#Fisherfolk

[asoiafreadthru]

A Game of Thrones, Tyrion III

“I tell you, my lord, the darkness is coming.

“There are wild things in the woods, direwolves and mammoths and snow bears the size of aurochs, and I have seen darker shapes in my dreams.”

“In your dreams,” Tyrion echoed, thinking how badly he needed another strong drink.

Mormont was deaf to the edge in his voice.

“The fisherfolk near Eastwatch have glimpsed white walkers on the shore.”

This time Tyrion could not hold his tongue. “The fisherfolk of Lannisport often glimpse merlings.”

“Denys Mallister writes that the mountain people are moving south, slipping past the Shadow Tower in numbers greater than ever before.

“They are running, my lord…but running from what?”

[paulinecordiner]

This is just a wee selection of the amazing photos taken by Windswept Stories Photography last week doon at the beach and Fittie. (And it was really hard to choose which ones to put up!)

I wanted some photos with Elsie (she's my wee fishwife pal) and the creel which I picked up from Fancy That? the other week.

Elsie is a right gossip and we had a yap to some of the Fittie residents and visitors - Sarah managed to capture it all so well!

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

“Gaspe Fishermen Face Starvation,” Montreal Star. November 11, 1932. Page 21. --- Failure of Catch and Potato Crop Causes Serious Situation ---- QUEBEC, Nov 11— (Star Special) —A number of fishing settlements in the Gaspe region are facing starvation during the coming winter, due to the failure of the fishing season and ruin of the potato crop through rain. 

Things are worse than has been stated up to now, and in one village alone, it is reported a family of nine existed on nothing but three loaves of bread for an entire week. 

Potatoes have always been one of the staple foods for fishermen during the winter months and in former years the harvest has been abundant but now fishing villages, such as Paspebiac, are importing potatoes from Prince Edward Island, a thing unheard of in the past. As there la very little money, fisherman are wondering what they are going to do when it has gone and they cannot purchase anything.

“Inhabitant of  cities and towns do not know what privation and hardship is," it was stated this morning by Hon.John Hall Kelley, Legislative Counselor who recently returned from the Gaspe region. "Why, only this summer I saw a man doing a hard day work whose only food for luncheon was' raw cucumber. And yet they never complain." r

PULPWOOD SITUATION The only thing that can save a number of the villages from being practically wiped out is the possibility of disposing of pulpwood and ‘umber that is lying idle on the land, and to that end, negotiations are under way between the interested parties.

 Another thing that will help the fisherfolk to a certain extent is the operation by limit holders during the coming winter of their holdings and thus enabling a certain number of men to get employment and earn a few dollars. If the limits are operated, it will mean that some thousands of men will be engaged. Limit-holders will wait upon the Government In the near future to ask for a reduction In ground-rents and stumpage dues.

[grnpnsth-blog]

[hargo-news]

Sawaludin Expresses Gratitude in Campaign Among Fisherfolk Majority

#Election2024 #GratitudeCampaign Sawaludin Expresses Gratitude in Campaign Among Fisherfolk Majority

Hargo.co.id, GORONTALO – PPP candidate for Indonesian Parliament from Gorontalo constituency, Sawaludin, performed a prostration of gratitude during a campaign in Tenda Village, Hulondhalangi Subdistrict, Gorontalo City, Wednesday (27/12/2023). Sawaludin’s action was prompted by his encounter with many constituents at the fishermen’s association. Besides being a businessman, Sawaludin is…

[beenasarwar]

Why arrest fisherfolk who cross an invisible maritime boundary, then hold them for years across the border?

After yet another Indian fisherman died in custody in Pakistan, I asked my friend Jatin Desai in Mumbai to write for Sapan News syndicated features about the issue. We ended up doing it together, calling on the authorities to take action. Pls share widely

Last month, another Indian fisherman incarcerated in Pakistan died while waiting to be repatriated. A young man in his thirties. Why he was held in the first place makes no sense to me, and to a lot of other people. India and Pakistan routinely detain each others fisherfolk. In doing so, they defy international law, deny the incarcerated men consular access in violation of their own laws, hold…

[robespapier]

It's always "Robespierre never saw the sea" and never "Robespierre never saw mountains", and while I do see the point of saying this as a general commentary on how little of France he actually saw/travelled to, I think it mostly says a lot about how we now see the seaside as the ultimate holiday destination and think of "never having seen the sea" as a very sad thought...

I think my point is, would Robespierre himself care that he never went to the seaside?

