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Archive for December, 2005

Old fashioned

Saturday, December 31st, 2005
Weekly

OLD FASHIONED often means being out of fashion these days, but there’s nothing unfashionable about Smalls sweetie shop in Forfar’s Castle Street. I can’t believe it’s been there since 1955 and I only discovered it a week ago. I’m not a regular visitor to my county town, but in the course of three score years and a smidgen more I’d have thought I was bound to look in the window at least once.

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The Siren

Saturday, December 24th, 2005
Weekly

THE SIREN sea sang her song and, like the bidden fiddler, I went – but I didnae get my gill of whisky! 

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The night

Saturday, December 17th, 2005
Weekly

THE NIGHT is darkest just before the dawn’, the old saw goes. I’ve had early mornings this past fortnight and I’ve tried to catch the dawning, but it’s hard to judge at just what Stygian moment night ceases and dawn emerges from the lightening darkness.

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Golf balls

Saturday, December 10th, 2005
Weekly

GOLF BALLS should be on golf courses, so I was surprised to find one when walking with dogs in a field not far from the Drovers Inn near Memus. The nearest golf course is at Kirriemuir about six miles away, so there had to be a logical reason for the pristine Slazenger golf ball doucely lying in the long grass.

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Wee Dappin

Saturday, December 3rd, 2005
Weekly

THE WIDEOPEN (it’s local adaptation used to be the ‘Wee Dappin’) is the old road that cuts off from the A937 just north of Marykirk and crosses over the hill to Kirkside, just south of St Cyrus.  It’s well named, because it’s rather bleak and wide open to the weather.  

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