April/May 2018
SCOTS NEWS magazine
AUSTRALIAN PIPE BAND CHAMPIONSHIPS in Brisbane
LOOKING FOR SCOTS WHO ARE SCOTTS
Volume 7 Number 9
to join the parade in Townsville
TIGHNABRUAICH HOUSE ON THE HILL an historic landmark in Brisbane
GET YER BLETHERIN BUNNET ON Harry Potter translated into Scots
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FROM THE EDITOR
FOLLOWING on from bagging 53 medals at Glasgow in 2014, Team Scotland is aiming for even greater success at the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games from April 4 to 15. Two hundred and twentyfour athletes will proudly fly the Saltire and compete in 18 events. Team Scotland won 29 medals at the Melbourne Games in 2006 and director of High Performance at the Sportscotland Institute, Mike Whittingham, said the ‘strong and highly motivated team’ can better that effort. Track and field star Andrew Butchart is wearing the team’s official parade tartan which will look spectacular as the athletes march into the stadium at Carrara for the Opening Ceremony. More than 6,600 athletes and team officials from 70 Commonwealth nations and territories will be welcomed to the Gold Coast to take part in the largest integrated sports program in Commonwealth Games history. Channel 7 has secured the rights to televise the event - how nice that those of us in Australia won’t have to get up at all hours of the night and early morning to watch events. We wish all of our athletes across 18 events and seven para-events, the very best of luck. Welcome to Australia - we know you will love the Gold Coast.
THE Gold Coast will welcome athletes from all over the Commonwealth this month, with the opening ceremony on April 4. We are looking forward to seeing our Australian athletes, as well as Team Scotland, performing their best and hopefully taking home a swag of medals. There’s another big event on the Scottish calendar with the biennial Australian Pipe Band Championships which will be held at Toowong in Brisbane on April 7. It promises to be a big day with lots of Scottish entertainment as well as the judging of bands from all over Queensland, interstate and a few who have made the trip from other countries. If you have ever wondered what the Kirkin’ o’ the Tartan was all about have a look at page 5. You might like to attend this year’s event on April 29 at St Paul’s Presbyterian Church at Spring Hill. There are some great CDs to be won (see page 8) and my trilogy of books is on sale (see page 4). If you are going to the Games to support our athletes, I wish you a safe and happy trip. I also wish you and
PUBLISHING AND CONTACTS
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SCOTS NEWS magazine is an independent publication for Scots in Queensland. The magazine is published bi-monthly and distributed on the first of the month. EDITOR AND PUBLISHER: Carmel McMurdo Audsley.
COPYRIGHT: All stories appearing in the magazine are written by the editor unless otherwise stated and are subject to copyright laws. Stories may not be reproduced in any form without permission from the editor. COMPETITIONS: See page 8 for competition prizes and entry details. CONTACT: We welcome emails and would love to hear your news and views. Advertising enquiries are also welcome. EMAIL: scotsnews@iinet.net.au DEADLINE FOR JUNE/JULY ISSUE: May 20.
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yours a happy Easter. Until our next issue, best wishes,
Carmel
Band Competition in Brisbane Ceilidh in Toowoomba Scots Who Have Served to March Clan Donald Award Kirkin’ o’ the Tartan Cameron Gathering at Gold Coast Harry Potter Now Speaks Scots G i ve-aw ay - 3 Celtic Fyre CDs Tighnabruaich’s Scottish Origins Books With A Scottish Connection Goods and Services Calendar of Events
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Congratulations to the winners in our FEBRUARY/MARCH GIVE-AWAY: Amanda Kehoe and Richard Stanley
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EVENTS
Tartan spectacular at band championships in Brisbane
THE 2018 Australian Pipe Band Championship will be held on Saturday April 7 at Brisbane Boys College at Toowong in Brisbane. Held every two years, the championship event is the premier Australian competition for bagpipe and drum bands. More than 30 bands made up of over 1,200 pipers and drummers will participate in this tartan spectacular. The event has attracted bands from all over Queensland and interstate as well as the Foundation of New Zealand Youth Pipe Band and St George’s Girls School (Malaysia). As well as the competition, the day will include Highland dancing displays, medieval games and stalls selling all manner of Scottish wares.
