Clearing the confusion

There is much confusion amongst the clans about how the future looks like working out for them in Scotland. Although perhaps the oldest means by which we Scotts organise ourselves in good times and bad there is yet to be established a formal means by which our clans are to be given expression in the new Scotland forming around us.
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Much puzzled by this and other issues, many in Clan MacTavish have spent much of the day working off their anxieties on their fields, in their workshops, and at the construction site for the new lodge we are building.
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Having yesterday perfected our technique of raising the post and beam construction which will support the roof and walls, today we sunk the remaining posts into the ground. By late afternoon all were in the ground, and the various supporting beams were being raised into place. The tounge and groove rebating provides a firm structure once afixed with wedges sledged in to drive the joints home.

After several worrisome moments the measurements so carefully made several days before prove themselves as accurate as the craft in the moulding of the beams themselves. As evening falls, the final cross pieces are added to the upper joints.
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Hard work, it has been good to sweat out some of the anxieties that have recently gathered. At the end of the day, the full extent of what we are building begins to become clear.



Tomorrow, we commence the roof framework ...