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Helmsdale
Monday, October 28, 2024

Dundee Gingerbread

This is a traditional Scottish recipe and you will need to decide how you'd like to adjust it to...

Mrs. Bruce’s Lasagna

This recipe is from Mrs. Bruce of Aberdeen. Filling: - 1 pound of hamburger meat (mince) - 1 pack of streaky bacon -...

Oatcakes

This is a Scottish traditional recipe that has not been modified from its original version. You will need to...

Featured Scottish Website

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Scottish Brick History

Scottish Websites Fledermaus -
The Roman occupation of Scotland in first century AD brought brick-making skills to the Scots. Before the industrial revolution all bricks in Scotland were moulded by hand, a long process which began with the excavation of clay in autumn and ended the following summer when the bricks were fired in small kilns. One of the first industrial buildings to be built from bricks in Scotland was Stanley Mills in Perthshire, followed shortly after by numerous cotton mills in Glasgow. The...

Scottish History

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Clan Bruce

Our Patriot monarch, King Robert the Bruce, belonged to...

History of the Plague in Scotland

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The Old Scottish Wine Trade

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The Old Scottish Fisheries

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What is the weather in the Highlands today?

Weather changes quickly, so dress in layers and wear sensible shoes. Distance between services can be long, pack snacks & water.
Aberdeen
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Banff
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10.4 ° C
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Inverness
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Helmsdale
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Thurso
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Kirkwall
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9 ° C
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Portree
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Peterhead
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10.2 ° C
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Fochabers
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9.8 ° C
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Tain
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Wick
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10 ° C
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Dounreay
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Shetland Islands
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Ullapool
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Fraserburgh
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Nairn
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Golspie
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Mey
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11.3 ° C
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Tongue
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11.7 ° C
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Stornoway
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Fort William
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Scottish Folklore, Fairytales & Myths

Grab a cuppa and dig in to a good story.

Featured Scottish Fairy Tale

Scottish Words: A Fairy Tale Glossary

A body: a person Airt: direction Ahint: behind Bairn: child Baudrons: Scotch name for a cat Ben: in towards an inner room Ben: a mountain peak Bicker: to argue in a petty way Bonnet-piece: an old Scottish coin Byre: cowhouse Canty: kindly, cheerful Cantrip: a freak, or wilful piece of trickery Chuckie-stone: a small white pebble Clout: a blow Cloving: separating lint from its stalk Clue: a ball of worsted Creel: a large hand-made basket Cutty-pipe: a short clay pipe Daft: silly, weak-minded Dander: to walk aimlessly Darkening: the twilight Divot: a sod Doo: a dove Douce: sedate Dowie: dull, low-spirited Dyke: a wall Eldritch: weird Emprise: an enterprise Entry: a passage Fain: gladly Feared: afraid Forbye: besides Gang: go Girnel: a meal-chest Gled: a hawk Gloaming: the twilight Greeting: crying Hantle: very much, a considerable number Havers: nonsense Heckle: to comb Hinnie: a term of endearment Hirple: to limp Histie: haste thee Inbye: inside Ingle neuk: the corner by the fire Joists: the beams in a roof Kailyard: a kitchen garden Ken: know Kirn: a churn, to churn Kist: a chest Knowe: a little hillock Lift: the sky, the air Light: alight Lintie: a linnet Lout: to stoop Lum: chimney Louping-on-stane: a stone from which to mount a horse Malison: a curse Meat: food Migraine: a pain affecting one half of the head Mutch: a cap Onstead: farm buildings Paddock: a toad or frog Pirnie: a woollen nightcap Poke: a bag Rivlins: shoes made of cowhide Sen' night: a week Shoon: shoes Siccan: such Siller: money Sinsyne: since Smatchet: small boy Sneck: to latch or shut a door Snibbit: bolted, snib,...

What Are Scottish Bloggers Saying?

Here we feature some of our favourite posts from our bloggers.

Old Houses

Highland Post Seavino -
It is a humid Tuesday in July, and I am standing on the shoulder of a dirt road in Northeast Wisconsin. I stepped out of my truck to take a photograph of a farmhouse I noticed rotting away next to land that has not seen a crop in years. It is a quiet afternoon, one that reminds me of summers when there was nowhere I had to be and no way to get there except by bicycle. Today, all that can be heard is the gravel beneath my feet as I work my way down a potholed driveway. I stop under a tree that spans two floors. In a...

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