Off to Bucks Green village hall this morning for the monthly meeting of NADFAS. Speaker Douglas Skeggs - the talk "Peter the Great" Quite riveting particularly when its easy to slip into the idea that history starts and ends with England The NADFAS speaking "season" runs from October through to July and provide a comprehensive lecture programme on art and related topics. The speaker today was one of the best.
There was an item on BBC Radio 4 Today programme just before Christmas that still rankles with me. It seems that the whisky producers of Scotland have become concerned that other countries throughout the world are producing whisky and calling it "scotch". I can understand them being peeved. However, and according to the spokesperson for the the Scottish Whisky Producers Association, the way round the problem is for detailed protective legislation to be passed through Westminster, and this is what will happen. Frankly I am not against protection being sought, but why Westminster? What is the Scottish Parliament for?
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