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Get your dancing shoes on for Toowoomba Ceilidh
TOOWOOMBA Caledonian Society and Pipe Band Inc will host their first Ceilidh for the year on Saturday May 26 from 7pm at Drayton Hall. A great night of Scottish entertainment has been planned, with music from the pipe band, Highland dancing displays and community Scottish country dancing. No experience is necessary as all the dances are called, including Gay Gordon, Pride of Erin, Dashing White Sergeant, Strip the Willow and the Cumberland Reel. The wearing of comfortable shoes is advised as some of the dancing can be a bit wild.
Tickets are $10 for adults and children over 13, and $5 for under13s. A licensed bar will be operating and there are great raffle prizes to be won. The society recently held a very successful Burns Supper where around 80 guests enjoyed a fivecourse meal including haggis. Kym Flehr addressed the haggis and was presented with a plaque for his services as Chieftan for the past 10 years. Even Robert Burns was in attendance, although the local namesake can claim no ancestry to the bard. To book your tickets for the forthcoming Ceilidh phone Marg on 0429 700 217.
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NEWS/EVENTS
Scots Who Have Served
TOWNSVILLE Scottish Community has had a great response from people who wish to march in the inaugural Scots Who Have Served contingent at this year’s ANZAC Parade on Wednesday April 25. Participants will include individuals of Scottish heritage who are currently serving in any military organisation or who have previously served, including reservists, as well as those wishing to honour the memory of a family member or friend of Scottish heritage who has served. As they proudly walk behind the Scots Who Have Served banner (pictured above), participants will be decked out in tartan in the form of kilt, trews, ties or sashes. Anyone interested in joining in can contact Les Nicholson on 0417 637 893 or email ljn3@optusnet.com.au.
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Clan Donald award supports Gaelic culture and Scottish heritage
CONTINUING their centuries old patronage of the arts and support of Gaelic culture, The Clan Donald Lands Trust Armadale Skye will again award a pipe band prize named “in memory of AWR MacDonald, a son of Australia, in the name of the great Clan Donald”, at a pipe band competition in Australia in 2018. This year the award will support the Grade 4 band at the Australian Championships to be held at Brisbane Boys College Brisbane Queensland on Saturday April 7. The AWR MacDonald Memorial Prize offers $1,000, together with a unique Scottish targe-like trophy for first place, as well as cash amounts for second and third places. The prizes will be presented on the day by representatives from Clan Donald including Malcolm C. McDonald OAM, Toiseach of the Finlaggan Council, Clan Donald International. The AWR MacDonald Memorial Prize in Australia joins the Donald
MacDonald Quaich, awarded annually at an invitational competition for Piobaireachd at Armadale Castle on Skye. In 2018, the Clan Donald Lands Trust will also award similar annual prizes f or pi p e band s i n A m eri ca (see image above), to be known as the Ellice and Rosa McDonald Memorial Prize, and in New Zealand as the Harold McIssac Memorial Prize. The worldwide support from the Clan Donald Lands Trust will promote, encourage and develop excellence in piping and drumming, an integral part of Scottish Heritage.
Looking for Scots who are Scotts
Follow the lives of a typical Scottish family of the times, in the late 1600s to 2012, from green farmlands, to dark coal mines and on to the sunny Australia. For the month of April all three books for just $50. email scotsnews@iinet.net.au for payment details. 5-STAR REVIEWS!
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CLAN Scott (including Septs of Geddes, Laidlaw, Langlands, Harden and Balwearie) will lead the Parade of Tartans at Townsville Tartan Day on Sunday June 17. Organiser Marie Gibson said any Clan Scott members would be warmly welcomed as part of the Honoured Clan. “We are very pleased to have the Australian Commissioner for Clan Scott, Ms Heather de Sylva, attending the Clansmen’s Ceilidh and Townsville Tartan Day this year,” Ms Gibson said. “Heather and other members of Clan Scott will lead the Parade of Tartans. We have three Clan Scott banners and it would be great to have at least three rows of Scotts at the head of the parade.” If you belong to Clan Scott and would like to participate, phone Marie Gibson on 0413 456 542 or email mlg7@optusnet.com.au.
