Wry obervations about rural life in north-east Scotland in the 1930s written by Barrowsgate in Doric

Barrowsgate offers prayers for readers whose offspring are having to fight another war. He is able to empathise with them one of his own sons is also away serving his country.

Note: Barrowsgate’s elder son George has joined the Merchant Navy the previous month and was already away at sea.