Monthly Archives: April 2019
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Posted: April 30, 2019Read more »
Scotch and Its Importance –
Industry Thriving
If you ever wonder what a contribution the Scotch whisky industry makes to the economic health of the nation then wonder no more. Scotch whisky contributed 21% to the value of all UK food and drink exports. Scotch exports were worth £4.7bn and the industry supports 42,000 jobs, including 10,500 directly employed in Scotland and 7,000 in rural areas. And...
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Posted: April 30, 2019Read more »
Kiltie Pleasures -
Cause We Can
Ages ago I remember liking the film Tunes of Glory, so when it popped up on my Amazon subscription I started to watch it thinking it would be as well made as I remember. The cast would have been stellar back in 1960 when it was made. There was Alec Guinness as Major Jock Sinclair, John Mills as Lieutenant Colonel Basil Barrow, Dennis Price as Major Charlie Scott, and...
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Posted: April 30, 2019Read more »
A Bit of a Dog –
Neolithic Orkney Hounded
The head of a dog that lived on Orkney in the Neolithic Period some 4,500 years ago has been recreated in what experts believe is the world’s first canine forensic reconstruction. The first question is when was the Neolithic period and what kind of people lived in it? Well it was the period of history that spanned from circa 4000 to circa 2,500 BCE. Now after...
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Posted: April 30, 2019Read more »
Tied to the Sleeper-
New Look Rail Service for Scotland
In the 1980s I had to work in London and when I wanted to come back to Scotland it was my delight to take the sleeper. I wasn’t great at plane travelling at the time, I’ve got over it since but it related to a rock climbing incident on wet sandstone and the vertigo was immense. So making the trudge back up north was a long business. Luckily the...
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Posted: April 23, 2019Read more »
Holiday Scorcher Over
Back to the Grind
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Posted: April 05, 2019Read more »
Oligarchs and Others –
Scotch Whisky Now a Safe Haven
I don’t know about you, but for this Christmas I got a few bottles of fine Scotch to enjoy throughout the year and for anyone that knows me well it is a great standby gift that will never get wasted and never get neglected. It seems that that rule also applies to the super rich and the despots of foreign countries who are stashing their ill gotten...
