Secrets of a Long Life

James Hogg – a shepherd from the Ettrick area in the Scottish Border country – wrote in previous times that “if a body knew the exact quantity/ of whisky to take each day and stuck to that dose, I verily trow that he might leave for ever, and that doctors and Kirlryards (Church graveyards) would go out o’…

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Scotch Whisky Sales Down

Many people in Scotland laboured under the impression that the world wide sales of Scotch Whisky would keep on rising forever. How so ? Nothing keeps on rising forever, and it is disturbing to learn that the so called “Scottish Government” is now embracing this old industry like hugging a little baby, now that they…

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