The 13 Covid-19 Correspondent Published by The Inchmarlo Social Forum Proprietor: Della Russell Editor: Phil Allen Issue 13: 17 June 2020 Special Edition: Scotland in Lockdown
Dolphins have returned to Italy! Meanwhile in Scotland…
Scotland in Spring Scotland in Summer Scotland in Autumn Scotland in Lockdown
Scottish kids return to school after home-taught history lessons Lockdown Requiem Mr and Mrs Skene’s Cure for Lockdown Blues
Sitting, thinking, watching, waiting, (Entertainment Video of the Week) Day of week and month of year, Instructions: Copy & paste the blue text below into your browser’s address Twelve weeks in with more impending, bar. Alternatively place the curser over the blue text and hold down the Brave Scotland's lockdown, Requiem. control key whilst clicking with the mouse. (This could avoid the ads.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTlMj9EgFDM Do`s and don'ts with `S` all starting Amazing! A new meaning to the phrase “opera glasses” Stay at home, away, apart, Thank you, Alison and Charles Skene. I hope you approve this version. Social distance, pole dependent, `S` word for living, nowhere now. Scottish Banter: • I was out for a walk in Crathes Castle gardens and saw the Coronavirus New friends discovered, neighbours helping, heading towards me. Thanks to the government advice of staying Disciplined folk, bonding, proud, alert, I hid behind a tree and it totally missed me. Thanks Boris. Old friends appear in weekly shopping, • Two people found sunbathing in Scotland today have tested for Remy, Gordon, Jack et. al. hypothermia.
• An Englishman, an Irishman and a Scotsman walk into a bar. So, if you feel sad and sorry, Those were the days… Rewind your mind to happier times, • My husband purchased a world map. He gave me a dart and said, Auld Scotia's grit, determination, “Throw this and wherever it lands I’m taking you for a holiday when Will wipe it out, this Covid curse. this pandemic is over.” Turns out we’re spending two weeks in Torry. ANON • We’re all going to survive Covid 19, then die overdoing the Received via Don Black. Thank you. celebrations once it’s all over. It’s the Scottish way.
Puzzle Corner Family History with Margaret Mystery Scottish Towns and Villages Back in Issue 4, we looked at the website Scotland’s People at https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk 1. TO FLOWER AT BACK Here are more details. Scotland’s People records include: 2. USE DEAR MILK • Old Parish Records (Church Records) from late 17th century 3. JOG RON A SHOT (depending on the parish) to 1855 and include: Baptisms, Banns 4. BEAT CLOWN M.P. and Marriages and some Deaths and Burials. 5. TINSEL TOWN • Statutory Records (Civil Registration Records) from 1855 to 6. RUINS A COTE present day and include: Births, Marriages and Deaths. 7. IN FLORAL BADGE • Census Returns for Scotland: 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871,1881, 1891, 8. I MAKE DRINK 1901, 1911. These give details of each person staying at an address 9. BREACH RIDER when the census was recorded including: their age, birth-place, 10. DEEP EARTH occupation and relationship to the head of the household. 11. BREAK LIT SIDE • Valuation Rolls at 10 yearly intervals from 1855 to 1930 which give 12. TENTH PRIME FOOT details of households on a particular date. 13. FED BARLEY • Legal Records including Wills from the 18th century to 1925. Registration and searches are free, but a charge is made if you want 14. TRACTOR TO HELP to look at a record. (e.g. £1.50 per record.) Credits are bought online. 15. MARLED SCOT Happy Searching, Margaret Bradley
Famous Women Answers to the quiz in Issue 12. Dear Della 1. Pearl Bailey served as a special ambassador to the United Nations. Inchmarlo’s Finest 2. Maria Sklodowska is better known as Marie Curie. 3. Lord Darnley married Mary, Queen of Scots. Dear Della 4. June Brown (playing Dot Cotton) carried an entire episode of East Twice recently, I have walked in on my son while he Enders single handed. was putting on his kilt. He seemed unreasonably upset 5. “Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.” Margaret Thatcher. – which I found hurtful. After all, I’ve seen it all before. 6. Margaret Mead, Isabella, Maria Celeste and Cleopatra are names of What should I do? craters on Venus. (All the features on Venus are named after women). Aggie from Auchterarder 7. Serena Williams won the Wimbledon mixed doubles with Max Mirnyi in 1998. Dear Aggie, 8. Anne Bronte wrote “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall”. 9. Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic. Knock. 10. The Bangles had a hit with the song “Walk like an Egyptian”. Della