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Did you discover what the Earth peo (Free subscription) | yesterday
This appears to be a few years old, but I hadn't seen it until a couple of days ago, when it was in a TV ad break. Perhaps it's only shown in Scotland. It's superb, anyway. :) Irn Bru is, of course, a superb drink, and Scotland is the only country in the world where a locally-produced soft drink outsells Coca Cola. It's your patriotic duty to drink Irn Bru here - not liking it is tantamount to treason....
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News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
IRN-BRU-loving Russians have been enjoying the very best of what Edinburgh has to offer on the back of a marketing drive to highlight Scotland.
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Only One Gizmo, Thank God! (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Dundee took all the awards for October as Jocky Scott got manager of the month, Tony Bullock got player of the month, he has been outstanding, and again Leigh Griffiths got young player. Dundee FC striker Leigh Griffiths has been named in the Scotland Under-21 squad for the European Championship qualifier in Azerbaijan. The 19-year-old has been rewarded for scoring ten times for the Dens Park side,...
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Andrew Reeves' running blog (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
Well, there were shocks and strange decisions yesterday at the Scottish Liberal Democrats conference in Dunfermline. According to the media, we were holding it behind closed doors to keep the splits private, erm wrong, it was behind closed doors because only Party Members can vote on amending our Constitution, why would we let anyone else in on that? The decision for this conference to be a Members...
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Crafting in the Shed at the Bottom of the Garden (Free subscription) | 17/10/2009
Evening ladies, what a day I have had trying to catch up on some challenges, some are to be posted later in the week, but needed done this weekend. I have this challenge card for the Sketch by Jan at Sophisticat , (where there is a prize up for grabs), I liked this sketch and was able to use some older kits that I again found when I was clearing the shed, this was fab as I have found things that I...
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Andrew Reeves' running blog (Free subscription) | 15/10/2009
Despite the fact that the people of Glasgow North East have now been 115 days without Westminster representation and that as of yesterday Labour still had not moved the writ in Parliament for the by-election to take place, the Liberal Democrats launched their campaign yesterday with Leader Tavish Scott, Eileen Baxendale and Robert Brown MSP in Springburn. As is always the case with these things we...
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 15/10/2009
My son Joe shocked us all at breakfast the other morning by asking us what kilts, bagpipes, porridge, whisky, tartan and haggis have in common, and then announcing that none of them originated in Scotland. Apparently, kilts came from Ireland, bagpipes from central Asia, porridge from Scandinavia, whisky from China, tartan from England and haggis from ancient Greece – indeed Aristophanes wrote...
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Tom Morton's Beatcroft (Free subscription) | 04/10/2009
It was probably too much, the overnight boat trip from Shetland, followed by a thrash down the road to Glasgow, doing the show, and then another drive down to Wigtown, for the annual book festival. I should probably have had a quiet night in then, but a gathering of whisky writers forced me to partake of...Freixenet Cava, red wine and yes, whisky. Or to be precise, a Charles Maclean guided tasking...
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Tom Morton's Beatcroft (Free subscription) | 01/10/2009
Cold, cold, cold in Shetland with an icy north westerly bringing in the Greenlandic North Atlantic Blues...it's a time for staying in a sorting things out for the dark nights, snatching the fading daylight hours fior roof repairs and house-painting. Instead, I'm on the boat tonight and heading south. Wigtown Book Festival appearance (Tom Morton's Drinking for Scotland) on Saturday night. It's the same...
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BBC News (Free subscription) | 29/09/2009
Scotland's AG Barr, the makers of Irn Bru, has said its profits rose, aided by stronger sales in England and Wales.
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electrichalibut.co.uk (Free subscription) | 23/09/2009
As so often with BBC4 you drop in just for a second and end up catching something really interesting. Tonight I dropped in just to catch the last five minutes or so of Nicholas Crane's programme about Sir Hugh Munro and his mountain-cataloguing activities - inspiration for countless hillwalkers who've followed in his footsteps, myself included of course . That was followed by the always entertaining...
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Glasgow Daily Photo (Free subscription) | 18/09/2009
Sticking with the pipers from yesterday, here they are in University Avenue. The bus over the road plastered in the Irn-Bru (Scotland’s other national drink) logo was blaring out loud clubby music, presumably to entice new students to some club night or other. From where I was standing the pipers were winning though! [...]
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BBC News (Free subscription) | 12/09/2009
The Irn Bru factory in Cumbernauld is among hundreds of buildings across Scotland open to the public for free this weekend.
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5pm Blog (Free subscription) | 07/09/2009
In this blog posted in April, I set out my top ten Scottish foods and asked for readers' suggestions as to which grub they thought best represented Scotland. Stovies, Irn Bru and erm, bacon and brown sauce Highlander crisps were all pushed forward. According to a survey carried out on behalf of the current Scottish Food [...]
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 05/09/2009
Scotland's other national drink takes pride of place in the only place in the world where Coca-Cola isn't Number One. So is Irn-Bru the real thing? Well, despite the name it is neither brewed nor does it have much to do with iron, regardless of the famous advertising line that it is "Made in Scotland from girders".
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