It has been a busy few months bringing this all together but now it can finally launch so welcome to As Manx as the Hills’ new online shop/shapp er linney! …
manx life
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⬥Did you avar heer the lek of yandhar? Whey, they say they’re are things talkin’ at Jimmy Juan Nan’s. ⟡Aw, well, well, man! I’m nor a bit surprised at that. …
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Below is the final chapter from Lancashire Sketches (third edition) published by Edwin Waugh in 1869. It is quite lengthy but a delightful read. I do not know how accurate …
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We first hear of the Quakers (aka Society of Friends) in Lord Fairfax’s time (1651-1660), when the governor prohibited anyone from receiving them into their houses, and the Quakers themselves …
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Some entries from A Vocabulary of the Anglo-Manx Dialect (1924) compiled by AW Moore with the co-operation of Sophia Morrison and Edmund Goodwin. MHINYAG [minjag] (Mx. minniag) – a pinch, …
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Happy Laa Luanys. It’s that time of the year when the bounty of the land and the strength of the summer days bring us a much needed harvest. May …
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Thie Ferrishyn was the name sometimes given to what was supposed to have been the first house built in a village, its oldest house, because the fairies were fondest of …
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The Manx farmyard was known as ‘the Street’ and around it stood the stable, cowhouses, barn and pigsty. The ‘midden’ was never far from the stable and cowhouses and here …