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Archive for ‘November, 2001’

Changing Faces 2

Well, since we launched the FREE British Expat virtual makeover just a short while back we’ve been inundated with enquiries and requests. Someone was so enthusiastic…

A pine to piddle against

“In my new garden, which is in fact a piece of wasteland with a fence round it, I have no trees. I possess only a few stunted and windswept hawthorn and elder. Barely half a mile from the Pentland Firth, whence the north wind blows uninterrupted straight from the Arctic Circle, this is not exactly a horticultural paradise.” Mike tells us about one of Scotland’s most distinctive trees – the Scots Pine – and some of its cousins.