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Flippant Friday

2011/03/04 in Bagging Scotland News, Flippant Friday

Another helping of regular Friday Flippancy, plucked from the happenings in Scotland this week.

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Just Another Manic Monday

2011/02/28 in Manic Monday, Scottish History

As Friday was too hectic (more on this later) we’ve decided to re-name our regular, weekly update  ’Flippant Friday’ to ‘Manic Monday’ for this week only. Here’s our wee update of purely Scottish things which have caught our eye… Read the rest of this entry →

Flippant Friday

2011/02/18 in Flippant Friday

As you’ll see, Flippant Friday is upon us again. It’s Bagging Scotland’s biased and thinly-researched roundup of the week’s more Scottish moments. Cancel your newspaper and magazine subscriptions because all the fodder you’re ever going to need for your weekend pub argument is right here. No need to thank us – we’re a true public service for Scotland, we’re only doing our job.

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Prestonpans- unlikely setting for a Scottish hero?

2011/02/15 in Bagging Scotland News, Edinburgh, Highlands, Inverness, Scotland, Scottish History, Skye

If you’ve visited Prestonpans, just outside Edinburgh, you’d probably agree with us that it’s a fairly unremarkable place. However, if a high-profile Scottish Author has his way, it’s set to be home to the World’s longest tapestry.

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Valentine’s a Burns sort of day

2011/02/14 in Bagging Scotland News

You could be forgiven for thinking that Valentine’s Day is something dreamed-up by card manufacturers in Victorian times, to enable them to sell their expensive, hand-made, love tokens. Well, it sort of was !

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Flippant Friday

2011/02/11 in Flippant Friday, Scotland

First Edition of our lighter look at what’s been happening in Scotland this week and things that caught our eye.

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The Saviours of Scottish Tourism

2011/02/01 in Bagging Scotland News

We’ve just begun working with the BA Business (Hons) students at the University of Strathclyde. The team we’re working with are specialising in Marketing and Entrepreneurship and are helping us on an extensive strategic project, to take Bagging Scotland to the next stage.

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New Year – New Happenings

2011/01/24 in Bagging Scotland News

Mid January already and as you’ll notice we’re evolving Bagging Scotland, to incorporate a number of new aspects. With video becoming increasingly important, we’re going to be focusing on this a lot more in 2011.

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A protected species

2010/12/12 in Bagging Scotland News

This year, we’ve been getting about some of Scotland’s most remote islands and we intend to visit ALL of Scotland’s remotest places. So, we were really interested when one of our Bagging chums the lovely Abby at Shetland My Love came up with (another) really great blog about Fair Isle.

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Somebody Is Snow Longer My M8

2010/12/07 in Bagging Scotland News

It seems unbelievable that in 21st Century Scotland, someone could be stuck in their car, for 10 hours, in freezing conditions, on Scotland’s main, M8 Motorway.

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