silent, while the ‘ch’ is pronounced with a forcefulness akin to that of a ‘loch’. Now I have also read that ‘fhithich’ is pronounced much like the noise made by a raven (with the ‘fh’ being silent), and according to my esteemed RSPB Handbook of British Birds, the raven’s cry resembles either “a hollow sounding ‘kronk’ or an echoing ‘toc’”. To be honest, I am none the wiser.

OS Map Extracts

The Ordnance Survey, in a fit of bureaucratic lassitude, decided to consign their coding to insert a small map extract to the proverbial dustbin. The task of updating my myriad old posts to fit their new coding has proved too daunting. Thus, the relic of the old coding remains, helpfully identified by a square box so:

Should you stumble upon such a post and find yourself yearning to behold the new map, do feel free to leave a comment.