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In your February Scottish Field
In This Month...
January 2012
As the nights draw in and it gets increasingly chilly, it’s the
time of year for contemplation of the year that has just
passed and excitement at the year ahead. There’s little doubt
that 2011 presented many challenges, but the example of
Linda Norgrove’s parents, Lewis crofters John and Lorna,
shows how we can fashion something worthwhile out of
even the most distressing of situations.
The Norgroves’ story is deeply inspiring. It is now just
over a year since their kidnapped
daughter, 36-year-old aid worker
Linda, was killed in Afghanistan
during a rescue attempt by
American special forces. The
natural reaction would be to rail against the world, to apportion blame, to seek retribution and to dissolve
into bitterness. Yet instead the Norgroves chose the path less travelled. Even in the hours immediately
after her death, they forced themselves to focus on what their daughter would have wanted.
The knowledge that she would have asked them to finish what she had started has, they say, given
them the strength to throw themselves into setting up a foundation to continue Linda’s work. In that they
have been outstandingly successful, committing a lot of their savings but raising even more besides.
Throughout, they have conducted themselves with enormous dignity and a complete lack of self-pity.
As our writer Anna Burnside and photographer Leila Frank – herself a childhood friend of Linda’s in
Stornoway – discovered, theirs is an example of what we can achieve when we think positively and
focus not on what we no longer have, but on the blessings that we can still count.
Happy reading.
Richard Bath,
Editor.
As the nights draw in and it gets increasingly chilly, it’s the
time of year for contemplation of the year that has just
passed and excitement at the year ahead. There’s little doubt
that 2011 presented many challenges, but the example of
Linda Norgrove’s parents, Lewis crofters John and Lorna,
shows how we can fashion something worthwhile out of
even the most distressing of situations.The Norgroves’ story is deeply inspiring. It is now just over a year since their kidnapped daughter, 36-year-old aid worker Linda, was killed in Afghanistan during a rescue attempt by American special forces. The natural reaction would be to rail against the world, to apportion blame, to seek retribution and to dissolve into bitterness. Yet instead the Norgroves chose the path less travelled. Even in the hours immediately after her death, they forced themselves to focus on what their daughter would have wanted. The knowledge that she would have asked them to finish what she had started has, they say, given them the strength to throw themselves into setting up a foundation to continue Linda’s work. In that they have been outstandingly successful, committing a lot of their savings but raising even more besides.
Throughout, they have conducted themselves with enormous dignity and a complete lack of self-pity. As our writer Anna Burnside and photographer Leila Frank – herself a childhood friend of Linda’s in Stornoway – discovered, theirs is an example of what we can achieve when we think positively and focus not on what we no longer have, but on the blessings that we can still count.
Happy reading.
Richard Bath, Editor.
Kidnapped Scottish aid worker Linda Norgrove died when the mission to save her went terribly wrong. Now, a year on, her parents are determined that some good should come from the tragedy.
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An insider's guide to...
Glasgow, Edinburgh, Perth and Abderdeen seen though the eyes of those who know them and love them give you some great ideas about what to see and do on a winter city break.
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Happy hunting ground...
Celebrating 225 years of existence this year the Fife Foxhounds are still going strong. Scottish Field joined them at their celebratory meet.
At times, the project to renovate crumbling Roshven House at Lochailort has been a nightmare but after four years of hard work it is at last a story with a fairytale ending.
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Ducking and diving...
The much-loved eider duck is a conservation success story, but its insatiable appetite for Scotland's finest shellfish has made it a raft of new enemies.
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In excess....
Banish the pain and nausea of a heavy night this festive season with these good, not so good and downright wierd hangover cures including some peculiarlarly Scottish ones.
We have over £3000 in luxury breaks to be won plus junior membership of Gleneagles Equestrian School and Pony Club.
Going with the flow - meet long distance swimmer from Perth - Colleen Blair who became the first person to swim the Pentland Firth.
We also meet Catriona Shearer - BBC broadcaster and journalist
Plus all the latest Scottish Food news, What's selling in the antiques world, Country news, Puzzle pages, Reader hotel reviews, Social pages and motoring and restaurant reviews and much more in every issue.
The same year as the Forth Bridge was completed, plans were drawn up for an even more ambitious rail crossing from Scotland to Ireland - under the sea!
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The secret of the stones...
Rosslyn Chapel might be getting back to its magnificent best thanks to a £9 million restoration project, but the old church still has mysteries to give up like the two ancient skeletons buried under the floor.
Fiona Burrell of the Edinburgh New Town Cookery School provides us with the recipes for four gorgeously warming winter soups to see you through those long cold winter days.
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Gift Guide...
Stuck at the last minute for the perfect Christmas gift for someone? Fear not help is at hand in the shape of our 'Last minute Christmas gift guide'. Sorted!
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