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00:00Where are you?
00:07She was a district nurse there for 8 years.
00:14Who are the Picts?
00:19Where did they come from?
00:29Because I was quite small, she would actually take me with her and I would just stay in
00:33the south quarters and I would get fed in the kitchen.
00:36When people are working with animals and surrounded by the openness here, it's a massive improvement
00:41for their well-being.
00:42Who are the Picts?
00:46What did they do?
01:02I am Ishbal Macrae's niece.
01:05So I'm interested in finding a way to remember her and what she meant to the community.
01:09I don't remember a time before Ishbal was there.
01:13She was always there.
01:17Take this wound that I offer you, keep it close and love it well.
01:29Who were the Picts?
01:31How were they destroyed?
01:34Phone lines had to come down in the gale.
01:38We needed the midwife for Kali, my sister.
01:42I saw Ishbal.
01:44She drove Kali and me to Pope Cottage.
01:47They say we die every day, that the you we were yesterday is gone, we no longer exist.
02:12Death and decay were very important to the later prehistoric Scots.
02:23The consumption of flesh by birds was seen as releasing the person's spirit.
02:40We are our own ancestors, we are constantly passing down heirlooms, legacies and curses
03:09to ourselves every time we fall asleep.
03:15We die every day, be kind to yourself, make the most out of today, so your yesterdays
03:21can be proud of your tomorrows.