[hussyknee]

Today in discovering I'm a flaming ignoramus: TIL Asterisk and his people (the comic characters) were not Vikings and those are not Viking helmets. Which I should have clocked earlier because he's Asterisk the Gaul. I had the image of them being Vikings so firmly in my head since I was a child that the adolescent knowledge of where tf Gaul is simply did not connect until today. And then I had an actual crisis like, wait are the French descended from Vikings?? and had to google.

If I had actually read the books or watched the cartoons I would have seen them fighting Vikings but I was a Tintin girl and Asterisk was too visually chaotic after Herge's clean lines and clear details. My sister is laughing at me because she says the cartoon said they were the last remaining Celtic village even in the Sinhalese dub.

Sedimented knowledge is an amazing thing. Whatever you believe in your earliest years just sinks to the very bed of your brain and lies there, undisturbed by intellect or new knowledge, right up until you happen to think it out loud and have an immediate record scratch moment. This is why I deeply believed until my 20s that pineapples grew underground (and I have seen pineapple groves over their fences!) and that pythons could spontaneously regenerate if cleaved in two unless you throw the two halves in opposite directions (this is such a deeply held folk belief that my former father in law actually argued about it with me).

[nevesmose]

Fisherfolk Cottage

Until the growth of trawling in the late 1800s, fishing was generally a family business. Fisher families were highly religious but also very superstitious. The stone hanging on the wall is a 'witch stone'. These were hung in houses and were believed to prevent drowning.

[bassultra]

she tackle on my box till i bait

[asoiafreadthru]

A Game of Thrones, Catelyn IV

High overhead, the far-eyes sang out from the rigging. Captain Moreo came scrambling across the deck, giving orders, and all around them the Storm Dancer burst into frenetic activity as King’s Landing slid into view atop its three high hills.

Three hundred years ago, Catelyn knew, those heights had been covered with forest, and only a handful of fisherfolk had lived on the north shore of the Blackwater Rush where that deep, swift river flowed into the sea.

Then Aegon the Conqueror had sailed from Dragonstone.

It was here that his army had put ashore, and there on the highest hill that he built his first crude redoubt of wood and earth.

Now the city covered the shore as far as Catelyn could see; manses and arbors and granaries, brick storehouses and timbered inns and merchant’s stalls, taverns and graveyards and brothels, all piled one on another. She could hear the clamor of the fish market even at this distance.

Between the buildings were broad roads lined with trees, wandering crookback streets, and alleys so narrow that two men could not walk abreast.

[paulinecordiner]

Look at that massive smile... Elsie the Fishwife is delighted because she knows she'll now be travelling to our storytelling sessions in style!

I have been looking for an authentic fishwife's creel for years, and finally I got one yesterday from Fancy That? in Edzell! (We enjoyed our nosey around at all the other amazing things and will have a nosey at their shop Ivy's Emporium next time we're in Banff)

The creel came from Whitehills near Banff and has been well looked after, so it's perfect for another few decades use! If you would like a fully costumed storytelling fishwife for your event, please don't hesitate to get in touch :D

[subby-sab]

Today is 31st of May.

Today is World Parrot Day, National Smile Day, National Fisherfolk Day, National Macaron Day.

[smellofwater]

Jonny Hannah - Shipbuilders and Fisherfolk

[paperback-rascal]

What if Crosshair has aversion to raw seafood (especially fish) after being stranded on Kamino for 32 rotations? Let's face it - raw fish were most likely his main source of sustenance after rations run out (if he even had any).

There will be most likely a journey ahead of him, as people of Pabu seem to be predominantly fisherfolks. He could have a hard time going to the lower levels of Pabu or at least avoiding going out at certain times of the day when fishermen unload their catch.

Also as calming as fishing together might seem to Wrecker, first few times were extremely taxing for the sniper.

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STAR WARS: The Clone Wars/The Bad Batch © George Lucas/ Dave Filoni/ LucasFilm/ Disney

[warlockwyll]

And it was then, the tales tell us, that Prince Daemon Targaryen swung a leg over his saddle and leapt from one dragon to the other. In his hand was Dark Sister, the sword of Queen Visenya. As Aemond One-Eye looked up in terror, fumbling with the chains that bound him to his saddle, Daemon ripped off his nephew’s helm and drove the sword down into his blind eye, so hard the point came out the back of the young prince’s throat. Half a heartbeat later, the dragons struck the lake, sending up a gout of water so high that it was said to have been as tall as Kingspyre Tower.

Neither man nor dragon could have survived such an impact, the fisherfolk who saw it said. Nor did they. Caraxes lived long enough to crawl back onto the land. Gutted, with one wing torn from his body and the waters of the lake smoking about him, the Blood Wyrm found the strength to drag himself onto the lakeshore, expiring beneath the walls of Harrenhal.

Fire & Blood