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Ian Hamilton and Scotland’s Stone of Destiny ..

Bonjour Marie-Agnes, Janice et Jean-Claude ! 🙂 Hello again from Scotland !

Is there, I wonder, any more romantic story in all of our country’s modern history than the tale of ‘The Stone’ – how at Christmas 1950 Ian Hamilton (b.1925) and some young friends removed Scotland’s Stone of Destiny from Westminster Abbey to […]

September 12th, 2021 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Letters From Scotland, Uncategorized | 10 comments

“Where Duty Lies .. .. “

 

 

George’s dog learning the tricks of the trade © Scotiana

Working dogs, careless of their own safety, ignore danger on the roads. It’s always with an immense pleasure that we receive a new Letter from Scotland so kindly written by Iain and Margaret. Each ‘letter’ is a wonderful gem, a true […]

April 10th, 2015 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Animal stories, Letters From Scotland | One comment

Summer Reading: Alexander McCall Smith’s 44 Scotland Street

 

 

'Girl stands in a field reading her book' Harold Knight (1874-1961)

 

Hi everybody!

With autumn already touching our gardens and woods with its warm colours, it may seem a little late to write a page about “summer reading” but isn’t it a good idea to make […]

August 27th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Alexander McCall Smith, Authors, Books | Leave a comment

Scotiana’s First Ten “Letters from Scotland” !

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 as Dylan Thomas, Muir […]

May 31st, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | Category: Letters From Scotland, Miscarriage of Justice, Oscar Slater | Leave a comment

Our Top 15 Most Popular Posts!

Mairiuna, before the New Year ramps up, why not investigate about our most popular posts to see what are our readers’ favourite subjects?

Let’s see what the stats reveal. Suspense….

And the winners are :

Rannoch Moor ©2006 Scotiana

1. Rannoch Moor: First Steps Into The Scottish Wilderness

People seemed to be […]

January 10th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment
 
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