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Hielan coo picture of the week – double shot

Two bedraggled Glaswegian coos! Saw these rather decrepit looking beasties when Adrian and I were marshalling the 2010 Forget Me Not Walk for Leukaemia and Lymphoma Research in Pollok Park in Glasgow a few months back. By the time we’d been hauled out of bed on a Sunday morning, manhandled into vast, tent-like luminous marshall […]

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Hielan Calf picture of the week

For the second captivating installment of this thrilling series, here’s a wee Hielan’ calf with her maw, also in a field in Tennessee. It was a very damp and muddy field, full of retired US army guys who were a bit too enthusiastic about drunkenly waving round broadswords for my liking. Despite the damp and […]

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Hielan Coo picture of the week

I probably won’t actually get around to posting one coo picture every week, but I don’t have a whole lot else to do with myself over here in Berlin (other than puzzling over the numbers of bear-shaped meat products on sale and finishing the Scottish Ambassador book), so maybe I will. Anyway, this is a […]

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How to be Scottish…

Want to learn how to be Scottish on this side of the Atlantic? Here’s how… 1. Learn Scottish Country dancing from suspicious Scottish-Hawaiians in Honolulu. 2. Struggle through early morning Scotch whisky tasting in Memphis. 3. Study ancient Scottish history in Las Vegas. 4. Learn rules of caber tossing at Oregonian Highland Games. 5. Discover […]

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