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 Scotland On Sunday
Newest Review: ... everywhere; and as the Labour Party in Scotland is still in a somewhat confused state after losing power to those pesky ... more  ... Nationalists its buddies in the press have been laying into chubby Alex with reckless abandon. My passions are fairly ambivalent as far as politics goes ('A plague on ALL your houses' is my cry of choice) but it is quite amusing to see the chubby one deflect almost all the blows directed at him and the mounting irritation that his Teflon talents are causing among his enemies.
But this Sunday past, Edinburgh politicking was forgotten for the moment as the paper's attentions were devoted to the mounting troubles fur...more |
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Scotland On Sunday: Well, it beats playing golf (1495 words)
by Templar19 - written on 08.05.08 (Very useful, 110 readings)
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I had a little laugh with myself when I began writing this because I suddenly thought about what my mother used to say about the Scottish Sundays of her childhood. Scotland on Sunday? That would have been a contradiction in terms. Scotland closed down on Sundays, the Presbyterian torso at least, to allow miserable sinners to reflect on... well, miserable sinning, I suppose. There was no time for reading (the Bible excepted), laughing or frivolity. Happy days! (I'm joking, of course, but only just.) Nowadays, however, Scotland DOES exist on Sundays and some of its inhabitants - when not shopping, watching football or playing golf - might want to read a Sunday ...
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