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The Grumpy Edinburgh, November 2005, 1178 Words

The American Edinburgh, October 2002, 919 Words





The Scotland that I know

It's a wee country above England! Aye and all the guys wear skirts and throw tree trunks around! Or so the English say! Americans love nothing better than to buy a skirt and tell the world that their great grandfathert twice removed was of the Macdonald Clan. The Japs would love to say the same but belief would be hard coming.

Its cold, its windy but also sunny and warm! Above and beyond at the Northern most point lies the Orkneys, a place were one would not live by choice, down through the highlands were sheep live amongst English Immigrants who open coffee shops to the Lowlands were concrete and strife take over from openness and people with accents that nobody can understand.

As Tony Handcock the comedian once said when asking a scotsman for directions, "he coughed and spluttered for half an hour and then left"!

Best known for its whisky made from the pure waters of the rivers that course the lands, the haggis that is much revered yet really just a tourist gimick and its porridge in the kitchen drawer, the Scottish today remain strong at home and abroad! From British Politics to Drilling for oil in Brunei, from relief aid in Tuvalu to building bridges in Hong Kong a Scotsman or Scotswoman will be at the forefront taking all that is Scottish abroad as ambassadors do for their country.

Ken what I mean?



Ieuan Dolby
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