I’ve been titillating my insomnia with a local history book kindly provided by my dad. It’s called A Salmon for the Schoolhouse and charts the day to day concerns of a 19th century schoolmaster in the village where I grew up. Surprisingly, it seems that schoolmasters of yore were just as plagued by HM Inspectorate as [...]
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I’ve come home to roost for a while, which means lots of long walks in spectacular woods. Autumn hasn’t even begun to arrive in this part of the Highlands, so everything is still lush and green. My mental map of the area is not what it was, and so today I got quite spectacularly lost. My [...] The magnificent word ‘wow‘ is derived from the Scots ‘wow’. Who knew? But try saying it out loud in your best Glaswegian twang and you’ll soon see that it must be true. Lesser-known Scottish Delights [...] |
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