Betwixt Lakeland & Edinburgh
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Every single time I walk close to Edinburgh’s intricate and towering memorial to the great writer and poet Sir Walter Scott, I ask myself the same – you may think strange – question: what, if he could possibly be aware of it at all, would a quiet thinker like Scott make of such a (literally enormous) tribute to a writer? I’ve never come close to an answer, but the question remains …
A wonderful ScottFest, Saturday 14 August 2021, at Abbotsford House, Melrose, Roxburghshire – the home of Sir Walter Scott, 1771-1832 – celebrating the 250th anniversary of his birth
Old newspaper stuffed into the dining room window at Abbotsford, presumably to stop rattling or draughts – which, fascinatingly, just happens to advertise a 1908 Rolls Royce Silver Ghost for sale at a ‘mere’ £35,000.00 ono – that ‘looks and drives as it should.’ I wonder who bought it, and where? And how many others have spotted the newspaper here? 🙂 #scottfest2021
The Scott Monument on Princes Street, Edinburgh
Waverley Station, named after Scott’s Waverley series (27 books) – once the most widely read novels in Europe, and the Balmoral Hotel beneath Calton Hill in Edinburgh