Hey all. Since Nov 19 I've been contributing to the very excellent radio programme 'It's A Quinn Thing' which is broadcast on Celtic Music Radio, every Monday, 4 - 6pm, 95FM. I do a short slot on a word or phrase from our braw Scots language / leid. The music Patrick Quinn selects isn't too shabby… Continue reading Here’s a thing…
Author: Anne M Scriven
Splashes of yellow
There is no doubt a deep and meaningful message in the fact that gorse offers such startling radiant joy and very sharp thorns. I could possibly ponder on it for hours. Or you could. Meanwhile, I'll just enjoy the swathes of brightness appearing everywhere.
Siller Birks
'Gloomy Winter's now awa, Saft the westlan breezes blaw; Mang the birks o Stanely shaw The mavis sings fu cheerie, O;' [...] -- Robert Tannahill, (1808)