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What will be will be.
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BIRL v, n spin, whirl The first unequivocal quotation with birl in the sense of spin appears in 1790 in David Morison Poems: “The temper pin she gi’es a tirl, An’ spins but …
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Occasionally someone comes along who is very perceptive. Someone with something simple but profound to say. Artist Róisín Gallagher who hails from Falkirk is just such a person. In her project …
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Hugh McMillan is a poet from Penpont in South West Scotland. His work has been published widely in Scotland and beyond, and he has won various prizes, most recently the Callum Macdonald Memorial Award …
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We hear aboot fit’s in the new online anthology Best Scottish Poems 2019 fae the Scottish Poetry Library. An in an extended interview - writer, musician, producer, composer, Freeland Barbour …
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Gossip grows as it is transmitted
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It was 160 years ago this month, on 9 May 1860, that James Matthew Barrie was born at Kirriemuir in Angus. Remembered today as the ‘Peter Pan man’, a story which has delighted children …
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SKITE v dart, shoot through the air, fall or be driven in a slanting directionSkite is one of these Scots words that defies translation into English. We find it used of the unimpeded slanting …
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Janet Thomson was born in Shotts parish in 1795, the daughter of James Thomson and Mary Brownlee. At the age of seven her family moved to Langloan in Old Monkland parish and she remained there the rest …
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John Goldie was born in Ayr in 1798 and was educated at the academy there. He later went to Paisley and then Glasgow where he owned a china and stoneware shop. In 1819 he joined the volunteer rifle corps …