As is the way with this blog, continuations of previous posts often take an extremely long time since the previous parts.  Fairs and Mark...

 Like many other posts, this is a hotch-potch of information very loosely tied by a single theme (more often than not tied up with a shoogly...

 The case of Mary Elder, tried for murder of her servant Margaret Warren, has been summerised in many places in the nearly two centuries sin...

What connects Bob Dylan and the Ancient City, Brechin? The correct answer is, of course, nothing. Nothing, directly that is. Despite having...

 The old custom of perambulating - carefully walking - the boundaries of parishes, burghs and estates is no longer practised in Britain, exc...

 Is there something odd about Brechin? No, obviously not. But is there something supernaturally strange about the burgh? Maybe. I only ask ...