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EVENTS
The annual Kirkin’ o’ the Tartan will be held in Brisbane at St Paul’s Presbyterian Church Spring Hill on Sunday April 29. Neil Macdonald, president of the Scottish Clans Congress of Queensland which sponsors the event, explains the origins of the Kirkin’.
What is The Kirking of the Tartan? Etymologically it simply means: · ·
Kirking, from the Scottish Gaelic word kirk which means church, in this usage means “blessing.” Tartans are the traditional plaid emblems of Scottish clans represented in unevenly spaced colored lines and rectangles on woven wool cloth.
According to popular legend, the story is a bit more varied. ON July 25, 1745, the young Prince Charles Edward Stewart, “Bonnie Prince Charlie” returned from exile in France and landed at Lochnanaugh in Scotland where he began to enlist the Highland Clans for an unsuccessful attempt to dethrone George II of England, and to restore the Scottish throne to the Royal House of Stewart. Following this defeat, the Act of Proscription - to subdue the vanquished Highlanders - banned the wearing of any sign of the Tartan, forbade any speaking in Gaelic, outlawed Scottish music, dancing or the playing of the pipes. The Scottish Highlanders subsequently hid pieces of tartan under their clothing and brought them to church for a secret blessing, or kirkin’, at a particular point in the service by the minister. During the 36 years following the Disarming Act of 1746 when the Hanovarian English government strictly enforced this ban, at the Sunday service Highlanders would touch the hidden cloth when the minister gave the benediction, thus rededicating themselves to God and their Scottish heritage.
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The Kirkin’ o’ the Tartan service was “revived” during World War II by Reverend Peter Marshall, (perhaps best known by the biographical book and film A Man Called Peter) who was originally from south-west Scotland and at one time pastor of the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C. In 1947 he served as Chaplain of the U.S. Senate. In order to encourage Scottish-Americans to sign up to fight on behalf of Great Britain, Peter Marshall recreated the Kirkin’ o’ the Tartan ceremony to
try to instill pride among ScottishAmericans. The ceremony was at that time held in Presbyterian churches of Scottish heritage across the U.S. Today, the celebration is not limited to Presbyterian churches, but is found in Episcopalian, Methodist, Roman Catholic, Orthodox and other denominations across the world. In present day celebration, the Highlander patriotism, faithfulness and strong independence are remembered by the displaying of tartans and public parade of the clans to the sound of the bagpipe. While often celebrated on Reformation Sunday (the last Sunday in October), Kirkins are also celebrated on St. Andrew’s Day (the patron saint of Scotland) on November 30, and Tartan Day on April 6. In 1954, the Kirkin‘ service was moved to the National Cathedral (Episcopal) in Washington, home of the Episcopal diocese of Washington, where it is still held. In churches, and even at Scottish Highland Games, the Kirkin’ is celebrated by Scots, accompanied by prayer, scripture, preaching, blessing, bagpipe, and of course, the singing of Amazing Grace.
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EVENTS
Beware the gowk (and the tailie)
“dinnae laugh, dinnae smile, hunt the gowk another mile”
Gathering at Gold Coast CLAN Cameron will host a gathering at the Gold Coast from Friday April 20 until Sunday April 22 with a welcome event and Ceilidh to be held at the Southport RSL on the Friday night. The purpose of the gathering is to unite Camerons and motivate young people to become actively involved as proud ambassadors and future guardians of the Clan, and to bring Clan members together in a spirit of friendship. A drone-mounted camera will take a photograph of the gathering group on the Saturday at the RACV Royal Pines Resort where genealogists, three pipe bands and Scottish and Australian-flavoured presentations will be included in the entertainment. A closing ceremony and a forum to discuss the future direction of the Clan will take place on the Sunday. For further information visit www.clan-cameron.org.au or the Facebook page www.facebook.com/ ClanCameronGatheringAustralia.
APRIL FOOL’S jokes - you either love them or hate them, but in Scotland they’ve turned pranks into an art form. Hunting the Gowk (a gowk being a cuckoo or a foolish person) is practised on unsuspecting victims who are sent on a fool’s errand on April 1. The victim is asked to deliver a note without knowing the contents of the note. When he reaches his destination, the recipient opens the letter and reads “dinnae laugh, dinnae smile, hunt the gowk another mile”, at which point that person sends the victim on to another person, and so it goes until the poor person has run all over town trying to deliver the prank message. Fortunately, the jokes and pranks had to stop at midday, otherwise the perpetrators themselves became the April fools. Not content with one day of tomfoolery, the day following All Fools Day was known as Tailie Day when paper tails were attached to the backs of unsuspecting people as a joke. It would probably depend upon the mood of the victim on the day as to how funny they through the prank might be.
