Scotiana

One of George Mackay Brown’s favourite words was marvellous.  He used it about the weather, his friends, music, the Dounby Show, the landscape, and about his penn’orth of sweeties and The Hotspur comic for boys.  He thought it an intense word, shorthand for the kind of state described by poets such [...]

Day after day, in our quest of Scotland, we go deeper and deeper into that fascinating country and like hungry pilgrims on a never ending path we discover new horizons at each turn. So, let us walk on, listening on the road to what people say and write there…
If you could see my library, you [...]

“The strange human craving for the pleasure of feeling afraid….”
(Virginia Woolf – The Common Reader)

We’re not of the kind to discriminate against anybody, so let us  share our readings with this old guy relaxing in his armchair, or… is it a “she” ? This venerable person must have a lot of thrilling stories to tell [...]