They only threatened to go to Scotland, but once one super spy’s done it, can any of the others follow suit without seeming like super copycats?
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Does anyone really need an excuse to go to Scotland?
(Except maybe in the dead of winter.)
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Kilt shopping?
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Whiskey sampling?
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If you think the glens and munros are beautiful in the summer, they are positively haunting in the winter snow, ken?
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Does the darkness and chill not get to you? And what about the lack of fresh local produce? Can one live on beautiful vistas alone?
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You can certainly drink them in but didn’t I read somewhere that you can survive on Guinness and Tomato-Ketchup flavoured crisps/chips alone?
(something to do with the amino acids in the tomato flavouring)
Also, Seasonal Affective Disorder is real, isn’t that why we value comfort food and strong drink a little too much?
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Did you know my kid is looking at St. Andrews for college? Did she grow to love the country from having visited with her mother?
Can you believe that when I went to Bhutan in the late 1980’s, my immediate reaction was “I’m at home here, because it reminds me of Scotland”?
And can you believe I have absolutely no British heritage of any type? Did Scotland have to earn my admiration, rather than expect it as a birthright?
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I know a few people who studied there and found the sparsity of busy, city life a major plus for getting their heads down to work but can’t you get from pretty much anywhere in Scotland to anywhere else in Scotland in less than 6 hours if you fancy ‘geein it laldy’?
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Did you know my cousin went there at the same time as Bonnie Prince Willy?
Isn’t it quite a dull (if picturesque) little town?
Didn’t I also have an uncle stationed just down the road at RAF Leuchars (and also RAF Lossiemouth, years later)?
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Can you get anywhere from there via train, since car ownership wouldn’t be in the cards?
And how grateful am I, to get that first-person account of what it’s like to be a student in that location?
Trains are pretty good in Scotland, much faster, on the whole, than driving and student tickets are fairly cheap if I remember correctly, do I? One second… (?)
Yeah £30 for a whole year and you get 30% off every ticket… also there’s a huge discount if you buy your tickets in advance from websites like the.trainline… uh… y’dig?
Ah seems trainline doesn’t do extra student discounts, been nearly a couple of decades since I did all this, but aren’t there definitely decent travel options for students? yes, but non declaratively?
Can we break the 7000 comment barrier today?
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I don’t know - CAN WE?
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Was Christopher Lee fucking great or what?
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Like this: “People never thought I would be a heavy metal performer. Well, I am.”?
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