Scotiana

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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 [...]

 
Every year, it comes as a surprise.
The leaves flare, for a time, to crimson and butter yellow,
the air shifts, in the early morning,
from te damp greens of late summer to soft graphites and an occasional miraculous quail grey.
(John Burnside – A Lie About My Father)
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Leaves fall in the garden and it’s [...]

 
 
 
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Without our last message from Iain and Margaret, it would certainly have escaped us that today was the anniversary of the death of Frédéric Chopin, nor would we  have known that this genial composer owed so much to a Scottish lady who, in the last and painful years of his short life, looked after [...]

A short 30-minute journey from Edinburgh’s Bathgate railway station brings you to the small Scottish village of Blackburn, where resides Susan Boyle, who became, only six months ago, following her performance at “Britain’s Got Talent” TV show in London,  a worldwide acclaimed star.
It’s been a while now that folks at the local Happy Valley Hotel Pub have [...]

Upon viewing a documentary on TV about the medieval harp, master carver John Donaldson sprung off his seating when he heard narrator mention that in earlier historical periods, zero’s and one’s were utilized to form music descriptives.
This fact would explain the particular pattern of one of the oak wooden medallion-shaped that he was [...]