![]() ![]() ![]() The hedges along the old railway track are frothy with hawthorn and cow parsley just now and oyster catchers and gulls are wheeling overhead. ( Or why they enjoyed chasing foxes so much…)Ģ2nd May – Memories sad and strange (Gladsmuir to Longniddry) But I still don’t know why huntsmen’s scarlet jackets were described as pink. I remember being surprised by Shakespeare’s description of the beautiful Olivia in Twelfth Night as having a red and white complexion. The modern colour name actually comes from association with another flower: the clove-scented Dianthus, with its delicately fringed or “pinked” petals. Before that, what we now call pink was thought of as a shade of red. Apparently its common name predates the first use of “pink” as an adjective in the 17th century. Red Campion was in bloom along my trike route yesterday. It was delightful.Ĥth June – Red Campion in bloom (Glasduir to Seton) Anyway, Nigella led me efficiently to Pishwanton Wood, on the Southern borders of East Lothian. It was everyone else who were foreigners. I know someone who used to say, quite without irony, that wherever she travelled in the world, she never felt foreign because she was English. In fact, it’s less embarrassing because I have the excuse of being foreign. It’s no stranger for me to be lost in Cairo or Lisbon than in the tiny village where I grew up. They didn’t realise that if you’ve never had your bearings, you can’t lose them. People who knew me as a child were surprised when I grew up to be an independent traveller. How thankful I am for Nigella: I’ve always had a very poor sense of direction. I made my way to Pishwanton Wood with the help of Nigella, the obliging little person who lives in my phone and patiently gives me directions. Ah well….ġ9th June – A Sense of Direction (Gladsmuir to Pishwanton Wood) What I’ve actually produced is a messy snail trail. *more like trundling, actually, but you get the picture…ġ0th July: Today I find myself travelling to Longniddry ( again!) in brilliant sunshine with a slight fresh breeze: bliss! So my contribution to Borders 22 was to be a map of my trike trips to the borders of East Lothian in the shape of a star. Even better that a large mammal was whizzing* along on her trike, very comfortable in her own skin. On a beautiful, cool, early morning, it was wonderful to observe a young deer, a hare, a kestrel and a buzzard, all doing what they do without a trace of self-consciousness. Today as I pedalled I was reflecting on how much more at ease I feel in my sixties than I ever did in my twenties and thirties. Far from enjoying all this admiration I felt extremely uncomfortable. Women said I should advise my friend Brenda (a slender, stunning brunette) to eat butter and bleach her hair so that she could look more like me. Men followed me on the street and made lewd or fatuous comments. When I arrived in Cairo as a plump, fair-haired young woman in 1984, I was overwhelmed by all the attention I received. A recent favourite is the woman who shouted “now there’s a bike and a half!” To be honest, I quite enjoy being noticed these days.Īs a child I was painfully shy, but secretly craved attention and as a socially awkward and physically ungainly teenager I envied those girls who could turn heads with their attractive faces and trim figures. I get a lot of attention on my Borders22 adventures in my yellow MMF shirt and fluorescent helmet. ![]()
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![]() This can be seen in many AR-15 target practice videos and photographs available online, and is accurately reflected in the photograph posted by Rothman on Facebook.Ī bullet causes its most significant damage inside a person’s body, destroying the blood vessels, tissue and bone in its immediate path (“ permanent cavitation“), but also creating a kind of shockwave outwards into the tissue that surrounds this path. So a round fired correctly from a functioning AR-15 should create an entrance wound (or target practice marking) just under a quarter-inch in diameter. 223 Remington cartridges, which are housed in bullets with a diameter of 5.7 millimetres. Jay Wachtel, a retired police sergeant and special agent in the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, and a former criminal justice lecturer at California State University, summed it up in an e-mail: “The entrance wound for any firearm projectile is essentially the bullet diameter.” The “black hole” shown in the poster is vastly too large to represent an AR-15 entrance wound. There are no graphic images in this article, but we do at times get into descriptions of the damage caused by gun shots that some readers might find upsetting. ![]() ![]() In brief, both sides in this dispute are right in some ways and wrong in others, and each photograph offers an incomplete examination of the kind of damage and impact that can be caused by gun shots.Īt the heart of the issue is the question of what is meant by the “hole made by an AR-15.” There are basically three possibilities: the entrance wound, the exit wound, and the cavity caused by a bullet as travels through a person’s body. The poster has become the subject of ridicule and anger among some gun rights advocates online, prompting parodies and responses such as this one, which was shared more than 50,000 times on Facebook. It’s not clear what are the precise origins of the photograph on the left, or where it was taken. ![]() |
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