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Welcome to "Man with two dogs" - the family website for dog owners and dog walkers.
This is my countryside diary which appears each Saturday in the Courier & Advertiser newspaper.
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North-East Legacy
Monday, May 14th, 2012
A SLIM volume of poetry with a faded dust jacket and dedicated to a friend by the poet , a small watercolour painting signed with just the artist’s initials ‘VJ’, and a single sheet of writing paper with a poem written in an unsteady hand will come under the auctioneer’s hammer in the next few weeks. (more…)
WHITSON FAMILY TARTAN TRADITION
Monday, May 14th, 2012
If the family tradition is to be believed the surname Whitson in Scotland is of Viking origin. The story as it was written down by my great-uncle Sir Thomas Whitson, who was Lord Provost of Edinburgh from 1929-1932, was that three Viking brothers sailed from Norway to Scotland in their longboats, landing at Footdee (locally Fittie), at the mouth of the River Dee at Aberdeen where it meets the North Sea. (more…)
Scotland’s Accordion King
Sunday, April 1st, 2012
Music and the sea each have a heartbeat of their own but they dance to different rhythms. No one knows this better than Dave Pullar, one of the last of the east of Scotland salmon netsmen and owner of probably the largest collection of accordions in Scotland. (more…)
Beyond the Kitchen Window 2
Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011
BEYOND THE KITCHEN WINDOW 2
November 2010
Angus Whitson (more…)
Beyond the Kitchen Window 1
Tuesday, March 1st, 2011
BEYOND THE KITCHEN WINDOW
July 2010
Angus Whitson (more…)
Fighting Dog
Monday, April 17th, 2006
DOG STORIES are likely to get a good reception from the man with two dogs. But when the story is based in Montrose, the home-town where I grew up, and is true and concerns a Second World War dog hero, I’m hooked. (more…)
Birth of A Tartan
Sunday, March 12th, 2006
THEÂ CATALYSTÂ for the design of the Whitson tartan was a telephone call from Hollywood, USA which I received one perishing cold November evening in 1983. (more…)