Keep posting immediately after BeeDee...Happy Christmas and thank you for the spectacuar vista!
"Before two notes of the theme were played, Colin knew it was Patrick Mor MacCrimmon's 'Lament for the Children'...Sad seven times--ah, Patrick MacCrimmon of the seven dead sons....'It's a hard tune, that', said old Angus. Hard on the piper; hard on them all; hard on the world." Butcher's Broom, by Neil Gunn, 1994 Walker & Co, NY, p. 397-8.
If anyone's going to be in the crowds in the High Street of Auld Reekie (Edinburgh) at midnight on the 31st, remember to lob an empty bottle at the clock on the Tron Kirk and then kiss every lady you can in the mob - including policewomen Anything goes at New Year !
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