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Clothes Don’t Make The Woman

I had finished afternoon tea at a lovely establishment in the Highlands and was sitting on a bench outside, waiting for Mr Gunn. It had been a very satisfactory afternoon tea. The sandwiches had been small enough to suggest refinement, the cakes had been large enough to restore confidence, and the bill had been folded discreetly inside a little leather wallet so that one could discover the consequences in private. Mr Gunn had gone to fetch the car. This sounds like a simple undertaking, but Mr Gunn does not merely fetch a car. He checks it. He walks around it.

Scotland In Focus

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A Simple Cullen Skink Recipe

Cullen skink takes its name from a town on the Moray coast and from an older Scots word for soup. Made with smoked haddock, potatoes, onion and milk, it remains one of Scotland’s clearest examples of a dish shaped by place, work and necessity. Its history belongs to the north-east fishing coast, where smoked fish, harbour life and the ordinary discipline of feeding a household turned simple ingredients into one of Scotland’s most recognisable bowls. There is a town called Cullen on the Moray coast, and from that town came one of Scotland’s best-known soups. Cullen skink is made, in
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The TARDIS Is Now Scotland’s Most Reliable Form Of Public Transport

On Thursday evening, the King and Queen arrived in Glasgow by TARDIS. This was encouraging. For years, those of us living in the Highlands have been told that distance is a difficult problem. It affects buses, trains, broadband engineers, hospital appointments, postal deliveries and anyone attempting to obtain a replacement part for a washing machine. The general impression has been that the north of Scotland lies beyond the practical limits of organised movement. We now know this is untrue. The answer is a blue police box capable of travelling through time and space. This is considerably more efficient. Naturally, it
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Scots Words and Place-Names

Do you know the difference between a skellie and a skerrie or a smiddie and a souter? Or that wast is west and waster is wester? No? Then this website will help you out of the wuid and through the yett. Scots Words and Place-names (SWAP) is a simple but highly useful website created through the collaboration of several organizations, including the University of Glasgow, the National e-Science Centre (NeSC), the Scottish Place-Name Society and Jisc. The project concluded in 2011, but its database is timeless. The glossary itself is only 8 pages long, but it’s fully searchable and each