WHAT’S HAPPENING IN YOUR SCOTTISH ORGANISATION? Email the Editor at scotsnews@iinet.net.au by May 20 to have your event included in the June/July issue of Scots News Magazine.
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Canada and USA celebrate Tartan Day on April 6, in recognition of the signing of the Declaration of Arbroath "As long as but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we on any conditions be brought under English rule. It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours, that we are fighting, but for freedom - for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself". These are the best known words in the Declaration of Arbroath, foremost among Scotland's state papers and the most famous historical record held by National Records of Scotland. The Declaration is a letter written on April 6, 1320 by the barons and whole community of the kingdom of Scotland to the Pope, asking him to recognise Scotland's independence and acknowledge Robert the Bruce as the country's lawful king. The Declaration was written in Latin, and sealed by eight earls and 40 barons, during the long War of Independence with England which started with Edward I’s attempt to conquer Scotland in 1296. The Scots resisted and William Wallace led them to victory at Stirling Bridge in 1297. In 1306 Robert the Bruce seized the throne and began a long struggle to secure his position against internal and external threat. Despite his success at Bannockburn in 1314, when he defeated an English army under Edward II, the English still did not recognise Scotland’s independence or Bruce’s position as king. The Pope wrote to Edward II urging him to make peace, but it was not until 1328 that Scotland’s independence was finally acknowledged.
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NEWS Technology reveals secrets of ancient monuments
THE latest laser technology is being used by Historic Environment Scotland to reveal the secrets of some of Scotland’s mysterious ancient monuments. A detailed scan has been completed of the Pictish monument steles - the 21ft high Sueno’s Stone (digital image above) which stands near Forres in Moray. The images shed new light on intricate carvings and will now be examined by experts. Sueno’s Stone is described as the tallest and most complex piece of early medieval sculpture in Scotland, dating from either the ninth or 10th centuries. The stones would have once overlooked the flood plains of the rivers Mosse and Findhorn. Local legend has it that the monument stands at the crossroads where Macbeth originally met the three witches in Shakespeare’s portrayal of the Scottish king.
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Get yer Bletherin Bunnet on to play Bizzumbaw Harry Potter and his pals now speak Scots HARRY Potter novels have sold over 450 million copies, been made into eight blockbuster films and now translated into 80 languages with the release of the Scottish version of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stane. Translated by novelist, poet and co-founder of the award-winning imprint Itchy Coo Matthew Fitt (pictured below right), the Scottish version of author J K Rowling’s popular book will appeal to the 1.5 million people in Scotland who speak Scots. Fitt, in his forties, says he was ‘belted at school for using Scots’ which was not uncommon among those of his generation or older. He says the translation of the novel is a statement about the status of Scots which he hopes will boost the self-esteem of children. “If that is the way they speak in a Harry Potter book, it must be OK,” he said. In the Scottish version, the sport of Quidditch becomes Bizzumbaw - a bizzum/bessum is a broom as well as an insult, and baw means ball. The Sorting Hat becomes the Bletherin Bunnet. Albus Dumbledore is renamed Dumbiedykes, an in-joke for those who know that is an area of Edinburgh, the city were Rowling wrote the book. See an example of the Scots’ language version of the book (pictured right). Fitt is an acknowleded expert in the field of Scots language education and has delivered training for teachers in every local authority in Scotland. You can visit Matthew Fitt’s website at http:// www.mfitt.co.uk. To buy Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stane go to https://www.amazon.com/ Harry-Potter-Philosophers-StaneLanguage/dp/1785301543.
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COMPETITION WIN one these great CDs. All you have to do is email scotsnews@iinet.net.au by Friday April 6 with ‘competition’ in the subject line, to go into the draw. You can even nominate which CD you would like to win.
