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Observations on Autumn

  • Posted on: 26/10/2018

A Price to Pay The wind has blown most of the leaves from the trees. A few are still barely clothed but most are skeletal. A desiccated carpet of gold tawny brown and touches of red lies deep across lawns …

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Muriel’s Musings: All Over the Place

  • Posted on: 19/10/2018

Clinging On By A Thread  “Well how is the patient Mrs Travers?” “In his own words… Mrs  Wylie, “Clinging, clinging, clinging… to life by a thread.” “So he has a cold then?” “I would say so, Mrs Wylie, although Mr …

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Muriel’s Musings: “All is Safely Gathered In” at the Rural Bolthole

  • Posted on: 12/10/2018

Come, ye thankful people, come, Raise the song of harvest home; All is safely gathered in, Ere the winter storms begin.  Is Anyone Actually Ready For Church? “Jasper, Mrs Travers, you will need to get a move on. I can …

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Sir Robert Lorimer at Edinburgh Castle: 10 & 11 October

  • Posted on: 09/10/2018

Sir Robert Lorimer, architect of the controversial Scottish National War Memorial, will be at the Castle on these dates. He will be outlining the difficulties he faced in getting his designs and ideas accepted in war-weary Scotland. His persistence and …

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