A photo taken by tourist Christopher Aitchison in May 2008 at Tantallon Castle appears to show a person looking out in old style clothing. Insisting the photo isn’t tampered with this image is baffling researchers. This photo has just been made public by Richard Wiseman, a professor of psychology studing “photographic evidence for ghost” ahead […]
Every year at New York’s Dressed to Kilt we see stars doning their kilts and celebrating Tartan Week. This event has become a way for Kilt designers to flaunt their creativity and also make the odd celebrity look a bit silly. Each year surpasses the previous with new looks to the traditional Kilt. Looking at […]
Robert Burns in literature was a lonely, unhealthy, complicated, romantic and earthy genius but in art he has always been shown as biscuit tin boring. The standard Burns image is flat and lifeless, all the dirt and passion sterilized out, he is the youthful dandy, the icon of the nation. Art works inspired by Burns […]
Here’s a video (apologise but it’s our first attempt) of our day out to Wanlockhead, the highest village in Scotland. We were married in the next village, Leadhills and had our wedding reception here. Rodger spent alot of his childhood here so we have a strong connection with this area:
A challenge has been set by our Twitter supporter BergFulton to find songs that mention specific sites/cities in Scotland. Bonus points if the band is not actually Scottish …. So here we are: Lochaber no more, sutherland no more Lewis no more Skye no more. Bathgate no more Linwood no more Methil no more Irvine […]
Thanks to our twitter crowd we’ve been inspired to start collecting some of the our favorite examples of Scottish slang. Here’s what we have so far: Driech as in its a driech day ootside yer erse is oot the windae….you are revealing your bottom boak . to be sick, a dry boak to wretch bonglie […]
The Declaration of Arbroath is one of Scotland’s most famous documents. Scotland’s great cry of independence and freedom from the (then) yoke of the English. As with all great moments in history they do tend to appear on all manner of tourist souvenirs; there are Declaration of Arbroath fridge magnets, Declaration tea towels, probably even […]
This week sees the return of the historically significant Glenfinnan Stone to Scotland. It is a round, weatherworn stone, about 12 inches in diameter, with a hole carved out at its centre, supposedly for the purpose of supporting the standard carried by Bonnie Prince Charlie when he arived at the shores of Loch Shiel. This […]
Two Scottish companies have now been asked to supply textiles for the redecoration of the White House. Biggar company, Calzeat Ltd were commissioned in January by Los Angeles designer Michael Smith to provide fabric for curtains which will hang in the First Family’s private apartments. Another company, Perth-based MacNaughton Holdings, have now received an order […]
Scotclans was at the Edinburgh Twitter Festival (Twestival)last night. We saw quite a few nice kilts, met some intersting people and raised lots of money for the charity ‘Water’. We failed however, to win the raffle! We have our own twitter page where we’ve been trying to make some Clan connections – feel free to […]
