Travelblog (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
St Andrews Scotland Sept 3 2009Sept. 3rd was to be our day of travel to St Andrews a 5 train ride which turned into a 10 ride. First there was problems with the wires ahead of the train next there was flooding near Dunbar and trains going north to Scotland were being turned back after some delay the passengers from earlier trains were transferred to ours and we made it past Dunbar. How
Lancaster Unity (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
Nick Griffin didn’t speak to many Scots when he visited Glasgow last week Two men in crisp suits are standing outside the stylish Corinthian bar, nodding in a string of men and women, chatting to some as old friends. The pair are not bouncers – not any more – but members of the British National Party. Those entering are not regulars of the bar, but activists who have come to hear...
Suitably Despairing (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
It's that time of year again, when the most polluting companies and sites in Scotland are unveiled to astonished gasps - astonished in that a 5 year old could probably have guessed the top four! But what's this at number five in the list? A combined heat and power plant? While combining heat and power makes a plant more effective, it doesn't mean that the plant suddenly doesn't pollute. The good news...
crivens, jings and help ma blog (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
Map of Scotland by John Speed 1610 Adapted to avoid image of Royalty - printed 1660 First known representation of tartan in print Hullo ma wee blog, I have been thinking these past few days, as I take my lovely G to the railway station in Dunbar for her morning train to Edinburgh and her working day, about what topic I should choose for a post here. I got some really nice comments about my post on...
Suitably Despairing (Free subscription) | 15/10/2009
It's Blog Action Day today, with more than 7,000 bloggers around the world all talking about the one subject: climate change. So just to be different, I'll talk about Ancient Peruvian Art... Well, okay, maybe not! But I have been wondering this week whether I'm still as "despairing" as I was when I set up this blog a couple of years ago. Since then, we've had climate change legislation from...
Renfrewshire Ladies County Golf Association (Free subscription) | 15/10/2009
The SLGA has announced the following squads for their winter training programme and Megan Briggs, Eilidh Briggs, Alyson McKechin and Linsey Stevenson have all been selected to take part SLGA NATIONAL PERFORMANCE SQUAD Carly Booth (Comrie), Megan Briggs (Kilmacolm), Louise Kenney (Pitreavie), Kelsey MacDonald (Nairn Dunbar), Laura Murray (Alford), Pamela Pretswell (Bothwell Castle), Jane Turner (Craigielaw),...
A Very British Dude (Free subscription) | 12/10/2009
The SNP have looked like delusional morons again, this time regarding defence matters . The SNP are convinced that English troops will remain on Scottish soil post independence. You know, like when they used to do after Culloden, Methven, Berwick, Dunbar, Falkirk, Flodden et all. Only this time there will be no face paint, Anti-Semitic Australians in tartan hats or sharp objects involved. Angus Robertson...
3:AM Magazine (Free subscription) | 04/10/2009
It's Gallagher's contention that an independent Scotland under Salmond's SNP could end up as a self-contained version of the top-down exploitation the country suffered under empire. The lesson goes beyond Scotland. Too often an anti-imperialist position ignores the gulf of power within a country, which can be as wide as that between conqueror and conquered. It doesn't always recognise that anti-imperialism...
Ladies Club Golf News around the West of Scotland (Free subscription) | 01/10/2009
Scotland captain Pamela Williamson holds the Sue Johnson Trophy, won by Scotland for the first time. - Click to enlarge (Image Courtesy of the LGU) Back row (left to right): Noreen Fenton (Dunbar), Kathleen Sutherland (Royal Montrose), Fiona Hunter (Baberton), Moira Thomson (Gullane Ladies), Fiona De Vries (St Rule), team manager Janet Wake. Front row (l to r): Mary Smith (Tain), Pamela Williamson...
James Gunn Photography (Free subscription) | 28/09/2009
Michael MacDonald, Halkirk, was successful in the MacNab Challenge yesterday. Derived from a famous 1925 book by John Buchan entitled "John MacNab" the challenge is to bag a stag, brace of grouse and a salmon, all on the same day. Michael raised around £2,300 that will be split between two charities; Alzheimer's Scotland: The Couthie Corner, Thurso Palliative Care, Dunbar Hospital,...
Scottish Veteran Ladies' Golf Association (West... (Free subscription) | 21/09/2009
Scotland team for senior women's home internationals Scotland team for next week's Senior Women's Home Internationals at Newport Golf Club, Wales(September 29 to October 1): Captain - Pamela Williamson Manager - Janet Wake Heather Anderson (Alyth) Lorna Bennett (Ladybank) Fiona de Vries (St Rule) Noreen Fenton (Dunbar) Fiona Hunter (Baberton) Mary Smith (Tain) Moira Thomson (Gullane Ladies) Reserves...
Ladies Club Golf News around the West of Scotland (Free subscription) | 18/09/2009
LADIES GOLF UNON News Release 2010 GB & I CURTIS CUP SQUAD The following players have been named in the GB & I squad as part of the preparation for the 36th Curtis Cup match which will be played at Essex County Club, Massachusetts from June 11 to 13, 2010. Hannah BARWOOD (Knowle ) ENGLAND Age 19 Carly BOOTH (Comrie ) SCOTLAND Age 17 Amy BOULDEN (Maesdu) WALES Age 16 Gemma BRADBURY (Cottrell...
Brit Lit Blogs (Free subscription) | 16/09/2009
By Max Dunbar. Transition , Iain Banks, Little, Brown 2009 There was always a clear delineation between Iain Banks’s mainstream and science fiction, but you still feel there’s a link somewhere. In his literary fiction, Banks constantly pushed at the borders of the real, exploiting the possibilities of geology, consciousness and human craftmanship to create considerable mortal marvels....
The Daily Record (Free subscription) | 16/09/2009
SCOTLAND'S drinks industry has been hit by another blow after the owners of Belhaven announced they were closing the firm's Dunbar bottling plant.
AfriClassical (Free subscription) | 14/09/2009
[Photos, from the top: Richard Thompson, Alice Ruth Moore and Paul Laurence Dunbar] John Malveaux has brought to our attention “The Mask in the Mirror”, a chamber opera by Richard Thompson , a Black pianist and composer born in Scotland. Its subject is the courtship and marriage of the celebrated African American poet Paul Laurence Dunbar and Alice Ruth Moore. Byron Singleton plays the...
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