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Nobody Move: He’s Calling Edinburgh

There is a particular sort of patience required on a Highland single-track road in August. Mr Gunn possesses it, although I should say there are limits. We were on our way to the ironmonger, a perfectly ordinary journey which should have taken perhaps twenty minutes, when we came round a bend and found a motorhome directly in front of us, with what appeared to be most of western Europe parked behind it. It was not one of the modest little campervans you occasionally see tucked neatly beside a loch, but a tremendous white vehicle with bicycles on the back, curtains

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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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American Coffee and Other Emergencies

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I was back at the wee fish shop somewhere between Thurso and Scrabster last Thursday, minding my own business, as I generally am when other people happen to be speaking loudly enough for me to hear them. Effie was standing by the haddock having a very quiet conversation with Elspeth. It was one of those conversations conducted at precisely the volume required to make every woman within twelve feet immediately interested. They both stopped talking when they saw me coming. I looked at Effie. I looked at Elspeth. “Well, spit it out,” I said. “What’s the matter?” Effie sighed. “Elspeth
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Ancient Scotland

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Martin McCarthy has been taking photographs of Scotland’s landscape since 1993 and selflessly documenting Scotland’s ancient sites online since 1995. Based out of Glasgow, McCarthy left his computer business to become a full-time photographer in 2007. McCarthy’s story is evidence that when people follow their passions, all of us benefit. His website is modest, but he’s done a fantastic job organizing thousands of photos. Visitors can browse by list or map, and both are equally easy to navigate. What makes his site especially useful, however, is that he’s linked photos together based on location and distance. Click on any photograph