Tag: tartan
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Pastries, broccoli, tartan skirt, and carrot lox
Foodstory Café in Aberdeen have started making sourdough pastry. Their sourdough bread is already well-known in Aberdeen for its deliciousness so we decided to sample the sourdough pastry, strictly for academic purposes. Foodstory is still only open for takeaways but not long now – they’ll be allowed to open fully at the end of this […]
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Tartan face masks
Nicola Sturgeon has been wearing a tartan facemask which I thought was very nice. I’m not sure where she got hers but I found a shop selling them online (ScotClans) and ordered some for us. They’re made in Scotland come with a PM 2.5 filter. You can have them made with any tartan you like. […]
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Lochcarron Weavers and Strome Castle
Yesterday was rainy and so we had a lazy day and pottered around Loch Carron. We spent an hour in the Lochcarron Weavers Shop. They have over 500 tartans and lots of knitted garments. This is my kind of shop! Daniel spoke to one of the shop assistants at length about Martin tartan. They don’t […]
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My new obsession: blankets
Blankets: they need a higher profile. The world needs more blankets. Lately I have become a bit obsessed with blankets. I love my tartan skirt so much – and it’s basically a big woolly blanket – that I decided to get myself another. Here’s the new one: A close-up of the fabric since my photo isn’t very […]