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Remembering Jim Reeves ..

 

Bonjour, Marie-Agnès, Janice et Jean-Claude –

Hello again! 🙂 Ca va? – How are you all? We must have exchanged hundreds of messages in the last few years by email – and are now getting to know each other really well – so it seems astonishing that it’s over 12 months since our […]

May 11th, 2014 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Letters From Scotland | Leave a comment

Momentous Events at Scapa Flow ..

Bonjour Mairiuna, Janice et Jean-Claude! Ca va? – How are you today?

It was lovely to see you again at the end of September, and to welcome you all for the first time to our home in Scotland – a short visit, but one filled with so many unforgettable moments! 🙂

 

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December 4th, 2012 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: History, Letters From Scotland, Orkney | Leave a comment

The Astonishing Flight of Rudolf Hess ..

 

Overview of the medieval Cité de Carcassonne Source Wikipedia

Bonjour Marie-Agnès, Janice et Jean-Claude. Hello again from Scotland! 🙂

Jean-Claude and Marie-Agnès, please let me say how thrilled we were to meet you both again towards the end of April – for just the second time in our warm and cordial friendship! […]

May 9th, 2012 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: History, Letters From Scotland | 3 comments

Up Helly Aa – Lerwick’s Night of the Year!

Bonjour! Hello again from Scotland, Marie-Agnès, Janice and Jean-Claude!

We both wish you – and all of Scotiana’s readers – bon courage and many happy times in the year ahead, which promises to be quite a difficult one. 🙂

Snowdrops from Blaikiewell Animal Sanctuary, in Deeside, Aberdeenshire, UK – Source: Wikipedia

As we write, […]

January 28th, 2012 | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Category: Letters From Scotland | Leave a comment

An Enigmatic Pianist – and two Opera Stars!

 

The Scots Magazine octobre 2011

Bonjour Janice, Marie-Agnès et Jean-Claude – Hello again from Scotland! 🙂

Marie-Agnès and Jean-Claude, do you still have a subscription to The Scots Magazine, the famous journal first published in 1739?

We don’t have one ourselves, but were interested to find that the October 2011 issue contained […]

December 2nd, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Great Scots, Letters From Scotland | 7 comments
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