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First Minister, John Swinney, on Jeane Freeman, The Herald, 8 February 2026: Transcript of some of the interview with John Swinney on Radio Scotland: Laura Maciver, presenter of Radio Scotland … Continue reading Jeane Freeman Values
Robert Black, 1875-1946, was a lad o’pairts. He should be known better and deserves to be properly remembered. Here I share a timeline of some of his extraordinary life: 5 … Continue reading Scottish Flying Machine
16 May 1843, Northern Warder: This calotype portrait is of William Robertson, ‘sub-editor of the Witness’. It was taken by Hill & Adamson in Edinburgh. Trove archive states that ‘it … Continue reading Death of The Witness
David Robinson with Alexander McCall Smith: a few passages from yesterday’s Scotsman :
I recently read ‘The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh‘ as edited by Michael Davie. What is shared below is a small selection of entries, often partial, which do not present the … Continue reading Diaries of Evelyn Waugh
The following, terribly sad newspaper account, is from January 1898. On my next wee adventure I intend to visit Glen Lyon and on the bridge to Dalchiorlich will chalk a … Continue reading Lost on the Perthshire Hills
A dear friend of mine recently shared with me some of the contents of a family album that was kept by her mother and Granny. On one page of the … Continue reading ‘a picture to delight the artist’
This is a sad story of the early death of Alex Gordon of Balnaut, Crathie [please note: Alex is not a relation of mine] Daily Express, 19 March 1962: 26 … Continue reading A village mourns