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This ("Tae a Moose") was one of those poems we used to have to recite at primary school in Scotland in a poetry competition round about this time of year to mark (Robert) Burns day. I don't think I ever fully understood what it was all about at the time but I more or less get it now. The moose in the picture seems to get it so that's all that matters!

We stayed at a wonderful Landmark Trust called Gargunnock, near Stirling in Scotland.  Molly, my niece, had some holiday homework and she spent one evening interviewing the guests about their childhoods. This was sent to the son of one of our party.

I cut this little story out of the paper a week or two ago intending to render it into mailart and so here it is! The story reads as follows:

"Lovestruck Liu Peiwen has taken his Proclaimers-mad fiancée at her word and is walking 1,000 miles just to fall down at her door. When the 29-year old proposed to Ling Hsueh, 23, she accepted but joked it was on condition he followed the Scottish band's hit 500 Miles. She was shocked when Mr Liuset off on a walk from Henan province to her hometown in Guagndong province in south-east China, 1,600km (1,000 miles) away. "He is such a fruitcake," she said.

Apart from the fruitcake reference I think I got it all in and I've even added some Scottish and Chinese themed stamps to finish it off postally!

Oh and for those who don't know the song here it is - http://youtu.be/Gy4UP_dCjAk

More of my digital bits & pieces combined to make a piece.

A gateway through a magical library into a land of castles and lakes!

Found this lovely photo of heather in Scotland, & just couldn't leave it alone (of course)! The figure is by Waterhouse!