Under Yer Kilt CD with tracks including Come On Eileen, The Leaving of Liverpool and Donald Where’s Yer Troosers
ANNIVERSARIES IN SCOTTISH HISTORY April April 1 - “Hunt the Gowk” - Scottish equivalent of April Fool’s Day (gowk is a cuckoo). April 1, 1571 - Dumbarton Castle, under siege since January 1570, captured by Capt Thomas Crawford scaling the walls. April 4, 1406 - King Robert III died. James I ascended throne (but not crowned until 1424 as he was a prisoner of the English). April 4, 1508 - Production of the first printed book in Scotland with a definite date - a vernacular poem by John Lydgate The Complaint of the Black Knight. April 5, 1603 - King James VI leaves Edinburgh to travel to London. April 11, 1882 - Battle of the Braes in which crofters in Skye fought 50 policemen during a dispute over land rights. April 16, 1746 - Charles Edward Stewart defeated at Battle of Culloden. April 17, 1341 - Edinburgh Castle captured from the English. April 24, 1558 - Mary, Queen of Scots, married French Dauphin, Francis Valois (he was aged 14) at Notre Dame in Paris. April 27, 1296 - Scots defeated by Edward I at Battle of Dunbar.
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Crossing Over CD with tracks including Whisky in the Jar, Homeland and Hector The Hero
Tell Yer Ma CD with tracks including The Irish Rover, Raglan Road and Paddy on the Railway 8
May 1, 1522 - England declared war on both Scotland and France. May 2, 1424 - King James I crowned at Scone. May 3, 1557 - John Knox began the Reformation in Scotland. May 8, 1701 - Scottish-born pirate “Captain” William Kidd tried for piracy at London’s Old Bailey. He was hanged on 23 May. May 10, 1850 - Sir Thomas Lipton, founder of the Lipton’s grocery chain - a millionaire by age of 30 - born in Glasgow. May 12, 1725 - The Black Watch regiment was commissioned under General Wade to police the Highlands. May 13, 1568 - Mary, Queen of Scots, defeated at Battle of Langside. May 20, 685 - Battle of Dunnichen (also known as Nechtansmere), south of Forfar in Angus, as a result of which the Picts stopped the advance northwards of the Angles of Northumbria. May 20, 1747 - Edinburgh-born James Lind began a controlled experiment which demonstrated that citrus fruits could prevent scurvy, a disease contracted by sailors on long voyages. The lime juice which eventually became standard issue to British sailors gave rise to the term “limey” as a name for British overseas. May 24, 1852 - Robert Cunningham Graham born. Son of a Scottish laird, he organised the Scottish Labour Party with Kier Hardie, wrote over 30 travel books and was elected first president of the Scottish National Party. May 26, 1424 - The parliament convened by King James I approved the arrest of a number of the Scottish nobility and also banned the playing of football.
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FEATURE FOR over 125 years, the stately Tighnabruaich has overlooked the Brisbane River at Indooroopilly in the city’s west. Named for the village of the same name in Scotland (west of Glasgow and north of the Isle of Arran) and literally translated as ‘house on the hill’, the house has had many incarnations. The history of the house starts with two brothers who came to Brisbane from their birthplace of Edinburgh in Scotland. They were born a year apart and were sons of actor and painter Montague Stanley. The older brother, Francis Drummond Greville Stanley had studied and practised as an architect in Edinburgh prior to emigrating to Brisbane in late 1861. Upon arrival in Brisbane, he joined the Lands Department, becoming chief clerk of works to the Colonial Architect Charles Tiffin in 1863. His younger brother Henry Charles Stanley, an engineer, joined him in Brisbane around this time. Henry was an assistant engineer on the first railway line, became a railway engineer in 1866 and then Chief Engineer for Railways in 1872, by which time older brother Francis had been appointed Colonial Architect on the retirement of Charles Tiffin. In 1875 the first railway bridge across the river between Indooroopilly and Chelmer was constructed, but it was destroyed in the mammoth 1893 floods. A new bridge was designed by engineer HC Stanley, and opened in 1895. The bridge that HC Stanley designed had only a central pier rather than the multiple piers of the earlier bridge, thereby reducing the risk of damage from floodwaters and debris. HC Stanley had his eye on a large block of land near the railway line at Indooroopilly where he intended to build his residence,
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Tighnabruaich - house on the hill in Brisbane’s west - built for two Scottish architects
and hired his brother to design the two-storey Tighnabruaich. He had a suitable architect in the form of brother FDG Stanley who had marvellous buildings such as the National Bank, the Queensland Club and the GPO to his credit. He designed the decorative two-storey Tighnabruaich to take full advantage of its river views, with lots of steeply pitched gables containing multiple windows. In 1891, Henry Charles Stanley mortgaged the property to a Solomon Wiseman, and following Wiseman's death in 1901 the Stanley family vacated the house and the property was used as a boarding school until sold to wellknown Brisbane solicitor Herbert Hemming in 1904. The Hemming family owned the house until Herbert's death in 1942. The house was left empty for years and rumours started to spread that the house was haunted. During WWII the house was used by joint US-Australian intelligence and translation units and huts, interrogation rooms and cell blocks were constructed for their use. Many American servicemen resided in tents in the grounds of Tighnabruaich, and Japanese POWs were imprisoned and interrogated there.
