Who may describe the rapture with which our hero beheld the dazzling glories of the Kirkwall fair?
Magnus Halcro: Episode II
Poetry Corner: She Walks in Beauty
“She walks in beauty, like the night/Of cloudless climes and starry skies”
Poetry Corner
Continuing our theme on this National caramel day.
Poetry Corner: Haute, Hoat Cuisine
“Aw, deep-fried Mars/,ah spied ye oan the menu /o ma local chippie.”
Dr John Rae: Arctic Explorer
a man who became a leading Arctic explorer and who also became embroiled in a Victorian scandal.
Magnus Halcro: Episode I
“The parish of Holm is perhaps one of the most beautiful in the Orcadian archipelago”
Poetry Corner: A Scottish Garden of Eden or a Taj Mahal to Love
“For Taj Mahals of love have shown /Such love is never dead.”
I DON’T BELIEVE IT!:The strange but true Scottish facts that aren’t April Fools
VisitScotland is celebrating the weird and wonderful facts about Scotland that are entirely true!
Poetry Corner
On this historic day of the triggering of article 50, this poem has been chosen to reflect one person’s view.
Poetry Corner: Robert Louis Stevenson
“Whenever the moon and stars are set,Whenever the wind is high,”
