I imagine the first question anyone will ask is what is a column called "Scottish Flotsam". I guess we will have to begin with what is "flotsam". Among the definitions of the word are "things washed ashore" or "miscellaneous trifles". Well, we believe you can find some great treasure on the ocean shore. But -- you will never know what you will find or its value. So we decided that is what this column is - flotsam. We wanted a place to put things that didn't fit anywhere else and might be of interest. Each item could be a column itself and might be some day but for now it will be the flotsam, which washes our way.
Lets begin with a famous Scot.
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Actor. Born in Glasgow, Carlyle was brought up in Maryhill. His mother left when he was just four years old and thereafter he had a rather Bohemian childhood accompanying his painter-and-decorator father around the country. Carlyle was inspired to take up acting after reading an Arthur Miller play and he went on to train at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. His films include Trainspotting (1996), The Full Monty (1997), Angela's Ashes (1999) and The Beach (2000). TV roles include Hamish Macbeth (1995) and as a liverpudlian killer in Cracker (1993). Carlyle is noted for thoroughly researching his roles, for example, he slept rough on the streets of London for 5 days in preparation for the film Safe (1993). Carlyle married Anastasia, a makeup artist, in 1997 and was awarded an OBE (1999). Source:http://www.scotlandforvisitors.com/famous.php It is time to stop combing the library but we can not quit without some quotes from Quotable Scots another great History bookshelf resident. Let's see what quotes we can find. PLACES
It was a true, sterling, gospel sermon - it was striking, sublime, and awful in the extreme. He finally made out the IT, mentioned in the text, to mean, properly and positively, the notable town of Auchtermuchty. He proved all the people in it, to their perfect satisfaction, to be in the gall of bitterness and the bond of iniquity.
Auld Ayr, wham ne'er a toon surpasses, For honest men and bonny lasses.
Happy the man who belongs to no party,
In all the Hebrides, Benbecula is the sea's dearest child. That is why the returning tide races so quickly over the sand, hurrying with pouted lips to kiss its shore. And when the night's embraces are over, the sea leaves Benbecula again, like a mother bird going to forage for its young. Hector MacIver (1910-1966), The Outer Isles, in G. Scott-Moncrieff, Scottish Country (1936)Now for a Gaelic Proverb for this month.
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