Bonjour Marie-Agnes, Janice et Jean-Claude – Ca va bien? – How are you all today? 🙂 Margaret and I love to read all the letters you send us, so full of kindness and bonhomie! Our readers here at Scotiana may not know that your letters are in fact doubly charming, for they are always illustrated! (As you have often … Continue reading →
Dear readers, Today, in our quest of the best of Scotland, I invite you to discover the Orkney Islands, one of our favourite Scottish places. There is something magical in these islands of the North, something different than in mainland Scotland. In sharing our pictures with you I’ll try to give you an idea of the beauty of the … Continue reading →
Hi Mairiuna, Having written down as part of my New Year’s resolutions to dedicate time each month for viewing Scotland related films, I’d like to share with you some of the titles on my list. Top and foremost, I’ll watch again BRAVE by Disney – Pixar as it’s visual magic and stunning storytelling simply carries me away! The subjects of … Continue reading →
Dear readers, I’m very happy to be back on the keyboard to share with you new pictures, new stories, new books about our beloved Scotland. Time flies. January is already ending though, in the south west of France, we’re still waiting for the arrival of winter. The skye is as blue today as in a summer day and I … Continue reading →
Happy New Year to all our friends in Scotland and around the world! Haste ye back, we loue you dearly, Call again you’re welcome here. May your days be free from sorrow, And your friends be ever near. May the paths o’er which you wander, Be to you a joy each day. Haste ye back we loue you dearly, Haste … Continue reading →
Many thanks and a big bear hug to Nathalie & Jean for their lovely interpretation of Jingle Bells !!! Jean, my grandson, who just turned 9 last month, started to learn English at his primary school in Toulouse. Hear him sing Jingle Bells accompanied by his mother Nathalie on her metallophone and helped by Fabien his father and Ronan … Continue reading →
Dear readers, I’d better hurry if I want to give you one or two more ideas of books to offer at Christmas for we can already hear the merry sound of the jingle bells of Santa Claus’s sleigh. We are leaving tomorrow for our holiday in the family, a round trip of more than 2000 km and I’ve still … Continue reading →
Dear readers, The book I’ve chosen today for our Christmas selection is Scotland, A History from Earliest Times by Alistair Moffat. It is the author’s last published book and a very good choice for people who love Scotland and more especially the history of Scotland. I had already downloaded the book on my kindle but the beautiful hardback edition … Continue reading →
Gather the bairns and the grown folk and set sail for a fine collection of Scottish tales retold by a master storyteller! Williamson was celebrated for a lifetime of traveling the byways of Scotland, collecting and telling tales. In these 18 stories, broonies, fairies and, of course, a unicorn cross paths with common folk on a regular basis. There’s a … Continue reading →
‘A mind amongst books, like fire in the heather’ Books ! Books ! Books ! Wigtown, the famous Scottish book town situated in Dumfries & Galloway, is certainly one of our favourite places in Scotland ! Dear readers, You know how fond we are of books on Scotiana. Janice finds it harder and harder to cope with her … Continue reading →
Dear readers, Christmas time is quickly approaching now, so I’d better hurry to add a couple of books to Scotiana’s selection for Christmas. My problem is to choose among so many interesting books published in Scotland recently;-) A Drop in the Ocean, which I introduced in my last post, is a book which can certainly please all lovers of Scotland. … Continue reading →
“A watercolour painting hangs above my bed. A treasured possession, it depicts a Hebridean shoreline: turquoise, black, grey and moody, a surging sea with foaming waves leads the eye to the distinct shapes of Rum’s forbidding peaks. In the foreground there is another island. Muck, a place that has punctuated my thoughts since I was a child growing up … Continue reading →
At the end of last May, on our road from St Fillans to Glenturret Distillery (the famous “Grouse Experience”) and Drummond Gardens, as we were driving along loch Earn in a lovely area of Perthshire, we suddenly fell upon the enigmatic figure of an iron man emerging from the water like in a sci-fi film … We stopped and … Continue reading →
In every form or shape, the unicorn has always fascinated me and thus, I have gathered many collectables over the years, be it stamps, figurines, book covers, illustrations, postcards, photos…you name it! So, it is with great pleasure that I take this opportunity to share with you some of my findings throughout my numerous quests and more particularly of the … Continue reading →
