Sinister Nursery Rhymes

“Half a pound of tuppenny rice, Half a pound of treacle, That’s the way the money goes, Pop! goes...

One would expect that this place has been entirely avoided since the outbreak of the Covid 19 Pandemic. You...

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall Humpty Dumpty had a great fall All the king’s horses and all the...

Trial marriages were very common in Scotland, up to the fifteenth century. This custom was known as, ” handfasting...

“Mary, Mary quite contrary, How does your garden grow ? With silver bells and cockle shells And pretty maids...

The earliest mention of this custom appears to come from the Celts in the early eighteenth century. It seems...

Scotland was a dominate Roman Catholic country, so it is no revelation, to learn that the, “cross” figured a...

Towards the end of the 1800’s coal miners in Kelty, Fife, Scotland, would run home with lumps of coal, ‘rakers’ & ‘clugs’, at the end...