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Beijing Bans Saltire
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/tayside_and_central/7541642.stm It appears that powers that be that rule the Olympics, in an effort to ban Tibet from displaying its flag, have also prohibited other...
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The Scots
You won’t believe this, but I made it and have witnesses. A half-side of salmon, skinned and boned. I covered it with scallop mousse and then zucchini half-rounds to look like fish scales. Cousin Steve...
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Melrose Abbey
I just found an unpublished post because I had trouble with the pictures that went along with the words. Got a postcard from Karen today, with whom I traversed at least the southern Scottish...
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We Came, We Ate, We Conquered…
Last year in our UK posting for ten weeks, my dad happened to be visiting Italy. We looked up all the cheap fares and finally got one over a weekend where Jim only had to take 1/2 day off work. This...
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Top Chef V
Sorry I’ve been away. A setting got changed on my computer and somehow I had no internet access for nearly 48 hours. Jim fixed it in about 20 seconds. But I don’t even know what my settings are and...
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Practice
The police department has a facility nearby. With the air conditions the way they are today, I’m hearing the trains come in and drums. They’re practicing. Hopefully it’s for a parade, not a funeral....
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R.I.P.
Last Friday Jim and his brother went fly fishing in the mountains (first time for both, no guide) and were gone over 13 hours. I wondered why they hadn’t called. Turns out even though I gave them...
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Rabbie and John
“The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men Gang aft agley, An’ lea’e us nought but grief an’ pain…” Robert Burns, “To a Mouse” The Bard and John Steinbeck shared common themes, especially in Steinbeck’s...
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Attention: Shoppers
Do not read this. I committed a grievous crime, more than one, actually, against the people of England and Scotland. Thank goodness my time there never induced me to commit similar infractions in Wales...
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Kottbullar
Yes, we had Swedish meatballs delivered yesterday, direct from Sweden. Our neighbor G also gave us dark chocolate-covered toffee called Dumle, and Bilar, tiny marshmallows shaped like cars. I’ll wait...
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The Ladies of Oban
We lived in Scotland a while and went to Oban one day hoping to get to an island offshore. We missed the boat by moments and toured this lovely town, had lunch and found a knittery where local ladies...
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