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When Your Cupboard Joins National Security

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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Vintage Dundee Gingerbread

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NOTE: This is a vintage Scottish recipe from the WW2 era where eggs were often replaced with dried eggs. If you would rather use 1 fresh egg, add it to step 3 right before you add the fruit. You will need: – 3 cup fulls of flour – 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon – 2 oz. butter – 3 tablespoonfuls syrup – 1 tablespoonful dried egg (or 1 fresh egg) – 1 teaspoonful of ground ginger – 1 teacupful of milk – 4 tablespoonsful of treacle – 1 teaspoonful of baking soda – 6 oz. fruit (if desired) Method: 1. Put
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Prince Harry and the Difficulty Of Coming Back After A Grand Exit

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I first heard that Prince Harry was coming back on the village WhatsApp group. At 7.36 on Thursday morning, Morag posted: PRINCE HARRY IS COMING HOME. There were no details. This was immediately a problem. Effie replied: To Scotland? Morag said: Britain. Elspeth: For good? Morag: Apparently. Agnes: Has he still got a house? Nobody knew. Then Jean, who has an admirable instinct for the practical difficulty hidden inside every international event, wrote: He’ll need a kettle. American ones are different. I had not yet had breakfast. I put my phone face down and made tea. The reports, when I
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Women in Scottish History

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Women in Scottish History, or WISH, is a project funded and developed by the University of Guelph, and it’s a fascinating effort that originally launched in 2000. The WISH database strives to collect and maintain four types of Scottish records, including: – Bibliographies of Scottish Women – Biographies of Scottish women – Documents relating to the Women in Scottish History – A list of researchers specializing in the field of Women in Scottish History The database can be searched by keywords or by selecting a specific date range. While it’s not the easiest archive to navigate, the hunt is well