{"id":2305,"date":"2016-04-30T08:49:31","date_gmt":"2016-04-30T07:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/?p=2305"},"modified":"2016-04-30T08:49:31","modified_gmt":"2016-04-30T07:49:31","slug":"bannockburn-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/?p=2305","title":{"rendered":"Bannockburn revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Recently I have been posting a picture each day on Facebook thanks to a challenge more than a month ago now, by Fraser my brother in law.\u00a0\u00a0 Today’s picture is one I took last June on a visit to Bannockburn, near Stirling, on my journey home from Brentford.\u00a0\u00a0I call it Contemplating the Bruce<\/em>.\u00a0 Lily the dog, complete with tartan collar (!) looks at the statue of the victor of Bannockburn, slightly out of focus in the distance.\u00a0 Our perspective on past historical events is often far from clear, and seen through the lens of our own prejudices\u00a0and\u00a0our interpretation and reinterpretation of the past.<\/p>\n

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It was an early Saturday morning, the site was quiet, the sun was out and the buttercups were in full bloom – a perfect place for some photographs.\u00a0\u00a0 The dogs loved it as they chased one another round the statue of King Robert the Bruce, my 19th great grandfather.<\/p>\n

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The words of Roy William’s song now adopted as an informal Scottish National Anthem come to mind.<\/p>\n

O Flower of Scotland,
\nWhen will we see
\nYour like again,
\nThat fought and died for,
\nYour wee bit Hill and Glen,
\nAnd stood against him,
\nProud Edward’s Army,
\nAnd sent him homeward,
\nTo think again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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