Notes from 60° north
For Christmas, I got a new pair of winter mitts. Handmade from a timber wolf pelt, they look like bear paws on my hands when
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I have just returned from a three month epic saga in my old home town of Glasgow. Eight weeks lost in the wilds of the
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It was cold here in Fort Smith, Northwest Territories, Canada last week. Really cold. So cold that even locals brought out their parkas and stopped
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Recently, in a triumph of common sense, a council in England under pressure from local parents forced a school to change a menu item from
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Weel, dis day has been a lang time in comin. For fower year A’m been tellin you my tochts an news ivery mont. Noo da
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Here I am, still in Glasgow, ensconced in the cut and thrust of rehearsals for Sleeping Beauty, this years panto at Glasgow’s Oran Mor. While
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It was with a wry smile that I read BT’s junk mail circular stuck through my letterbox last week, emblazoned with the question, “Does your
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Wid you believe it? Santie’s elves hiv been in Shetland dis mont, a top secret veesit. Whit a sook in I got when dey turned
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As the sun goes down over the Sound of Balta for the final time this year and the Shetland summer comes to as abrupt a
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Therty years is a blink in trowie time. I can mind da first edition o da Shetland Life laek hit wis yisterday. Feth, A’ll niver
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I currently have two mobile phone numbers, two email addresses, MySpace and Facebook profiles (I’m too old for Bebo), A BlogSpot Blog, a YouTube home
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Niver agaen. My first veesit tae a hairdressers has been a disaster. A’ll be wearin a toorie for weeks. A’m ey been dat prood o
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Dis summer Meenie insisted we wirna raikin awa. “Wi fower peerie trows hit’s an ontak,” she said. “Mind hoo wabbit du wis eftir we traiked
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With the school year started, my far superior half is back at work “learnin’ the bairns art,” and I am once again a full time
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