A couple of folks commented that hubby needed a hooky stick for his brambling forages. In fact he has one, and so I thought it merited a post on 365. I popped it out onto the rainy garden table for a photo shoot this morning.
You'll notice the Scottish thistle on the handle, which is made of horn. The stick was used by hubby's grandmother, and his dad - more for brambling than as walking assistance. I'm so glad we have it in the family, and hope one of our kids will use it in the future too.
It's a dreich and wet day today, and we have a walk planned later. We'll probably go anyway. But there's rugby to be watched on tv first this morning! Not by me, I may add.
Super shot, I was one of the ones that mentioned a hooky stick. It’s so nice that it’s been in your family so long. The one I have is my dads and maybe only 50 years old, he only used it to reach with too.
A beautifully carved handle on the stick. I believe your Scottish dialect has become commonplace since you've moved back. I can't translate a lot of your commentatry. A definition for a brambling stick and brambling never came up on Google. I have to assume it's a walking stick or cane, since it has the curved handle, to push away thee thorny branches when walking through the brush, especially the blackberry canes. Am I close? I was able to find a definition for dreich.
@randystreat Yes, I probably am using more of the 'doric' (our local dialect) since I returned to Scotland. Bramble is a word commonly used in Scotland, but also in the rest of the UK, to describe the blackberry. To go brambling is just a phrase we use locally to define the act of collecting wild brambles - not something you would find in a dictionary. Same for the brambling stick - you're right, it's actually just a walking stick, but we use it to bring the branches closer to us to help get at the far-away berries. As for 'dreich', that is a very Scottish term, used to described grey, dull, drizzly weather.
