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Dinna Fash Yersel Scotland! - Scottish Grannies' Sayings for Challenging Times - cover

Dinna Fash Yersel Scotland! - Scottish Grannies' Sayings for Challenging Times

Allan Morrison

Publisher: Luath Press

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Summary

These are tough times. Prices spiralling! Climate change! International tension! Pandemics! It's not hard to find things to worry about.
But Scottish grannies can be an oasis of calm. Their wit and wisdom, their compassion and knowhow, their measured good sense and withering reproaches are exactly what is required.
Scottish grannies are reassuring. They are relevant. And they need to be heard.
Available since: 12/30/2022.
Print length: 160 pages.

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