Scots Goblin
The blether
Scottish history, words we have stopped using, customs that quietly vanished, and whatever has annoyed me this week. The full pieces live on Substack, comments and all.
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A&E Doesn't Do Thank Yous. Here's One Anyway.
He turned twelve the day before, spent the first day of his tattie holidays in A&E, and came out mended and laughing. Busy, kind staff, getting the... 10 Oct 02Orange Lorry Stolen. Can Be Seen From the Moon.
Somebody drove off with twenty-two tonnes of Irn-Bru in the brightest wagon in Britain, and Police Scotland want you to look out for a suspicious... 10 Oct 03Born Into the Peace, Killed in the War
He was born eighteen days after the First World War ended. He was killed in the second. 5 Oct 04The Medals in the Drawer
A wee brown box, a war grave in Tuscany, and a name nobody in the family has said out loud. 4 Oct 05The Tattie Holidays: When the Bairns Got Two Weeks Off to Work
Every October, Scottish schools shut for a fortnight. And the reason isn't rest. It's potatoes. 30 Sep 06The Highland Midgie: Scotland's Most Hated Inhabitant
Two millimetres of pure spite. It lives here, it waits for the worst weather, and it strikes at dusk. And we've built a whole industry round escaping... 22 Sep
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