A difficult decision that everyone has to make from time to time, when faced with a selection of equally attractive goods, is… which one to choose. In such a situation, many variables and aspects have to be taken into consideration, like affordability, attractiveness, prestige, look, desirability, and so on… Recently I had to replace my mobile phone, and it took…
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Some of you might still remember from a few years back “Tad’s Tatties”, which were distributed from St Peter’s porch for a number of weeks. The tatties were a by-product of the rather noble enterprise of turning a strip of ground in the parish garden into a playground for the pupils of St Peter’s Primary School. First of all, that…
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During a friendly chat a couple of weeks ago, I learnt how farmers and fishermen used to form pretty separate communities in the Buckie area. Quite likely I personally wouldn’t have been able to share much common ground with either community – my knowledge regarding farming or fishing is pretty much next to nothing. Am I uniquely ignorant in that…
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Rather a bit unusually, the weather forecast was relatively favourable for a narrow strip of land along the west coast of northern Scotland; narrow, but wide enough to promise dry conditions on Slioch, a Munro I’d been eyeing for quite a while. With a fellow hillwalker we started our adventure shortly before 9am at a cark park about half a…
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The graduation season is in full swing. It started a fortnight ago in St Peter’s church, when three graduation ceremonies were held: one for the P7 leavers from St Peter’s Primary School, followed by two for St Peter’s Nursery pupils. Now, across the country, university students who have completed their degrees are hiring gowns and mortar-boards in readiness for going…