The trustees of the Hemmings estate sold the property to the Commonwealth Government in 1945, and it continued to be occupied by the army after the war ended, under the new name of Witton Barracks. For almost fifty years it was the home of military brass until the grounds were subdivided in 1998 and the house and remaining land was sold to civilian owners. Today, the Brisbane City Council is set to transform the Witton Barracks into a green space as part of its $73-million green space plan. Historical buildings at 9 Lambert Rd will be preserved. Their aim is to make the site a park and a historical landmark for the suburb.
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BOOKS
Books by Scottish writers or set in Scotland
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The first in a detective series by Torquil MacLeod Torquil MacLeod was born in Edinburgh but his family hails from the Isle of Skye. His Viking ancestors settled in Scotland after one of their many raids from Norway, so he is blessed with a Scandinavian Christian name and Scottish surname. MacLeod has worked as a teacher, selling insurance and had a long stint as a copwriter in advertising agencies before becoming a freelance writer in 2000. He came up with the idea for his Malmo detective Inspector Anita Sundstrom after the elder of his two sons moved to southern Sweden. Meet Me In Malmo was originally written as a film script but was published as a hardback in 2010. There are now five Malmo Mystery novels and a novella in the popular series. The premise of this first book follows a British journalist who is invited to Malmo to interview an old university friend who has become of of Sweden’s leading film directors. When he discovers the director’s glamourous film star wife dead in her apartment, the Skane County Police are called in to solve the high-profile case.
https://www.amazon.com/Meet-MeMalm%C3%B6-Inspector-Sundstrom/dp/ 085716113X
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A children’s book by Megan Murray Megan Murray lives in Gourock Scotland, but it was on a visit to Australia working on a farm that she decided to take her love of books and turn it into a career. She studied English Language, Archaeology and Scottish History at the University of Glasgow, and it was here that she began to form the idea for her first children’s book. Maggie And The Magic Bookcase, which was published in September 2017, combines her love of Scotland with her love of books and adventure. Ten-year-old Maggie thinks that her Granda might be pulling her leg when he reveals that the huge bookcase in his living room is magical. It is not until they lay one of the books open on the carpet and jump inside that she starts to believe, and their adventure begins. The book is pitched at young readers to stretch their vocabulary and provide a hands-on history lesson. “The history of Scotland is a fascinating subject,” Ms Murray said. “I hope I’ve managed to do it justice and provide an introduction to the many interesting tales that make up our collective past.” https://www.amazon.com/Maggie-MagicBookcase-Prehistoric-Prologue/dp/ 1787231542
What happens when fourteen-year-old Abby Fletcher goes back in time and meets fourteenth-century Scotsmen? Throw in a telepathic dog, an ancient prophecy and two devious faeries and you have a book that is charming young (and not so young) readers across the world. When Abby and her family return to Scotland from the USA, she is swept into an ancient hex and finds herself suddenly transported back in time by a magical dog who is cursed and believes that Abby can set him free. The key to reversing the curse is contained in a poem or riddle and her fate rests in the hands of The Red King. She sets off to explore a nearby Scottish mountainside to search for clues. What Abby doesn’t realise, however, is that it’s not a matter of where she will find her answers, but when. Ms McIntyre immersed herself in the worlds of Xanth and Narnia when she was a child, and dreamed of one day creating her own magical world for others to enjoy. This book took first place in the Young Adult category at the 2016 Purple Dragonfly Awards. The Phantom of Faerie Mountain is full of Scottish mythology and atmospheric, mystical scenes and is the first book in the Red King Trilogy. The Secret of Berry Brae Circle is also available. https://www.amazon.com/PhantomFaerie-Mountain-King-Trilogy-ebook/ dp/B00WPZZ8F0
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CALENDAR OF EVENTS WHAT’S ON IN APRIL and MAY
April 4 to 15 - Commonwealth Games at Gold Coast April 5 - Breabach Folk Band at the Old Museum, Gregory Terrace, Bowen Hills in Brisbane, presented by the Woodford Folk Festival. More information from www.oldmuseum.org/event/breabach. April 7 - Australian Pipe Band Championships hosted by Pipe Bands Queensland to be held at Brisbane Boys’ College in Toowong Brisbane. www.tartanspectacular.com.au. April 20 to 22 - Australian Clan Cameron Gathering at the Gold Coast. www.clan-cameron.org.au.
