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Stamp Collecting with George Mackay Brown

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Hi and welcome back !

While chatting with my dear friend Mairiuna about stamp collecting, a topic we love to share upon as we are both fans of those miniature work of art, she mentioned George Mackay Brown’s interest in collecting stamps.

By all means! Having travelled through many of his books I was surprised […]

May 31st, 2022 | Tags: , , , | Category: Philately | Leave a comment

A Selection of Scottish Authors & Books for Christmas 2021

How am I to sing your praise, Happy chimney-corner days, Sitting safe in nursery nooks, Reading picture story-books?

(Robert Louis Stevenson – From A Child’s Garden of Verses)

I could not have found more charming lines to introduce my new selection of books for Christmas than the above verses written by Robert […]

November 30th, 2021 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Books, Children's Literature, George Mackay Brown, Robert Louis Stevenson | Leave a comment

The Best of Scotland: Orkney Islands…

 

Ferry crossing to Orkney © 2003 Scotiana

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 […]

March 7th, 2016 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Landscapes, Orkney, Scottish Landscapes, Travelling Scotland | One comment

Great Scottish books to read by the fireside…

Source : Le coffre aux images de Kate

 

As Father Christmas is already driving his heavily loaded reindeer-drawn sleigh across the icy territories of his faraway country I’m very busy preparing the festivities of the end of the Year, dreaming of a vivifying walk in the countryside or […]

December 21st, 2012 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Books | Leave a comment

The story of St Magnus Cathedral in seven paintings…

 

St Magnus Kirk*, Egilsay, Bob Jones 2009 – Wikimedia

A light that has once shone is never quenched. Can a diamond wither?

(George Mackay Brown – Magnus)

St Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall, Orkney. – Source Wikimedia

 

Hi everybody !

How the martyrdom of earl Magnus and […]

November 28th, 2012 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Abbeys & Churches, Orkney | Leave a comment
 
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