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May the bells of Happiness ring merrily for you at Christmas.
Nollaig chridheil agus Bliadhna mhath ùr! ( Merry Christmas!  in Gaelic)

Festive Greetings
From everyone at Scotiana, we wish you and yours a happy holiday and a healthy and prosperous new year. We are honored to have you as loyal readers and truly look forward to blogging along with [...]

 
 
Joyeux Noël à tous !!!
Santa Claus will very soon be at our doorstep or should I say up on the roof, ready to drop precious little presents into our chimney, ‘wee surprises’ as Iain and Margaret would say . Why not read or re-read some good Scottish Christmas stories while waiting for him? [...]

 
 
Here fond affection
rears its sculpted stone…
(from John Henry Alexander’s epitaph – Glasgow Necropolis)
 
“CEMETERIES ARE FOR THE LIVING. Sure, the dead are the permanent residents and the living merely visitors but the Necropolis and every other burying ground in the world were imagined, designed and built for the benefit of other living people. Time, as [...]

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On this beautiful sunshined day, while reading away stories from Celtic Life -  25th Anniversary Special Edition which compiles the “Best of the Best” articles published in the last quarter century,  a title grabbed my fullest attention: Child Slaves From Scotland; A Story rarely told .   !!??
 
 
Written back in 2001 by Douglas MacGowan, it’s an [...]

 
Bonjour Janice, Marie-Agnès et Jean-Claude  -  Hello again from Scotland!
Marie-Agnès and Jean-Claude, do you still have a subscription to The Scots Magazine, the famous journal first published in 1739?
We don’t have one ourselves, but were interested to find that the October 2011 issue contained a number of features on music in Scotland. Amongst [...]