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Scottish dialects and accents
A trip through Scotland and the different accents.A humourus look at and examples of the different Scottish accents. Especaily the Glesga patter. The Scottish accent has been made famous by many different sources. in the world of cinema we have Sir Sean Connery,and of course Ewan Mcgregor and the...
4 commentsApartheid's cruel legacy
Reflections on apartheid and the legacy of wounded people, people with thick emotional scar tissue that hampers learning to know and love one another
12 commentsWhy Scottish men are sexy... or are they ?
It was supposed to be a lazy day of sightseeing. A whisky distillery in the morning, lunch at an old mill and then back to our 13th-century castle accommodation in the evening. Yet from the moment we laid eyes on our Scottish busdriver, we knew it...
17 commentsUnion Castle shipping line memorabilia
Fascinating Union Castle memorabilia in my collection give glimpse of life at sea in the early part of the 20th Century
12 commentsTop 10 albums of the South African jazz diaspora – Tony McGregor picks the best
Exile was a two-edged sword for the South African musicians who left their homeland for the freedom of Europe and the United States. This is a selection of some of the finest albums to come out of the greaat South African jazz diaspora
11 commentsProhibition Persists In Alabama, Don't Bet On Any Changes!
I have lived in Alabama my entire life and there are a variety of things which piss me off. One of them is the fact that I can't buy beer in Walker Co. Jefferson Co., the county where Birmingham is located,...
5 commentsVintage postcards of Golspie, Sutherland
From my earliest years I recall hearing about my great-great-grandfather, always referred to in the family as "Alexander McGregor, merchant of Golspie."
19 commentsThe 'Mendi' Disaster by Murray McGregor
Murray McGregor wrote this account of the 'Mendi' disaster in the early 1980s.
11 commentsTwo photos span 160 years
The two photos accompanying this Hub are of McGregor men in my line of descent, from my great-grandfather to my son they span five generations which stretch from 1829, the years of my great-grandfather’s birth, to 1989 when the second photo was...
6 commentsThe journey of my life
The reason for my being born in Cape Town rather than in the then Transkei where my father was a teacher, was Hitler. He overshadowed my life from the start and in some ways still does.
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