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Showing posts with label Scotland. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Scotland. Show all posts
Friday, June 15, 2018

A literary pilgrimage to Abbotsford by Michelle Styles

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Over the years, I have enjoyed visiting houses where famous authors created their stories and found inspiration. Literary pilgrimages if ...
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Monday, May 15, 2017

Michelle Styles: My latest Book Hunting Expedition

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The late Phyllis Whitney famously never went on vacation but always went on book-hunting expeditions. It is simply a matter of tailoring ...
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Wednesday, December 14, 2016

Christina Hollis: Highland Hideaway...

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My mum has been hospitalised with a chest infection, which would be bad enough at any time of year but in the run-up to Christmas it's...
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Wednesday, August 31, 2016

My Heart Is In the Highlands

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Later today, I will be returning to Scotland for the first time in NINE years. I can't believe it's been so long since my last visi...
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Sunday, July 31, 2016

August is when?!!

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Somehow the summer has flown by and now I'm facing down one of the busiest Augusts I've ever faced! June was taken up by college g...
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Saturday, September 20, 2014

Can You Be Homesick for a Place Where You've Never Lived?

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    I always thought you had to have lived in a place in order to be homesick for it. But, I discovered on my first trip to Scotland i...
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Thursday, March 20, 2014

The OUTLANDER Craze - You In?

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Back in 1991, while I was busy with a new baby, Diana Gabaldon published her first novel - OUTLANDER. I'd only recently returned to ...
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Wednesday, January 05, 2011

Anne Gracie's Scottish Affair

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I've had a love affair with Scotland all my life. I grew up with a father who, like his father and grandfather before him, quoted Rabbie...
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Tuesday, June 23, 2009

In Search of Serendipity

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I am always amazed at the serendipitous moments in real life and in writing my stories. Many, many times, strange 'coincidences' ...
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Friday, January 30, 2009

You Say It's Your Birthday?!.......

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.....it's my birthday, too, yeah! Alas, it is my birthday today and I'm tempted to use some of that new-fangled math to come up ...
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Sunday, June 15, 2008

Missing: Where are the Men in Kilts?

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Just who I need to tell about the missing men-in-kilts in Scotland? Does one call the police about something as horrible as an entire grou...
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