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Don’t stand in my way

I love these passing human vignettes which an author could easily edit out for not being central to the story,...

Scottish: no, not the man who keeps asking you for huge chunks of your hard-earned money. This refers to a...

Scottish: this seems to be bound up with many place names and to refer to an old church which, for...

Machair refers to low-lying arable or grazing land formed near the coast by the deposit of sand and shell fragments...

This sweeping and damning judgement of England, found entirely wanting, is contrasted with the simplicity of the source, the radio.

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Here is a long winded anecdote, no doubt embellished in the re-telling, which you can stash away in your own...

Scottish. An agricultural system whereby each year narrow strips of arable land were parcelled out among the families of the...

Scottish Gaelic: plural clàran. A dish, three to four feet long, 18" wide, made of deal, with straw or grass...