Category: Bitties Fae Barrowsgate
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Love, a fyou Defineetions
A speech at the Geneva Conference of 1933 made Barrowsgate reflect on the true meaning of love and the different ways of expressing it. By way of example, Jockie Tamson writes his true love a poem by way of marriage proposal. Jockie’s love letter is almost identical to Barrowsgate’s verse “A Proposal”.
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The Colorado Beetle an’ Ithers
A cautionary tale of beetles, bugs and insects and how to deal with them. The context for this bittie was the Colorado Beetle (Scotland) Order of 1933, brought in to combat the Colorado beetle which, as Barrowsgate notes, could have decimated potato crop.
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The Repeal of Prohibition in America
In 1933, the USA repealed the alcohol prohibition laws that had been in place since 1919. Barrowsgate notes that Scottish distilleries are working overtime to keep up with the demand and that the repeal is good news for Scotland.
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The Scots – Their Reet an’ Rise
Barrowsgate is not impressed with an account of a talk given by Lord Raglan at the British Association (for the Advancement of Science) in which he suggests that the Scots are not an ancient race. With a combination of logic and the Old Testament, Barrowsgate demolishes Raglan’s argument. Like Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Lord Raglan was…
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Ase Backets!
Aberdeen Council is apparently making money from refuse – including ash buckets. An early example of refuse recycling.