Category: Observations
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Strange Birds Look “In By”
Three strangers arrive at the door by car looking for Barrowsgate. It turns out that they are looking for tips for how to make a career from writing.
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A Het Nicht in June
Barrowsgate muses about June being a bad month for selling pigs but a popular month for getting married. Barrowsgate’s friend Peter Birley tries to keep a wedding day tradition alive. Context: Blackening is a traditional wedding custom performed in the days or weeks prior to marriages in rural areas of Scotland and Northern Ireland. The…
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Pleasure at the Double
Barrowsgate advises his city friends to take it easy and enjoy the countryside at a slower pace. Note: This article appeared as part of the Bon Accord “Holiday Special” supplement.
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“Barrowsgate’s” Holiday
It’s holiday season and Barrowsgate was thinking he might go and visit some friends, which would mean that he’d have to leave the rest of the turnip harvest to Mrs B. She was having none of it.
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Saxpence Worth o’ Sensation
Barrowsgate and Wardie go into town. Seeing a sixpence on the tram tracks, Wardie gets his nose out of joint.
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Some Celebrate, Some Suffer
Mistress Barrowsgate lets her hair down for the Coronation of George VI. Context: The coronation of George VI and his wife, Elizabeth, as King and Queen of the United Kingdom took place at Westminster Abbey, London, on Wednesday 12 May 1937. George VI ascended the throne upon the unexpected abdication of his brother, Edward VIII,…
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Concernin’ Grey Maitter
A mishap turns into an argument with Mistress B and Barrowsgate ill-advisedly suggests that “weemin hinna the wit tae ken they hae a wint”.