Scotiana

 
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Bonjour Marie-Agnès, Jean-Claude et Janice! Hello again, how are you? 
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Thank you for all your help in finding illustrations for our last Letter from Scotland (‘Daft Pate’ Macmillan of Courthill Smithy, Pioneer of the Pedal-Driven Bicycle).
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We’re very pleased that “Kevin 76′s” (presumably a cycling enthusiast) should make available his excellent photographs from Keir Mill by posting them at flickr. It all helps to [...]

 
 
‘Books!’ says Tuppence in Agatha  Christie’s Postern of Fate
(Chapter 1: ‘Mainly Concerning Books’)

“Is there anything I can take down for you?”
“Well, I wish you would”, said Tuppence. “I’m falling off those chairs. Some of their legs are very wobbly, some of them rather slippery.”
”Any book in particular?”
”Well, I haven’t got on very far with the [...]

 
Bonjour Marie-Agnès, Janice et Jean-Claude! Ca va? – How are you? 
We’d like to tell the story today of the quiet, diffident Scotsman who is generally accepted as the inventor of the bicycle; but first, please let us say how thrilled we were  to see the excellent photos you’d taken at Gretna, in the [...]

After reading Iain’s such informative article  “Married at Gretna Green!“, I simply could not resist to google away in search of philatelic collectibles about this very unique romantic little town.
Results from the Web were fascinating and I’m excited to share some examples with you today.

Great-Britain, First Issue of Occasions stamps, Set of 5 , 2001

On BFDC ‘s [...]

I would like to begin this post with a few words about Lettres de Gourgounel (1979), one of the first books written by Kenneth White (his first book of prose) and also the first book I‘ve read by this author. The title of the original English edition is Letters from Gourgounel (1966) but it has [...]