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By Snow-Leavis Posted on May 9, 2019May 9, 2019

Hame

So you think you know what it is to be Scottish? Well, read ‘Hame’ by Annalena MacAfee. It is a lovely book. This is my “Review”:

Categories: Architecture, Bridge of Allan, Family history, Omphalos films, Orchards, Philosophy, Poems, Royal Deeside, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: a vulgar eloquence, abandoned, actual or potential attitudes, actual or potential selves, Alexander McCall Smith, Andrew Robert Gordon, angel, Annalena McAfee, antidepressants, beautiful summer, belonging, Bovaglie, Bridge of Allan, Built on the Clyde, Bundle and Go, By living we learn, Cabrach, Caledonian Antisyzygy, Camlet, clearance, clinterty, Craighall castle, deserted, dialect, Drumdruills, Drumdruils, duthchas, Edinburgh, Fascaray, Flight of ideas, frae weans to auld wans, Gaelic, Gamrie, garden, Gauch, Girnoc, Girnock, Hame, herring, Hole Ousia, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Ian McEwan, Intensely Local, island, James Ross, Little Sparta, Loch Awe, lucidity, magpie, Margaret Scott, Mavisbank, Morbus Fascariensis, Mossgrove, mountains, My notebook will be better than a doctor, Nan Shepherd, Omphalos, Ou Phrontis, Patrick Geddes, Poems, poet in a landscape, poetry, poetry and identity, Rab Scott, Rachel Fiona Gordon, rainbow, Repeats its love, ruins, Scotland, Scottishness, She gangs in brawness, she shows colours upon colours, silver darlings, The Antiquary, The present order is the disorder of the future, The Rebel Antiquary, the sky is not little, These are the hands, Tower of Glenstrae, Transparency, Two Cultures, un-scottish style, Vivendo Discimus, watergaw

By Snow-Leavis Posted on May 5, 2018May 7, 2018

Leading to an orchard

Stuart and Margaret Gordon.

Categories: Family history, This is Not yesterdayTags: David Steuart Erskine, Gartmore, Margaret Scott, orchard, parentibus suis optimus, Stuart Gordon

By Snow-Leavis Posted on Jun 25, 2017November 23, 2017

The birds are singing in the orchard

I have just read The Cherry Orchard, a play by Anton Chekhov. I was moved by it. My mind was taken back to my childhood: to Drumdruills and the orchards … Continue reading The birds are singing in the orchard

Categories: Family history, Orchards, This is Not yesterdayTags: Anton Pavlovitch Chekhov, Bridge of Allan, Carluke, Chekhov, Drumdruills, Drumdruils, Hill of Orchard, Jam, Margaret Scott, Marmalade, Orchards, R & W Scott, Rab Scott, Scott, The Cherry Orchard

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