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    Summer Reading: Alexander McCall Smith’s 44 Scotland Street

     
     
     
    Hi everybody!
    With autumn already touching our gardens and woods with its warm colours, it may seem a little late to write a page about “summer reading” but isn’t it a good idea to make  summer last a little longer. Indeed, the Indian Summer is still to come, isn’t it Janice?
    But before embarking on our ”summer [...]

    The Leningrad Album, a Token of Scottish-Russian Friendship in War ..

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    Bonjour, Marie-Agnès, Jean-Claude et Janice! Ca va? – How are you today?
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    I wonder whether our readers have guessed that, as well as sending these occasional Letters from Scotland, Margaret and I correspond regularly with you by email? We write in English, Marie-Agnès and Jean-Claude in French, [...]

    15 August 2011: Sir Walter Scott’s 240th Birthday!


    Hi Mairiuna!
    While checking my agenda this morning, I noticed a scribble indicating that today was Sir Walter Scott’s birthday!
    I said to myself that we could not let this day go by without honouring our favorite scottish writer .  To celebrate his priceless legacy which had such a great impact on historical fiction and  upon so [...]