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When Does a Visitor Become Taxable?

I have been reading about the proposed Highland Visitor Levy, and I have questions. This will surprise nobody who knows me. I have questions about most things. I once kept a washing-machine engineer in the kitchen for forty minutes because he said the noise was “within normal parameters” and I wanted to know whose normal parameters we were discussing. The Highland Council is consulting on a visitor levy which, if eventually approved, could mean a charge of £5 per room per night for hotels, B&Bs and similar accommodation, and £2 for hostels, campsites and caravan parks. This sounds straightforward. Nothing

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Skirret, or Crummock, the Sweet Root Scotland Forgot

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Before the potato became ordinary, and before sugar became cheap, there was skirret. In Scotland it was known as crummock, a word recorded in Scots for the plant Sium sisarum. The Dictionaries of the Scots Language give Scottish references from the early eighteenth century, including Orkney in 1701 and an account book entry from 1703 listing “crumocks” among kitchen-garden produce. The same source notes the word in Older Scots from 1693 and connects it with Gaelic crumag. Skirret is a perennial root vegetable in the carrot family, Apiaceae. It produces clusters of long, pale, finger-like roots rather than one neat
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When Your Cupboard Joins National Security

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I have always kept food in the house, because I was brought up properly and because the weather in Scotland has never once asked permission before making a nuisance of itself. There are tins in the cupboard, batteries in a drawer, candles in the hall cabinet, and a torch that works provided nobody has taken the batteries out for a remote control and then looked innocent when questioned. There is tea. There is soup. There are oatcakes. There is usually enough in the house to survive a power cut, a blocked road, or a sudden visit from someone who says
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Scottish Brick History

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The Roman occupation of Scotland in first century AD brought brick-making skills to the Scots. Before the industrial revolution all bricks in Scotland were moulded by hand, a long process which began with the excavation of clay in autumn and ended the following summer when the bricks were fired in small kilns. One of the first industrial buildings to be built from bricks in Scotland was Stanley Mills in Perthshire, followed shortly after by numerous cotton mills in Glasgow. The Scottish Brick History website is a growing index of brickmarks, the distinct markings that identify where bricks were produced. These