WHAT’S COMING UP June 16 - Townsville Scottish Community hosts Clansmen’s Ceilidh from 6pm to 9pm at the PCYC,Wellington St Aitkenvale. Enquiries to Marie Gibson at 0413 456 542. June 17 - Townsville Scottish Community hosts Tartan Day from 8.30am to 1pm at the Cotters Market in Flinders Mall. Enquiries to Marie Gibson at 0413 456 542. July 14 - Bluewater Fling in Mackay August 25 - Toowoomba Caledonian Society and Pipe Band Inc will host a Ceilidh at Drayton Hall from 7pm. Bookings to Marg on 0429 700 217.
April 28 - Redland Sporting Club Band Contest April 29 - Scottish Clan Congress of Queensland presents the Kirkin’ o’ the Tartan at St Paul’s Presbyterian Church Spring Hill from 9am. May 19 - World Whisky Day
Se pte mber 22 - BBC Solo and Mini Band Contest at Brisbane Boys College, Toowong. November 24 - Toowoomba Caledonian Society and Pipe Band Inc will host a St Andrew’s Night at Drayton Hall from 7pm. Bookings to Marg on 0429 700 217.
May 19 - Sunshine Coast Pipe Band Contest at Yandina United Football Club, 6 North St, Yandina. www.pipebandsqld.org. May 26 - Toowoomba Caledonian Society and Pipe Band Inc will host a Ceilidh at Drayton Hall from 7pm. Bookings to Marg on 0429 700 217.
INTERSTATE IN 2018 NEW SOUTH WALES April 7 - Bundanoon Highland Gathering including strong man competitions. www.brigadoon.org.au.
Small Pipe learning and playing held at Milton on the first Tuesday of each month from 7pm. Contact Malcolm on 3820 2902 or Ken on 3279 4093.
May 3 to 6 - Australian Celtic Festival at the Australian Standing Stones in Glen Innes. www.australiancelticfestival.com.
Gaelic classes are held each month in Brisbane. Visit www.facebook.com/BrisbaneGaelic for details.
October 20 to 21 - Outlander Fan Gathering at the Australian Standing Stones when the clocks will turn back to 1743. Only 600 places available. www.outlanderfangathering.com.au. March 22 to 25, 2018 - Clan Donald hosting ANZAC Forum in Chrustchurch New Zealand. Email anzacforum@gmail.com.
SCOTTISH TUNES AND CONVERSATION ON THE RADIO Join Ron Tannock every Thursday night from 7pm to 9.30pm and every second Saturday from 9am to noon for the Sounds of Ireland (and Scotland), on Burnett River Radio 91.5FM broadcasting to Gayndah and Central Burnett region. Colin Nightingale hosts Acoustic Harvest every second Thursday night at 8pm on bayFM100.3. Enjoy ‘A wee bit o’ Scotland on Thursday’ on 4EBFM98.1 from 2.15pm to 4.30pm. Scottish Program on Global Digital Radio (4EB) each Sunday from 2pm to 3pm. Triple T 103.9 Townsville Community Radio’s Scottish Program each Sunday from 3pm to 5pm with Don MacDonald.
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Scots News Magazine April/May 2018