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17 Jan
Regardless of what TS Elliot might have written, January is the cruellest month for many. The air is cold, the daylight hours are short and the roads are all frozen over. After the warm idealism of Christmas, we are confronted with the stark future in which we are compelled to improve ourselves. Small wonder, then, that so many of us find it so thoroughly depressing. January’s notoriety is further cemented by its uniquely high suicide rate. What follows is a...
19 Dec
Christmas; all trees, tinsel and Turkey, right? Well maybe south of the border where the Victorians managed to hijack the UK’s traditional take on Christmas, but in Scotland tradition means tradition. Scottish Christmas traditions are certainly older than many practised south of the border. In fact, in Scotland, Christmas has been less of a focus than New Year and there’s some very historical reasons for the surprisingly large number of New Year related traditions. During the reformation the strongly Presbyterian...
